http://www.php.net/conferences/ The PHP scripting language web site http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2009-06-21-1 conference The Rio de Janeiro PHP user group is pleased to announce their first PHP'n Rio conference. It will be held July 3rd, 2009 at the Infnet Institute, in Rio de Janeiro. It is a one day mini conference aimed on providing experienced developers and beginners a chance to learn more about PHP frameworks, web applications built in PHP, and the art of testing code. The keynote speaker is Jan Schneider, who will also talk about the Horde project. In addition, we will have sessions about other frameworks and include a PHP TestFest. PHP'n Rio sessions go from 6-9 pm. Then the PHP TestFest follows up until 10 pm. No fees or subscription required. Participation is entirely free! Whether you live here or are around just enjoying the marvelous city, come and join us :) For more information, please visit http://www.phprio.org/phpnrio09 (portuguese only). 2009-06-21 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2009-06-03-1 conference CodeWorks 2009 is a series of two-day conferences for PHP developers and IT managers organized and run by the publishers of php|architect Magazine.CodeWorks will travel to seven locations across the United States between September 22nd and October 5th included. Each two-day event includes a day of in-depth tutorials and a day of conference talks arranged across three different tracks, all presented by the best experts in the business.These locations include: San Francisco, CA (9/22-9/23)Los Angeles, CA (9/24-9/25)Dallas, TX (9/26-9/27)Atlanta, GA (9/28-9/29)Miami, FL (9/30-10/1)Washington, DC/Baltimore Area (10/2-10/3)New York, NY (10/4-10/5) If PHP is your work, your passion or your hobby, CodeWorks is a great way to learn and connect with the greatest community of professionals in the world—and with prices as low as $99 and a generous discount program, a uniquely affordable opportunity for everyone.Remember, each event is limited to 300 attendees and prices increase the closer we get to each event. Get your tickets today before we run out or the price goes up!For more information, visit http://cw.mtacon.com. 2009-06-03 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2009-05-29-1 conference The AFUP (Association française des utilisateurs PHP) organizes on November 11th and November 12th at the Cité des Sciences in Paris, France, the Forum PHP for its 9th edition. The PHP Forum 2009 will welcome as a partner alongside the AFUP, the association LeMug.fr (MySQL User Group). On this occasion, AFUP decided to extend the pre-registration at preferential rates, and also postpone the deadline for the call for speakers. To monitor developments and press releases, visit the following link: http://afup.org/pages/forumphp2009/ 2009-05-29 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2009-05-12-1 cfp The Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) in St. Augustin (near Bonn) Germany has evolved to one of the top open source events in Europe. Being organized on a completly voluntary basis, its a meeting point for geeks, open source enthusiasts and OSS companies. As usual, the PHP Usergroup Dortmund (in cooperation with other German usergroups) organizes a PHP project room, with talks and discussions. The call for papers is open until May 23rd. The conference is scheduled for August 22nd - 23rd. Presenters receive at least free entance to thecomplete conference and free coffee in the PHP project room. 2009-05-12 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2009-05-07-2 cfp The Call for Papers for ZendCon 2009 has gone out. This year's conference will be held October 19th - 22nd at the San Jose Convention Center. This year the conference has been expanded to focus on the whole development team and lifecycle of your projects. Therefore not only will there be sessions on 'writing PHP code', but are also emphasizing production processes, frameworks, management information, and the maintenance & tuning of servers. Part of doing this, is to expand the PHP Community to not just include the developers, but also the operations people, the managers, ensure that the whole team comes away from ZendCon with the knowledge to deliver better products. More details on the Call for Papers, Tracks for this years conference, and more can be found at: http://zendcon.com/ Hurry up and submit some proposals, the CfP is only open until May 31st! 2009-05-07 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2009-04-17-1 conference The italian PHP user group (GrUSP), is organizing the 6th phpDay, theitalian conference dedicated to the PHP world (http://www.phpday.it/). This year's edition will be held in Verona on May 15-16th and "softwareintegration with PHP" is going to be the main theme of the event. The phpDay will have three channels: Developers: development approach and techniquesCommunity: focus on open source software and frameworksEnterprise: real case studies for business and enterprises For the benefit of our international visitors, there will be an entiretrack in english, so come and join us in the beautiful city of Verona! To subscribe to the event use our eventbrite page: http://phpday2009.eventbrite.com/ 2009-04-17 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2009-04-06-1 conference Tickets are now on sale for The Dutch PHP Conference 2009 and we want to invite you to attend. This year's conference will be held from June 11-June13, 2009. DPC09, like it's predecessors, will be held in Amsterdam at the RAI Center. This year we have expanded the conference to two days plus the tutorial day