PHP Magazine: Inaugural Edition of Guru Speak
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There is a new column from the folks over at PHP Magazine for your enjoyment:
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Paul Jones has posted a very quick note about one of his presentations today:   The slides from my php|works talk are now available as a PDF file. I'm going to try to create an audio version after I get back from the conference.   You can see a summary of Paul's talk (and a list of the others being given) over on the php|architect site.
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Just as a reminder, you can keep up with the action going on at the International PHP Conference and MySQL ComCon via the blogging going on over at the PHP Magazine coverage blog.
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This month's edition of php|architect has been released - complete with the "return" of a sample article.
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Ligaya Turmelle has relayed some great news in her latest blog entry, something that the web's been needing for a long time - a new group from the W3C created specifically for enhancing the HTML standard.   Now I have to admit to being curious about what is going on - after all anything new dealing with the web affects me as PHP coder. Since the W3C is supposedly interested in input from the Web community and content developers, I decided to see who from PHP would be there. Granted it is very early for the formation of the group so it didn't really surprise me to see no one from PHP that I know or heard about in there, but I wonder if anyone from the PHP Group will become a "invited expert" somewhere down the road.   The group is looking for members to help define this next generation of markup on the web. Check out their page for some of the qualifications needed to participate and for some of the upcoming events.W3C Launches New HTML Working Group
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Raphael Stolt has posted a book review of one of Manning Publishing's PHP-related books, "PHP in Action: Modern Software Practices for PHP".   Over the last few days I got the chance to skim through the upcoming Manning release "PHP in Action: Modern Software Practices for PHP" by Dagfinn ReiersÃ¸l et al. The reviewed book is seperated into four main parts, covering lots of interesting topics in a good and fluent writing style.   Raphael outlines the book, mentioning the four parts the book is divided up into:  Basic PHP tools and concepts Developing applications via Test Driven Development Web presentation and user interfaces Object-oriented development including things like database abstraction  Raphael gives the book a positive rating and recommends it for anyone that has the basics down and is looking to extend their knowledge that much more.
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Dave Dash has posted his own summary about a recent PHP-related conference that happened in Amersfoort - SymfonyCamp.   He talks about some of the presentations given, the other conference attendees, Fabien Potencier's Symfony 2.0 talk, his own talk on the Zend Search Lucene component and the "clean up" project they spent a day working on.   You can also check out Fabien's overview of the event (with more photos) for a different perspective.
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New from PHP Magazine today is the latest issue of their PHPBarnstormer (Issue #18).
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As part of their presentation, Luke and Laura recorded a video podcast for Informit covering the current state of PHP. It was shown at this year's , but if you didn't get a chance to see it (or make it to the conference), Laura's posted both parts for your downloading pleasure.    This is part of Informit's podcast series On Open Source: Part 1, Part 2.   I rant about frameworks, Luke talks about PHP security, and we offer advice for young programmers.  I hope you enjoy it, it was fun to record.    For more open source related podcasts, check out the Informit page for topics like software freedom, Microsoft, monetization and SourceForge.
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Patrick Reilly has posted about a new group that's being formed in the PHP world - a PHP Evangelism Team designed to help promote the language.   The goal of the PHP Evangelism Team is to bring together the right people, resources and experience from across the PHP Community to provide developers with the process guidance and best practices needed to create new opportunities for the web.   They're also looking to help support local user groups and aid in any PHP-related event they can. You can subscribe to their mailing list to get more information as the group develops. Check out the post for the address to join the list.
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This month's edition of php|architect magazine has been released - the January 2008 edition. Articles included in this month's issue include:   PHAR: PHP Archive Files from Gregory Beaver Webmail 2.0: Introducing RoundCube by Tim Klampackel Killing the For Loop from Paul Chandler The Doctrine Framework by Nicolas Berard-Nault and the usual columns - /Etc and Test Pattern   If you're already subscribed, you should be getting your issue any time now but, if you're not, there's two ways you can get your hands on a copy - either "quick buy" it from the php|architect website or subscribe and get this and other great future issues jam packed full of great PHP content.
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This week's edition of PHP Magazine's PHPBarnstormer has been released - Issue #22.
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Indu Britto has a new blog posting today concerning the upcoming issue of PHP Magazine - the new year's edition.
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P&aacute;draic Brady has a suggestion for all of the PHP readers out there - two articles in the latest edition of php|architect magazine, the May 2007 edition:   The two that stick in my mind are Jim Delahunt's "Unicode and PHP: A Gentle Introduction" and Jeff Moore's "Test Pattern: Model View Controller". Both are something those seeking illumination on these topics should certainly read.   The first presents an introduction to one of the hottest topics in the PHP world - Unicoding - including a few same scripts to get you going. The second article, a look at the Model/View/Controller pattern that really gets more to what the pattern is about rather than just talking about its structure.
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Vineet Agrawal sent us along an email today about a new event happening at this year's OSSCampDelhi - Delhi's first PHP Unconference:    India's first community driven PHP Camp is on 08-09 September 2007.  PHP Camp is part of India's biggest Open Source UnConference "OSS Camp".  More than 300 Geeks from across the world are expected to participate.    PHP Camp will bring together the PHP community in a distinctly un-conference setting, to gather in groups to discuss or hack on something, rather than sitting in chairs and listening to marketing presentations with corporate logo.  It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants.  Participation is free of cost!  OSS Camp is based on philosophy of Bar Camp .  Barcamp is an ad-hoc gathering born out of the desire for people to meet up, share, exchange ideas and possibilities in an open environment.   At OSS Camp there are no RULES, FIXED Formats, where open source geeks run the show!!   Some of the tracks for PHP camps are Frameworks, Unit Testing, PHP Security, Performance Management, High Availability beside product specific themes like Joomla, Drupal, EZ, Dot Project camps.      You can find out more information from the wiki for the event and, if you're interested in presenting, head over to the submissions page and provide the info for your session (around 40 minutes for a normal talk, 90 minutes for a workshop).
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Elizabeth Naramore points out the recent publication of the latest International PHP Magazine issue for July of 2007:   I was happy to contribute to their recently released June edition. I did an interview with the new PEAR Group on the future of PEAR. I'm glad to see such enthusiasm and collaboration among the newly elected group.   You can check out the issue and order your copy from the International PHP Magazine website (here's the table of contents too showing the rest of the articles/columns in this month's edition.
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DevShed continues their series looking at some of the fundamentals of working with PHP in this new tutorial posted today. It looks at one of the flow control statements the language has to offer and a very useful data structure - the switch statement and arrays.   In our last exciting adventure (back in early November), we braved crocodiles, ravenous editors, most of the PHP statements, and beginning loops. In this edition we'll cover the final statement, the Switch, and discuss arrays. So sit back, order your R2D2 robot to bring you a cold, frosty Jolt Cola, and let's get cracking.   They start with a simple example of a switch statement (to echo out strings) and follow it with a detailed description of the different sorts of arrays - numeric indexed, associative and multidimensional versions.