The elePHPants are now ready to make their 2008 generation. PHP User groups, enthusiasts and companies that are interested in groups of elePHPants, shall join this year's herd.

ElePHPants are a great link of the community, happily promoting your favorite language in conferences, on work station, baby cribs and other unusual places. Production prices make it possible for groups to raise funds, entice membership or simply bring joy and PHP around.

Pre-register your herd of elePHPants online, for big and small, and join the world of blue elePHPants.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediateavailability of PHP 5.2.6. This release focuses on improving the stability ofthe 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.

Further details about the PHP 5.2.6 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.6, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.6:

• Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.
• Fixed integer...

The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Ten students will "flip bits instead of burgers" this summer:

• Zend LLVM Extension by Joonas Govenius, mentored by Nuno Lopes
• PHP Optimizer by Samuel Graham Kelly IV, mentored by Derick Rethans
• PhD (PHP Docbook) Project by Rudy Nappée, mentored by Hannes Magnusson
...

The DC PHP Developers Group recently announced Kshemendra Paul as a featured keynote speaker at the DC PHP Conference & Expo, June 2-4, 2008, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Paul, chief architect for the Office of Management and Budget Executive Office of the President, will be presenting on "Federal E-Government and Enterprise Architecture Updates."

Join hundreds of PHP practitioners, business managers, and government officials from around the world in the exchange of ideas and solutions for building a better web application infrastructure. The DC PHP conference will include tracks pertaining to business cases, best practices, the art of PHP, PHP applications, PHP in the...

The PHP-QA team would like to announce the TestFest for the month of May 2008. The TestFest is an event that aims at improving the code coverage of the test suite for the PHP language itself. As part of this event, local User Groups (UG) are invited to join the TestFest. These UGs can meet physically or come together virtually. The point however is that people network to learn together. Aside from being an opportunity for all of you to make friends with like minded people in your (virtual) community, it also will hopefully reduce the work load for the PHP.net...

The Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) 2008 is a two-day conference on free software and open source. It will take place on August, 23th and 24th 2008 in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany.

The PHP Usergroups Dortmund, Köln/Bonn and Hamburg are cooperatively organizing the PHP track as a sub-conference of the FrOSCon. The call for paper is now open.

Once again we are glad to announce that we have been accepted to be a Google Summer of Code project. See our program for this year's GSoC.

We would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Google Inc. for this privilege to participate once again, and would like to invite everyone to look at our list of ideas: http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2008. Students are of course more than welcome to come up with their own ideas for their proposals and we will consider each and every application that we will receive.

So once again, thanks to everyone who is involved in this magnificent journey and we hope to see many of you great students and open source...

The publishers of php|architect Magazine are proud to announce the php|tek 2008 conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The PHP Community meets May 20-23 for one of North America's premier PHP conferences of 2008. Join us to hear top speakers such as Derick Rethans (eZ Systems), Lucas Nelan (Facebook), Chris Shiflett (OmniTI), Eli White (Digg) and yes, even Terry Chay (Tagged).

For the past two years, php|architect's spring conference has sold out weeks before the start date, so if you're interested in attending, don't delay, and be sure to