Tutorial PHP Inside/Out Sterling Hughes, Freelance Software Developer Thies C. Arntzen, Independent Consultant Track: PHP Date: Tuesday, July 27 Time: 1:45pm - 5:15pm Location: Salon D TrackBack In this tutorial, two of PHP core's developers will take you in-depth into the internals of PHP and the Zend Engine. They cover a request from the browser, to the engine, to the extensions and back again, giving attendees a solid understanding of how Zend and PHP work on the inside. Topics covered include: The inner workings of PHP5's object model How the parser/scanner build bytecode How bytecode is executed, and common expressions brought down to bytecode. How the Garbage Collection and Memory Management systems works How to tune your scripts and systems to take advantage of the internal knowledge you've learned in this talk (including important issues pertaining to PHP extension authoring.)

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