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<h1>News Archive - 2004</h1>

<p>
 Here are the most important news items we have published in 2004 on PHP.net.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>A Note on Security in PHP</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[31-Dec-2004]</span>
 The PHP Development Team has issued an <a href="/security-note.php">important
 statement</a> that deals with the security of PHP, and of PHP-based applications.
 The trigger for releasing this statement was the growing misconception in the PHP
 community regarding recent security problems, which exploited bugs
 in PHP applications, rather than bugs in PHP itself.  It's a recommended read
 for anybody using PHP.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>Function list suggestions available</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[27-Dec-2004]</span>
 Surely, some of our visitors are back at work for a few days between
 holidays, and hopefully they will find our post-christmas gift useful.
 The function list suggestions we started to test a year ago seemed to
 be working better as some bugs were found and fixed, so it was time to
 make the result available on all php.net pages.
</p>
<p>
 Whenever you type something into the search field, while having the
 function list search option selected, you will get a list of suggested
 functions starting with the letters you typed in. You can browse the list
 with the up/down keys, and you will be able to autocomplete the function
 name with the spacebar.
</p>
<p>
 If you are not interested in this feature, you can turn it
 off for yourself on the <a href="/my.php">My PHP.net</a> page.
 <a href="/search.php">More information</a> about is available on
 the search page.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP 4.3.10 &amp; 5.0.3 released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[15-Dec-2004]</span>
  The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of 
  <a href="/downloads.php">PHP 4.3.10</a> and <a href="/downloads.php">PHP 5.0.3</a>. 
  These are maintenance releases that in addition to non-critical bug fixes 
  address several very serious security issues. All Users of PHP are strongly 
  encouraged to upgrade to one of these releases as soon as possible.
</p>

<p>
 For changes since PHP 4.3.9, please consult the
 <a href="/ChangeLog-4.php#4.3.10">PHP 4 ChangeLog</a>.
 For changes since PHP 5.0.2, please consult the
 <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.0.3">PHP 5 ChangeLog</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>Second Bulgarian PHP Conference</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[15-Dec-2004]</span>
 The second Web Technology conference in Bulgaria will be held in March 2005
 at the city of Sofia. Within its framework, the <a
 href="http://webtech2005.info/index.php?/archives/19-PHP-iioaaioee.html">Second
 Bulgarian PHP Conference</a> and first IT Business conference will be held.
 The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the new tendencies in this direction
 and to popularize the internet technologies in the spheres of business,
 education, and services. The range of subjects includes technologies like
 PHP, Perl, business systems through web, education through the internet, and
 others.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>International PHP Conference 2005 - Spring Edition (Amsterdam, May 2-4)</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[15-Dec-2004]</span>
 The PHP Center and the Software &amp; Support Verlag are pleased
 to announce the <a href="http://www.phpconference.com/">International
 PHP Conference 2005 Spring Edition</a> in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
 The dates for this event will be May 2-4, 2005. The conference venue
 is the RAI conference center.
</p>
<p>
 The topics are General PHP, PHP &amp; Business/Integration,
 PHP &amp; Databases, PHP Design, PHP Extensions, PHP &amp; XML
 and PHP-GTK.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>MySQL, RedHat and other partners started a new campaign against software patents</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[01-Nov-2004]</span>
 In order to boost more awareness of the pending software patent issues in the
 European Union&mdash;MySQL, ISP 1&amp;1, RedHat and other partners started
 a new portal "<a href="http://nosoftwarepatents.com">http://nosoftwarepatents.com</a>".
 The site is available in 10 different european languages and explains why
 software patents are bad, and how they might affect you. In order to learn
 more, or participate in events against software patents, have a look at the
 very informative <a href="http://nosoftwarepatents.com">website</a>.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>Zend's PHP 5 Coding Contest winners announced</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[25-Oct-2004]</span>
 Congratulations to Qiang Xue, whose application
 '<a href="http://www.xisc.com/">PRADO</a>' earned high votes both
 from the public and from the judges' panel!
 There are 49 other prizewinning applications in Zend's
 <a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/contest">contest gallery</a>
 &ndash; too many to list here.  Some of them are ongoing projects, bringing
 PHP 5 a small armoury of useful open source tools.
</p>

