August 2011

As President of our local PHP User’s Group (Atlantic Canada PHP User Group) it is my great pleasure to organize and plan our quarterly meetings. We have been operating for almost 3 years now and each July we have our social event. This year we added in a fun golf tournament as well.

Last time we looked at a basic class definition that produced some HTML tags for us. In this second part we will take you further into some definitions of OOP as it stands in PHP; then we will build out our code example to prove our theories in practice.

The first thing to look at this time is the topic of scope in the sense of properties (defined variables) in a class. There are 4 basic scope levels, and they are:

The recently held OSCON 2011 Convention in Portland, OR was a fantastic experience for the OSSCube team. This conference gave me the opportunity to meet and speak with many technology evangelists around the world. I delivered a major presentation on SmartWorks Project (a federal level use system that OSSCube has helped design and roll out) during day two of the event while the, President Lavanya Rastogi and Head of Business Development & Customer Advocacy Vivek Agrawal alternated booth staffing duty and new business prospect meetings throughout the event.