Wednesday, December 7, 2016

• 6:00 PM

Stowers Institute

• 1000 E 50th St, Kansas City, MO (map)
• Park in the garage and enter the main building to the west of the garage. Follow the signs and turn right at the security desk.
• Please join us for an evening of looking at the exciting past month of PHP news and learning about iterating over things.

  Light refreshments will be provided. Join us to meet new people, discuss PHP, and learn something new. 

  Our Evening Meeting Format

  We love Web Development and all things PHP. Our meetings are often a little free-formed, but we shoot for this schedule:

  6:00pm - Mingling / Meet and Greet

  6:15pm - Lightning Talk: Last Month in PHP

  6:30pm - Presentation: Irritating Strings -- Iterating Things
  Arrays are beautiful in PHP. One can map them, reduce them, filter them, foreach them, and use them in generators. Strings, on the other hand, are mere shadows to the Array. One can, uh, input and output Strings, and, when brave, manipulate them. What makes Arrays so awesome and Strings so dull? Iterators. 

  In this talk, we’ll look at the modest origins of the String and the basics of the Iterator. Then, we’ll look at how we can make the String as awesome as the Array through the use of iterator interfaces.

  By the end of this talk, you will know the origins of the PHP String and you will be able to extend your knowledge of iterating through a String to be able to iterate through customized objects.

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  All Developers Welcome!

  We understand Web Developers often come from all backgrounds, and many work in more languages than PHP. Whether you're curious and just starting out, dabble in PHP on the weekends, write custom PHP on a daily basis, work in a framework like Symfony, Zend Framework, Silex, Slim, Laravel, CakePHP or customize CMS products like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla; our goal is that you will find something new, useful and thought provoking.

  Interested in giving a presentation to the group, or demoing something you're working on? Contact one of the organizers through Meetup or talk after a monthly meeting to sign up!