Slides from the talk at http://www.meetup.com/GTA-PHP-User-Group-Toronto/events/151672182/ Source code for the demo at https://github.com/zymsys/Slim-RedBeanPHP-KnockoutJS

1. Knockout.js
With Minimal PHP
by Vic Metcalfe

2. Minimal Framework
Slim is 3.2MB
Symfony is
50MB

3. Minimal Framework
<?php
$app = new SlimSlim();
$app->get('/hello/:name', function ($name) {
echo "Hello, $name";
});
$app->run();

4. Minimal ORM
325K
B
RedBeanPHP is 8.8MB
Doctrine is 9.2MB

5. Minimal ORM
$post = R::dispense('post');
$post->text = 'Hello World';
$id = R::store($post);
//Create or Update
$post = R::load('post',$id); //Retrieve
R::trash($post);
//Delete

6. Minimal JavaScript
Knockout is 46KB
Angular is 100KB

7. Minimal JavaScript

8. Symfony
Doctrine
Angular

10. No MVC
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11. Slim: Git R’ Done
Authentication?
Content Negotiation?
Middleware
Middleware
Massage Input Data?
Page
Generation!
Content Negotiation?
Decoration?
Caching?

12. Knockout: MVVM
Model
M odel
View
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ViewModel
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How your PHP represents your data
HTML with data-bind attributes
Two way binding of data and
UI

13. The Demo

14. Knockout is Testable
JavaScript!
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ViewModel must be a class
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Sinon is helpful for testing AJAX

15. Slim is Testable!
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Create your own App class
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Create an invoke method:
public function invoke() {
$this->middleware[0]->call();
$this->response()->finalize();
return $this->response();
}

16. RedBeanPHP is
almost Testable!
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Use in-memory sqlite:
public function setUp()
{
R::setup('sqlite::memory:');
require('seed.php');
}
public function tearDown()
{
R::close();
}

17. Thanks Y’All!
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Demo source available at:
https://github.com/zymsys/Slim-RedBeanPHP-KnockoutJS
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I rarely tweet @v_metcalfe
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I even more rarely blog:
http://blog.vicmetcalfe.com/