so that we can deliver even more sessions, events and value for your conference budget. Our speaker line up this year includes Andrei Zmievski, Marco Tabini, Derick Rethans, Ben Ramsey, Michelangelo van Dam, and Paul Reinheimer, just to name a few. This year's special keynote speakers are Andrei Zmievski and Owen Byrne as well as a special closing keynote session by Marco Tabini, Ivo Jansch and Cal Evans. You can see the full line up of speakers and sessions at http://phpconference.nl/schedule/. Early Bird pricing is in effect till April 30th, 2009. Save €55-€100 on ticket prices if you purchase before the deadline. For full details on DPC09 and information on how to order your tickets, visit the conference web site at http://phpconference.nl. 2009-04-07 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2009-02-20-1 conference We are happy to invite you to this year's php|tek conference, to be held May 19-22, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, and hosted (as always) by the folks at php|architect.Join us to hear talks and tutorials on a variety of PHP subjects from PHP experts such as Ed Finkler, Sara Golemon, Chris Shiflett, Sebastian Bergmann, Derick Rethans, Stefan Priebsch, Christian Wenz and our mid-conference keynote by Andrei Zmievski on PHP6. You can see the full schedule at http://tek.mtacon.com/c/schedule - we guarantee you won't be disappointed.This year we are also happy to invite you to our Unconference and Hack-a-thon which will be held in the early evenings, separate from the main schedule. You'll have a great time and won't miss a thing! This, coupled with our entertaining evening events and multiple networking opportunities will prove to make your trip to the conference an educational and memorable one!Early bird pricing is in effect until February 28, 2009 so hurry to take advantage of this offer before it's too late!For details on the conference, including registration and hotel information, please visit us at http://tek.mtacon.com/. 2009-02-20 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2009-02-18-1 conference The seventh edition of the PHP Quebec Conference will take place in a few days, between March 4th and 6th, 2009. It will be held in Montreal, Canada. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to learn more on latest development techniques with PHP, RIA, Frameworks and project management. Meet with PHP Community leaders such as: Zeev Suraski, Chris Shiflett, Andrei Zmievski, Sara Golemon, John Coggeshall and many more. With over 55 technical talks, 35 international speakers and multiple networking activities you are guaranteed to take your career one step ahead in a friendly environment. Space is limited, register online before February 28th and secure your presence. http://conf.phpquebec.com 2009-02-18 http://www.php.net/index.php#id2008-12-04-3 releases The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.7. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.7: Upgraded PCRE to version 7.8 (Fixes CVE-2008-2371) Fixed missing initialization of BG(page_uid) and BG(page_gid), reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz. Fixed incorrect php_value order for Apache configuration, reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz. Fixed a crash inside gd with invalid fonts (Fixes CVE-2008-3658). Fixed a possible overflow inside memnstr (Fixes CVE-2008-3659). Fixed security issues detailed in CVE-2008-2665 and CVE-2008-2666. Fixed bug #45151 (Crash with URI/file..php (filename contains 2 dots)).(Fixes CVE-2008-3660) Fixed bug #42862 (IMAP toolkit crash: rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow). (Fixes CVE-2008-2829) Fixed extraction of zip files and directories with crafted entries, reported by Stefan Esser. Further details about the PHP 5.2.7 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.7, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5. Update (December 6th): Added missing zip security fix 2008-12-05 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2008-11-04-1 cfp PHP London are pleased to announce their 4th annual UK PHP conference, building on the success of previous events and accommodating the continual growth of the PHP community and PHP development industry. The event will take place on Friday February 27th 2009 at Olympia Conference Centre, London. Registration will commence in December 2008 and those interested in attending can create an account on the PHP UK Conference website at http://www.phpconference.co.uk/user/register and sign-up for notifications of updates to the website. The Call For Papers is now open and finishes at the end of November 2008. Speakers interested in talking at the event can submit their details at http://www.phpconference.co.uk/call-for-papers whilst potential sponsors can contact the conference committee using the form at http://www.phpconference.co.uk/contact 2008-11-04 http://www.php.net/conferences/index.php#id2008-09-16-1 cfp PHP Québec is pleased to announce the seventh edition of the PHP Québec Conference. The Conference will take place in Montréal, Québec, Canada between March 4 and 6th 2009. We are looking for speakers willing to share their expertise with Canadian and United States PHP professionals. The Conference features technical talks and Labs dedicated to advanced software development techniques with PHP5 and PHP6, XML, web services,databases, etc., project management where speakers and visitor swill try to find solutions to actual business problems. Organizers will prioritize new and original topics in English or French. For more information, visit the website: http://conf.phpquebec.com 2008-09-17