How to convert your rusty old LAMP into a shiny new Vibe app.
Steven Schveighoffer
May 2 @ 15:30
Duration: 50 minutes
Talk type: Presentation
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Slides: PDF
Video
Abstract:
Do you like programming in PHP? Me neither. This is why for the last year I have been porting my company’s in-house tracking system from a LAMP (Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP) application into a vibe.d application. I’ll share the techniques I am using in converting my application one piece at a time, including some of the trickier parts to get both sides to act somewhat seamlessly with each other. I will also showcase some of the best reasons to undertake such an endeavor.
Description
My company's web application is an in-house “job tracking” system, essentially a bug tracker, but for actual sales and installation of our products. It was built from a now-defunct basic job-tracking system that used PHP and Smarty templates to render pages. In the first section, I’ll briefly discuss the basics of the PHP design, so you can get a feel for what needs to be done to convert such a beast. The next section will focus on getting Apache to serve both vibe.d pages and php pages interchangeably, so that you can change one piece at a time. I’ll go over how to configure php to have sessions that are readable from both sides, and the best way to communicate between the two sides. Finally, I’ll show some comparisons of how the vibe.d/diet version compares to the PHP/Smarty version, highlighting the advantages of using D, along with a demo of the two sites for comparison. If there is time, I plan on doing some research into some of the more common PHP web frameworks (e.g. Symfony, Laravel), to discuss how this technique can be used for them.
Speaker Bio:
Steven Schveighoffer has been hacking on D since 2007. He has numerous contributions to Phobos and Druntime, including the array runtime, and has written dcollections (a container library), and iopipe (a high-performance i/o pipeline library). He currently works at National Resource Management, in Massachusetts, where he is working on the subject of this talk — a hybrid php/vibe.d application that tracks sales and installations for the company (along with some other things).
