The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.0. Some of the key features of PHP 5.1.0 include: A complete rewrite of date handling code, with improved timezone support. Significant performance improvements compared to PHP 5.0.X. PDO extension is now enabled by default. Over 30 new functions in various extensions and built-in functionality. Bundled libraries, PCRE and SQLite upgraded to latest versions. Over 400 various bug fixes. PEAR upgraded to version 1.4.5 In addition to new features, this release includes a number of important security fixes and we recommend that all users of PHP 5.0 and early adopters of PHP 5.1 betas upgrade to this release as soon as possible. The complete details about all of the changes can be found in the PHP 5 ChangeLog and an upgrading guide is available as well.

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PHP Québec is pleased to announce the 2006 PHP Québec conference, which will be held between March, 29th and 31th 2006. We are looking for the best speakers, willing to share their experience and skills with professional PHP developers from eastern Canada and USA. PHP Québec 2006 features 3 distinct tracks: Technical PHP, covering in deep details of PHP techniques. Professional Development, featuring tools and development methodologies to increase productivity. Databases, covers different databases that can be used with PHP. Sessions will be held in French or English. For more information, see the PHP Québec website.

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PHP Québec is pleased to announce the 2006 PHP Québec conference, which will be held between March, 29th and 31th 2006. We are looking for the best speakers, willing to share their experience and skills with professional PHP developers from eastern Canada and USA. PHP Québec 2006 features 3 distinct tracks: Technical PHP, covering in deep details of PHP techniques. Professional Development, featuring tools and development methodologies to increase productivity. Databases, covers different databases that can be used with PHP. Sessions will be held in French or English. For more information, see the PHP Québec website.

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The French AFUP association is proud to announce the fourth annual PHP meeting in Paris, on November 9th and 10th, 2005. Developers and managers will gather to meet Rasmus Lerdorf, Wez Furlong and other prominent community experts for two days of sessions, packed with enterprise solutions and advanced techniques (in French).

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The final program for the Zend / PHP Conference (October 18-21, 2005 in San Francisco) is now available. The conference theme is "Power Your Business With PHP" and features keynote addresses from Marc Andreessen, Google VP Adam Bosworth, and executives from IBM, Oracle & Intel. Featured speakers include Michael Radwin of Yahoo!, Adam Trachtenberg of eBay, Joyce Park of Renkoo.com, George Schlossnagle & Wez Furlong of OmniTI, and, of course, Zeev Suraski & Andi Gutmans. In addition to keynotes and sessions, the conference also features tutorials, certification, a party continuing the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of PHP, and an exhibit hall including companies like Zend, IBM, Oracle, Intel, MySQL, Microsoft, eBay/PayPal, Emic Networks, ActiveGrid, ActiveState and SpikeSource. Registration discounts are still available.

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