<p>
 The top 50 applications will remain on display until the end of
 this year, giving you the chance to take a leisurely look through
 the code and see how the new features in PHP 5 should be used.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>PHP before Canadian government, in Ottawa, October 19th and 20th, 2004</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[12-Oct-2004]</span>
 <a href="http://www.phpquebec.com/">PHP Québec</a>, the profesional association
 of PHP users in Québec, will be part of the <a 
 href="http://www.gtecweek.com/">GTEC exhibition</a>, in Ottawa, Ontario, on 
 Tuesday October 19th and Wednesday October 20th. PHP Québec will present PHP's
 features, its capabilities for e-government and its support services in Canada. 
 Come and meet us on the floor, booth 1610C.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>Forum PHP in Paris, November 18 &amp; 19, 2004</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[28-Sep-2004]</span>
 The French <a href="http://www.afup.org/">AFUP association</a>
 is proud to announce the fourth annual PHP meeting in Paris,
 on November 18th and 19th, 2004. Developers and managers will
 gather to meet Zeev Suraski, Rasmus Lerdorf and other prominent community experts
 for two days of sessions, packed with
 <a href="http://www.afup.org/article.php3?id_article=253">enterprise solutions and advanced techniques</a>
 (in French).
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>PHP 5.0.2 released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[23-Sep-2004]</span>
 The PHP Development Team is proud to announce the immediate release of <a href="/downloads.php#v5">PHP 5.0.2</a>.
 This is a maintenance release that in addition to many non-critical bug fixes, addresses a problem
 with GPC input processing. 
 All Users of PHP 5 are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible.
</p>

<p>
 For changes since PHP 5.0.1, please consult the
 <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.0.2">ChangeLog</a>.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>PHP 4.3.9 released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[22-Sep-2004]</span>
 The PHP Development Team is proud to announce the immediate release of <a href="/downloads.php">PHP 4.3.9</a>.
 This is a maintenance release that in addition to over 50 non-critical bug fixes, addresses a problem
 with GPC input processing. This release also re-introduces ability to write
 GIF images via the bundled GD extension.
 All Users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible.
</p>

<p>
 For changes since PHP 4.3.8, please consult the
 <a href="/ChangeLog-4.php#4.3.9">ChangeLog</a>.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>MySQL ComCon Europe</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[06-Sep-2004]</span>
 The MySQL ComCon Europe 2004 brings together the vigor and excitement of a
 community event with the structure of MySQL mission-critical business event.
 The conference will take place in Frankfurt from November 9th to 10th and will
 have a day of pre-conference power workshops on the 8th. Sessions on diverse
 topics such as "Performance Tuning J2EE Applications deployed on MySQL", "PHP
 5 and MySQL 4.1/5.0" and a two-part introduction to MySQL Cluster will be
 presented by MySQL core developers, expert trainers and MySQL community
 leaders. For more details on the event, please visit
 <a href="http://mysqlcomconeurope.com">http://mysqlcomconeurope.com/</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>OSCOM.4 with Apache Track</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[14-Aug-2004]</span>
 OSCOM, the international association for Open Source Content Management
 is arranging the <a href="http://oscom.org/events/oscom4/program/">Fourth
 Open Source Content Management Conference</a> from 29th September to 1st
 October in Zürich. This fall, the event features Apache Software Foundation
 projects, and PHP, so you have a chance to meet some prominent
 figures of the PHP scene there. OSCOM.4 is a place for developers,
 vendors, integrators and users to mingle and learn from each other. <a
 href="http://oscom.org/events/oscom4/registration">Registration is
 now open</a>!
</p>

