PHP Québec is pleased to announce the 2007 PHP Québec conference. The conference will take place in Montreal, Canada on March 14-15-16th 2007. We are looking for the best speakers willing to share their experience and skills with professional PHP developers from eastern Canada and the United States. This year, the conference will feature 3 distinct tracks: Advanced Techniques: Providing in-depth details of PHP techniques Data Availability: Databases, XML, Web Services, VOIP, TOIP, WAP, etc PHP Beyond theory: Real solutions for real problems related to software development and project management For more information, please visit the conference website.

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The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.2.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features, bug fixes and security enhancements. Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement 5.2.0, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog PHP 5. All users of PHP, especially those using earlier PHP 5 releases are advised to upgrade to this release as soon as possible. This release also obsoletes the 5.1 branch of PHP. For users upgrading from PHP 5.0 and PHP 5.1 there is an upgrading guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.2.0.

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The Vancouver PHP User Group is pleased to announce thier second PHP Conference in Vancouver, B.C., Canada on February 12-13, 2007. If you are interested in participating as a speaker or sponsor, please email Shane Caraveo at shanec AT ActiveState DOT com.

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The French AFUP association is proud to announce the fifth annual PHP meeting in Paris, on November 9th and 10th, 2006. Developers and managers will gather to meet Rasmus Lerdorf, Andrei Zmievski and other prominent community experts for two days of sessions, packed with enterprise solutions and advanced techniques (in French).

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The third edition of Mastering Regular Expressions is finally out and includes a full 48-page chapter on PHP. This is an excellent resource from Jeffrey Friedl who has been writing about regexps for years.

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