Undercover code—supporting PHP with non-web tools

English session

Many web applications need some sort of support system that functions outside of the normal HTTP-based infrastructure. Sometimes, you simply need to schedule a job that runs at certain times of the day (with cron), but other, more resource-intensive operations, might require you to push operations out to a cluster of cloud servers (with gearman). From creating daemons with supervisord or jobs that run in inetd without any user-facing socket code, to processing inbound mail with PHP, we'll cover a broad spectrum of tools that you can place in your mental toolbox.

Sean Coates View speaker page

Sean Coates has worked on the Web for over a decade. He has managed teams of developers, developed payment code that processed over $1M per day, and worked as the Editor-in-Chief of php|architect magazine.

He is a member of the PHP community, works on the PHP manual, maintains PEAR+PECL code, speaks on the topic of PHP, and contributes to open source projects.

Sean publishes thoughts on his blog at http://seancoates.com/ and posts less significant musings on Twitter as @coates.