PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, try the introductory tutorial. After that, check out the online manual, and the example archive sites and some of the other resources available in the links section.
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[04-Oct-2006] 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).
[13-Sep-2006] The Zend / PHP Conference & Expo 2006 has an Early Bird registration special available before September 15. Use the 'earlybird' code, available on the site, and receive a $795 registration price.
The conference has announced a great line-up of speakers, including Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail and editor-in-chief at Wired Magazine, r0ml, open source strategist, and Matthew Rechs, CTO of interactive agency, Schematic. There's a great line-up of speakers available.
[10-Sep-2006] Software & Support media is pleased to announce the International PHP Conference 2006. It will happen from Nov. 05 to Nov. 08, 2006 at Frankfurt/Main. This year's sessions include topics on Security, PHP Internals, PHP & Business and Webservice topics. The Call for Papers has been closed and the programme is now online.
On Nov. 05 and Nov. 06 there will be 6-hour PowerWorkshops that deliver hands-on PHP knowledge. A Management Day, dedicated to Managers who want to get informed about the usage of PHP, contains several sessions about the usage of PHP in large companies. The "PHP Code Camp @ Nite" with PHP Core Devs Marcus Börger and Sara Golemon. They go through from PHP basics to PHP OOP and implementing your own PHP extension. Delicious pizza and beer will do the rest. Registration is now open.
[06-Sep-2006] The 2006 DC PHP Conference group is pleased to announce our speaker and schedule lineup. The conference is taking place in downtown Washington, DC, USA at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, October 19-20, 2006. There will be presentations and networking opportunities in the heart of the public sector.
[24-Aug-2006] The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.1.6. This release contains a fix for memory_limit restriction on 64 bit systems that was not included in PHP 5.1.5.
[24-Aug-2006] 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.
[17-Aug-2006] The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.1.5 and 4.4.4. These two releases address a series of security problems that were discovered since the release of PHP 5.1.4 and 4.4.3. The new releases include the following changes:
Further details about this release can be found in the release announcements (5.1.5 and 4.4.4), and the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLogs (PHP 4, PHP 5).