A full day seminar presented by Chris Shiflett This workshop is being coordinated by Dr. Vance Wilson, Assistant Professor in the MIS area at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

Overview

This workshop will focus on the PHP programming language and its evolution from a set of tools used for personal home page development to the worlds most popular web programming language. The morning sessions will introduce PHP, including its history, its future, and its philosophy. The afternoon session is more technical and will cover secure programming practices with PHP.

Topics

Topics PHP Overview - Despite being more than a decade old, PHP has been gaining a great deal of attention in the past year within the enterprise business community as an emerging technology. This session covers PHP’s history and brings you up to speed with PHP as a leading web programming language and platform. You will learn how PHP works, how it fits into the web paradigm, and a few of the reasons for PHP’s impressive growth. "The PHP Way" - Java and .NET have long held important roles within the enterprise business community. However, the big technology companies such as Yahoo, Amazon, and Google have been using other technologies to build their critical applications. Web 2.0 companies such as del.icio.us, Flickr, and Technorati are all built with PHP and other open source tools. This session covers “the PHP way” of solving problems and why this simple and direct approach has been so successful. Web Application Security - One of the common criticisms of PHP is that it is not secure. Although this reputation is undeserved, it is important to realize that PHP is very flexible and powerful. With great power comes great responsibility. This session covers the young and evolving discipline of web application security. You will see how many of the most common and dangerous attacks work and what safeguards you can implement to help protect your PHP applications from them.

About the speaker

Chris Shiflett is the founder and president of Brain Bulb, a PHP consultancy that offers a variety of services to clients around the world. Chris, a leader in the PHP community, is the founder of the PHP Security Consortium, the founder of PHPCommunity.org, a member of the Zend PHP Advisory Board, and an author of the Zend PHP Certification. A prolific writer, Chris has regular columns in both PHP Magazine and php|architect. He is also the author of the HTTP Developer’s Handbook (Sams) as well as the critically acclaimed Essential PHP Security (O’Reilly).

Who should Attend?

The morning sessions (PHP Overview and "The PHP Way") are appropriate for anyone interested in PHP. The topics covered are general and descriptive. The afternoon session, however, is more technical and targets web programmers and anyone interested in learning more about web application security.

Coordinator

Dr. Vance Wilson, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will coordinate this workshop.