PHP Conferences

DevConf 2012 in Moscow, Russia on Jun 9 - Jun 10 DevConf is the ultimate meeting place for russian-speaking web-developers, combining several language-specific conferences under one roof. This year DevConf will include the following sections: DevConf::PHP();DevConf::Perl();DevConf::RoR();DevConf::Python();DevConf::Javascript(); Each section will feature several talks from the active contributors/authors of the language. Among the invited speakers are Derick Rethans (XDebug creator), David Soria Parra (active PHP contributor), Andrey Aksyonov (author of Sphinx), Alexander Makarov (one of the main contributors to Yii), Sergey Petrunya (of MariaDB fame), Ilya Alekseev (OpenStack Nova contributor) and many others, see more details on the official website.

Please note: This call for papers closes on 12 April, 2012.Wanting to share your experiences with a larger PHP community? Please submit your name and topic ideas (even if you are only suggesting topics and not wishing to actually present them) - each topic requires a separate submission, submit as many as you like:http://speakers.northeastphp.orgWe hope to have topics and hands-on workshops in four tracks: Core PHP topics (Intermediate to Advanced levels)Web development related topicsTraining track (workshop style)UX related topics This event is co-organized by 3 User Groups in the Northeast of North America, namely: Atlantic Canada, Vermont and Area, and Boston.

The PHP North West conference returns in 2011 with the usual great selection of technical content for you to enjoy! We're at Ramada Hotel on Picadilly Gardens right in the centre of Manchester on October 8th and 9th (Saturday and Sunday) with some excellent talks. For those looking for more in-depth technical learning, we're adding a tutorial day this year; join us on Friday 7th October for a full day of workshop format sessions with industry leaders - and every ticket includes a pass to the main conference! Our call for papers runs until June 12th 2011, and whether you join us as a speaker, a sponsor, or an attendee, we know you'll have a great time. PHPNW is a fun weekend of PHP and technology with an excellent crowd to hang out with - hope to see you there :)

The PHP development team would like to announce the 8th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site. THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! . This is the 8th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release. No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0. The 7th and 8th release candidates focus on fixing critical bugs and security vulnerabilities, including: A buffer overflow in htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() (bug #60965). Improving the max_input_vars configuration directive to check nested variables. A complete list of changes since the last release candidate can be found in the NEWS file. We've received a lot of feedback that has helped to improve the upcoming release of PHP 5.4.0. Please continue to help us to identify bugs in order to ensure that the release is solid and all things behave as expected by taking the time to test this release candidate against your code base and reporting any problems that you encounter to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker. The next release candidate will be released on March 1.