Houston PHP Users Group

Meet other local users and developers of PHP, one of the most popular scripting languages for the Web. We have monthly meetings which include both PHP and MySQL related topics.

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Past events

  • Houston PHP Users Group Monthly Meetup

    Fri, 4 Mar 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Houston, United States

    Guys,We will do a code heavy session this month to go through best practices in building up your custom framework for web sites and applications. I will show you how I usually build a new project from scratch, including going over versioning control, directory structures, common classes and templating systems.

  • Houston PHP Users Group Monthly Meetup

    Fri, 11 Feb 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Houston, United States

    Guys,We will do a code heavy session this month to go through best practices in building up your custom framework for web sites and applications. I will show you how I usually build a new project from scratch, including going over versioning control, directory structures, common classes and templating systems.

  • Houston PHP Users Group April Meetup

    1-2 Apr 2010 in Houston, United States

    Let's talk about AJAX and PHP this month! We will go over best practices for writing AJAX components in PHP, and also how to interact with the server using jQuery and Prototype, two extremely popular (and free!) JavaScript libraries.Come with your questions so we can go over typical problems when building AJAX-powered web applications with PHP and JavaScript.

  • Houston PHP Users Group March Meetup

    Fri, 5 Mar 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Houston, United States

    Join Zain Naboulsi, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, as we take a tour of PHP on Windows. This overview session will discuss the various products that are PHP-specific and supply a solid foundation for further exploration into the PHP on Windows scenario.

  • Houston PHP Users Group February Meetup

    Fri, 5 Feb 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Houston, United States

    Join Zain Naboulsi, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, as we take a tour of PHP on Windows. This overview session will discuss the various products that are PHP-specific and supply a solid foundation for further exploration into the PHP on Windows scenario.

  • Houston PHP Users Group January Meetup

    Fri, 8 Jan 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Houston, United States

    Join Zain Naboulsi, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, as we take a tour of PHP on Windows. This overview session will discuss the various products that are PHP-specific and supply a solid foundation for further exploration into the PHP on Windows scenario.

  • Houston PHP Users Group November Meetup

    Fri, 6 Nov 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Houston, United States

    JavaScript is the world's most popular programming language, but it is often misunderstood and a source of confusion. Join cPanel UI Developer Chris Oakman in this 30 minute talk as he explains what everyone in the hosting industry should know about JavaScript. The talk will escalate technically, starting off with the basics and ending with a simple example of a XSS (cross-site scripting) attack. This talk is aimed at technical and non-technical people alike.

  • Houston PHP Users Group October Meetup

    1-2 Oct 2009 in Houston, United States

    Guys, I don't have a volunteer to do a presentation yet, so I'm planning on doing a presentation about Git (the version control system) on the meeting. This is a great piece of open-source software for developers, and very easy to use once you get the hang of it. Chris Oakman did a presentation in April 2009 about a great website he was working on, and mentioned how great Git was in passing.

  • Houston PHP Users Group September Meetup

    3-4 Sep 2009 in Houston, United States

    Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP language, will be in Houston in June and graciously volunteered to do a presentation to our group! Sorry about the last minute modification, but we will need to move our meeting from our usual date/time to Wednesday June 10th at 6:00pm. The presentation details below from Rasmus himself:------------Architecture, Performance, Optimization and Security.

  • Houston PHP Users Group August Meetup

    6-7 Aug 2009 in Houston, United States

    Let's review the tools and techniques described by Rasmus Lerdorf at our June meetup, and go over step by step instructions on how to use them to properly measure the performance of your web sites and applications.

  • Houston PHP Users Group July Meetup

    2-3 Jul 2009 in Houston, United States

    Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP language, will be in Houston in June and graciously volunteered to do a presentation to our group! Sorry about the last minute modification, but we will need to move our meeting from our usual date/time to Wednesday June 10th at 6:00pm. The presentation details below from Rasmus himself:------------Architecture, Performance, Optimization and Security.I take a look at the performance of some popular PHP applications and go

  • Houston PHP Users Group June Meetup

    4-5 Jun 2009 in Houston, United States

    Clint Valusek will give a presentation on how to setup your development environment to make it easier to implement your projects. Here are some of the topics that he sent over email: "- How I personally set up my local copy of apache and virtual host for easy local development. Keep this very quick but give some conf files for reference. - Also very briefly, how I personally set up my local copy of mysql for easy development.

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