Call for Speakers: PHP Québec 2005

[09-Nov-2004] The PHP Québec is proud to announce the PHP Québec conference 2005, which will be held on March, 30th&31th and April 1rst 2005. We are looking for the best speakers, willing to share their experience and skills with the educated crowd of PHP programmers in eastern Canada and in the USA. PHP Québec 2005 features 4 distinct tracks:

• Professional PHP
• PHP advanced technics
• MySQL
• Apache and ASF projects

MySQL, RedHat and other partners started a new campaign against software patents

[01-Nov-2004] In order to boost more awareness of the pending software patent issues in the European Union—MySQL, ISP 1&1, RedHat and other partners started a new portal "". The site is available in 10 different european languages and explains why software patents are bad, and how they might affect you. In order to learn more, or participate in events against software patents, have a look at the very informative .

Zend's PHP 5 Coding Contest winners announced

[25-Oct-2004] Congratulations to Qiang Xue, whose application '' earned high votes both from the public and from the judges' panel! There are 49 other prizewinning applications in Zend's - too many to list here. Some of them are ongoing projects, bringing PHP 5 a small armoury of useful open source tools.

The top 50 applications will remain on display until the end of this year, giving you the chance to take a leisurely look through the code and see how the new features in PHP 5 should be used.

PHP before Canadian government, in Ottawa, October 19th and 20th, 2004

[12-Oct-2004] , the profesional association of PHP users in Qu�bec, will be part of the , in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday October 19th and Wednesday October 20th. PHP Qu�bec will present 's features, its capabilities for e-government and its support services in Canada. Come and meet us on the floor, booth 1610C.

Forum PHP in Paris, November 18 & 19, 2004

[28-Sep-2004] The French is proud to announce the fourth annual PHP meeting in Paris, on November 18th and 19th, 2004. Developers and managers will gather to meet Zeev Suraski, Rasmus Lerdorf and other prominent community experts for two days of sessions, packed with (in French).

PHP 5.0.2 released!

[23-Sep-2004] The PHP Development Team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.0.2. This is a maintenance release that in addition to many non-critical bug fixes, addresses a problem with GPC input processing. All Users of PHP 5 are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible.

For changes since PHP 5.0.1, please consult the ChangeLog.

PHP 4.3.9 released!

[22-Sep-2004] The PHP Development Team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 4.3.9. This is a maintenance release that in addition to over 50 non-critical bug fixes, addresses a problem with GPC input processing. This release also re-introduces ability to write GIF images via the bundled GD extension. All Users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible.

For changes since PHP 4.3.8, please consult the ChangeLog.

MySQL ComCon Europe

[06-Sep-2004] The MySQL ComCon Europe 2004 brings together the vigor and excitement of a community event with the structure of MySQL mission-critical business event. The conference will take place in Frankfurt from November 9th to 10th and will have a day of pre-conference power workshops on the 8th. Sessions on diverse topics such as "Performance Tuning J2EE Applications deployed on MySQL", "PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1/5.0" and a two-part introduction to MySQL Cluster will be presented by MySQL core developers, expert trainers and MySQL community leaders. For more details on the event, please visit .

OSCOM.4 with Apache Track

[14-Aug-2004] OSCOM, the international association for Open Source Content Management is arranging the from 29th September to 1st October in Z�rich. This fall, the event features Apache Software Foundation projects, and PHP, so you have a chance to meet some prominent figures of the PHP scene there. OSCOM.4 is a place for developers, vendors, integrators and users to mingle and learn from each other. !

New Installation Instructions

[14-Aug-2004] The latest online version of the PHP Manual contains a completely reorganized Installation and Configuration part, which is now divided into sections for individual platforms and servers to ease your first steps with PHP. The Windows installation instructions are completely revised, and now suggest you to set environment variables instead of moving files. This way upgrades and configuration changes become easier.

PHP 5.0.1 Released!

[12-Aug-2004] The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.0.1. This is a maintenance release that in addition to many non-critical bug fixes also includes new UNIX and Windows installation docs which are now auto-generated from the PHP Manual.

For changes since PHP 5.0.0, please consult the ChangeLog.

PHP Tunisie Magazine

[02-Aug-2004] has just released the of its monthly french PHP Magazine. In this issue you'll find a large plan on PostgreSQL, Databases abstractions with PHP, your mini template engine, an article on images generation with PHP, the migration towards PHP5 with EasyPHP1.7... And many other articles and latests PHP news.

PHP Tunisie Magazine is edited by the Tunisian PHP Users Group.

PHP 5.0.0 Released!

[13-Jul-2004] The PHP team is proud to announce the final release of PHP 5!

Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:

• The with a new object model and dozens of new features.
• XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library ().
• A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.
• A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
• A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later. This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to a traditional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL's new features, such as prepared statements.
• SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit .
• Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket operations on streams.
• And lots more...

For changes since Release Candidate 3, please consult the ChangeLog.

PHP 4.3.8 released!

[13-Jul-2004] PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.3.8. This release is made in response to several security issues that have been discovered since the 4.3.7 release. All users of PHP are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 4.3.8 as soon as possible.

International PHP Conference 2004

[18-Jun-2004] The traditional International PHP Conference 2004 will be taking place from 7th November to 10th November in Frankfurt (FFM). The Call for Papers has been issued, so if you have an interesting talk, the organizers would love to hear about it! You can expect a gathering of PHP experts and core developers.

You can find the CfP . The deadline is 16th July, 2004.

The conference is also featuring an OpenSource Exhibition where PHP related OpenSource projects can present themselves for free.

php|works - early-bird discount now in effect

[16-Jun-2004] magazine is proud to introduce , a three-day conference on PHP and the business of open-source software that will be held in Toronto, Canada, September 22-24 2004.

The conference includes a total of over 30 hours of technical and business-oriented presentations that range from Rasmus Lerdorf's "Best Practices for PHP Developers" to "Getting your OSS Business Funded", presented by venture capital specialist Christian Mayaud. Other sessions include practical talks on PHP 5, regular expressions, multilingual development, PDO, XML and OOP. The business track includes sessions on the use of PHP in the legal, financial and healthcare industry, growing your business with OSS, the status of the PHP market and much, much more!

As an added bonus, attendees who sign up before July 20th are eligible for up to $100 in early-bird savings.

For more information, visit the .

LAMP area at LinuxTag 2004 in Karlsruhe, Germany

[14-Jun-2004] The LAMP area will highlight the use of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP as technologies for enterprise applications at in Karlsruhe, Germany from June 23 to 26. The companies that are presenting in the speakers area of the 150 square meters booth are: , , , and .

Besides presentations from the above companies the LAMP area also presents over 40 sessions by Apache-, MySQL- and PHP-developers, such as Rasmus Lerdorf, Ken Coar and Brian Aker. Entrance to LinuxTag is free if you . For more information see website.

PHP 5 Release Candidate 3 Released!

[8-Jun-2004] The third (and hopefully final) Release Candidate of PHP 5 is now available! This mostly bug fix release improves PHP 5's stability and irons out some of the remaining issues before PHP 5 can be deemed release quality. Everyone is now encouraged to start playing with it!

There are few changes changes since Release Candidate 2, which can be found here.

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