Ilia Alshanetsky
Ilia Alshanetsky is a CIO at Centah Inc., a company specializing in providing solutions to retail and construction industries. Over the last 10 years Ilia has been heavily involved in development of PHP, as a Core Developer and Release Master, authoring many extensions and language improvements. Ilia is also quite interested in security and performance, and frequently is writing or speaking on these and other PHP related topics. In his spare time he pretends to be a pro-photographer and engages

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Sessions 2012

Introducing PHP 5.4 View session page

Session en anglais - Introduction
PHP 5.4 is the next up and coming version of PHP. This talk will talk about what this new PHP release brings to the table interms of new functionalities that are available, general improvements and the changes that may impact your existing code.

Introduction to PostgreSQL View session page

Session en anglais - Introduction
The following session will be an introduction to PostgreSQL and how to
work with it from PHP. The session will identify the key
advantages of Postgres as a database system, it's specific
functionality's that can simplify work-loads for developers and DBAs
alike.
This portion of the presentation will be done through practical code
examples and demonstrate how to work with Postgres from PHP using
both PDO and Pgsql extension. There will be also something for people
looking to migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL identifying some key
differences between these
two database system.

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