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Early Bird registration is now open for PHPCon 2002. Strong technical tracks on Enterprise PHP, Application Development, and XML combined with speakers from Rackspace, Yahoo!, Macromedia, and MySQL make this the conference a must attend for anyone interested in expanding their PHP knowledge.
Join PHPCon in delivering the PHP message with Birds of a Feather (BoFs) and Works in Process (WiPs) sessions. Submit your BoF and WiP topics online.
An idea who's time has come, don't miss this opportunity to attend the only conference in the US is placing PHP front and center as the language for solving web problems. PHPCon 2002, October 24 & 25, 2002, Millbrae, California.
[04-Sept-2002] The 9th sample of the CHM edition is out now. This sample includes a workaround for the most annoying IE6 bug we met so far, and also simplifies the skin choosing process putting all available skins to a dropdown list. Every designer is welcome to make their own skins and submit them for inclusion in the standard set or distribute in our soon-to-be online skin repository. , and please send us your feedback to our .
[03-Aug-2002] Starting from today, the manual pages are not only available in their printer friendly versions, but also in printer friendly versions with user notes included. Check the links at the top of the manual pages to go to printer friendly manual pages, and change languages.
[31-Jul-2002] ActiveState is pleased to announce the winners of the 2002 Active Awards, presented at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in San Diego, CA. The Active Awards are held annually to honor members of the PHP, Python, Perl, Tcl, and XSLT communities, who actively contribute to open languages and display excellence in their programming efforts. Activators' Choice Award winners were chosen by ActiveState's development team. Programmers' Choice Award winners were nominated and chosen by the open source community, the nominees were: Greg Allan; Stig Bakken; Bogomil Shopov; Philippe Thomassigny; and Andrei Zmievski.
The Activators' Choice winners are Derick Rethans and Jani Taskinen. Derick is heavily involved in developing processes for QA and Release Management, and Jani has been one of the largest contributors to QA and support of the Bug database. The Programmers' Choice winner is Greg Allen, who was the lead developer and founding member of the PostNuke project. More details are available at
[22-Jul-2002] The PHP Group today announced the details of a serious vulnerability in PHP versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1. A security update, PHP 4.2.2, fixes the issue. Everyone running affected versions of PHP is encouraged to upgrade immediately. The new 4.2.2 release doesn't include other changes, so upgrading from 4.2.1 is safe and painless.
[09-Jul-2002] comp.lang.php was created yesterday, after a two and a half month long process started in April by Ian Fette resulted in a 177-11 vote in favor of the group. The new group is already carried on most news servers, and should be carried on almost all news servers in the world within the next few days.
The new group is important for a few reasons: Firstly, the old alt.* php groups suffered from poor propagation - i.e. not all servers carried them, and the community was split between multiple groups. This new group offers a chance to unite the PHP-Usenet community. Secondly, most servers have longer post-retention times for comp.* than alt.*. Finally, the creation of comp.lang.php represents PHP's coming to acceptance and maturity. Virtually all languages have a spot under the comp.lang.* hierarchy. Stop on by and become a part of the community - comp.lang.php is a great place to get help and to help others.
[30-Jun-2002] The second alpha release of PHP w/ Zend Engine 2 is . It is based on the current PHP 4 CVS (4.3.0-dev) and includes the new scripting engine which greatly improves the object model, adds exception handling and provides a much better infrastructure for the integration of external technologies like Java or .NET. For more details and examples you can check out the CHANGES file and an example script which shows how some of these features can be used.
Note: This is an alpha version. It should not be used in production or even semi-production web sites. There are known bugs in it, and in addition, some of the features may change (based on feedback). We encourage you to download and play with it (and report bugs if you find any!), but please don't expect it to replace your copy of PHP 4 at this stage.
Windows binary version is also available for .
[12-Jun-2002] The is looking for people, who do talks and workshops at the conference. If you want to present your talk, please to them. The conference will be held in November in Frankfurt/Germany. For more information about dates and topics, visit the .