Sebastian Bergmann

There will be a LAMP Area again at this year's LinuxTag, which will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany from June 22 to June 25.

June 23 will be the "LAMP Day": a full day of presentations covering the state of the world that is Apache, MySQL, and PHP.

I will give a presentation titled "PHP 5 - Ein Jahr danach" which will give an overview of software packages that were ported from Java to PHP 5 in the year after the release of PHP 5: PHPUnit2, Phing, Creole, and Propel.

My second presentation, "PHP 5 - The Year After", here at the International PHP Conference 2005 - Spring Edition is over. I chose PHPUnit, Phing, Creole, and Propel as examples for projects that leverage the new language features introduced in PHP 5. These examples also show that with PHP 5 it is possible to take ideas from the Java world and implement them in PHP.

The presentation material I used can be found here.

I will present two sessions at the International PHP Conference 2005 - Spring Edition in May.

PHP 5 - The Year After

The year after the release of PHP 5 brought a swing of solutions and tools ported from Java. This session gives an overview of these software packages and introduces the audience to tools like PHPDocumentor, PHPUnit, Phing, Creole, and Propel that aid in the development of object-oriented PHP applications.

PHPUnit - An Introduction to Unit Testing PHP Applications

PHPUnit supports the development of object-oriented PHP applications using the concepts and methods of Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development and Design-by-Contract Development by providing an elegant and robust framework for the creation, execution and analysis of Unit Tests. This session will introduce the audience with the concept of Unit Testing and familiarize it with PHPUnit.

A couple of Java bloggers (Steve, Stefan) have discovered Phing, which is Apache Ant ported to PHP.

I myself have ported JUnit from Java to PHP (PHPUnit) and know of ports of JavaDoc (phpDocumentor), JDBC (Creole), and Apache Torque (Propel).

What I would like to see is support for PHP and PHPUnit in Apache Maven (or a Maven-like application based on DOAP) and DamageControl.

Do you know of other frameworks or tools that have been ported from Java to PHP? Post them in a comment to this entry!