<hr />

<h1>New Installation Instructions</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[14-Aug-2004]</span>
 The latest online version of the PHP Manual contains a completely reorganized
 <a href="/install">Installation and Configuration</a> part, which is now
 divided into sections for individual platforms and servers to ease your first
 steps with PHP. The Windows installation instructions are completely
 revised, and now suggest you to set environment variables instead of moving 
 files. This way upgrades and configuration changes become easier.
</p>

<hr />

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<a name="5.0.1"></a>
<h1>PHP 5.0.1 Released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[12-Aug-2004]</span>
 The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate availability of <a href="/downloads.php">PHP 5.0.1</a>.
 This is a maintenance release that in addition to many non-critical bug fixes also includes new UNIX and
 Windows installation docs which are now auto-generated from the PHP Manual.
</p>

<p>
 For changes since PHP 5.0.0, please consult the
 <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.0.1">ChangeLog</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>PHP Tunisie Magazine</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[02-Aug-2004]</span>
 <a href="http://www.phptunisie.net/">PHP Tunisie</a> has just released the 
 <a href="http://www.phptunisie.net/formation/downloadmagazine/2/1/">second 
 issue</a> of its monthly french PHP Magazine. In this issue you'll find
 a large plan on PostgreSQL, Databases abstractions with PHP, your mini
 template engine, an article on images generation with PHP, the migration
 towards PHP5 with EasyPHP1.7...  And many other articles and latests PHP news.
</p>
<p>
 PHP Tunisie Magazine is edited by the Tunisian PHP Users Group.
</p>

<hr />

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<a name="5.0.0"></a>
<h1>PHP 5.0.0 Released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[13-Jul-2004]</span>
 The PHP team is proud to announce the <a href="/downloads.php#v5">final release of PHP 5</a>!
</p>

<p>Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:</p>

<ul>
 <li>
  The <a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/zend-engine2.php">Zend Engine II</a>
  with a new object model and dozens of new features.
 </li>
 <li>
  XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now
  focused around the excellent libxml2 library
  (<a href="http://www.xmlsoft.org/">http://www.xmlsoft.org/</a>).
 </li>
 <li>
  A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as
  PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.
 </li>
 <li>
  A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
 </li>
 <li>
  A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later.
  This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to
  a traditional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL's new features,
  such as prepared statements.
 </li>
 <li>
  SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite,
  please visit <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/">their website</a>.
 </li>
 <li>
  Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access
  low-level socket operations on streams.
 </li>
 <li>And lots more...</li>
</ul>

<p>
 For changes since Release Candidate 3, please consult the
 <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.0.0">ChangeLog</a>.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>PHP 4.3.8 released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[13-Jul-2004]</span>
 PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate availability of <a href="/downloads.php">PHP 4.3.8</a>.
 This release is made in response to several security issues that have been discovered since the
 4.3.7 release. All users of PHP are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PHP 4.3.8 as soon as possible.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>International PHP Conference 2004</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[18-Jun-2004]</span>
 The traditional International PHP Conference 2004 will be taking
 place from 7th November to 10th November in Frankfurt (FFM). The
 Call for Papers has been issued, so if you have an interesting
 talk, the organizers would love to hear about it! You can expect
 a gathering of PHP experts and core developers.
</p>
<p>
 You can find the CfP <a href="http://www.phpconference.de/2004/cfp_en.php">on
 the website</a>. The deadline is 16th July, 2004.
</p>
<p>
 The conference is also featuring an <strong>OpenSource Exhibition</strong>
 where PHP related OpenSource projects can present themselves for free.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>php|works - early-bird discount now in effect</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[16-Jun-2004]</span>
 <a href="http://www.phparch.com">php|architect</a> magazine is proud to
 introduce <a href="http://www.phparch.com/phpworks">php|works 2004</a>, a
 three-day conference on PHP and the business of open-source software that
 will be held in Toronto, Canada, September 22-24 2004.
</p>
<p>
 The conference includes a total of over 30 hours of technical and
 business-oriented presentations that range from Rasmus Lerdorf's "Best
 Practices for PHP Developers" to "Getting your OSS Business Funded",
 presented by venture capital specialist Christian Mayaud. Other sessions
 include practical talks on PHP 5, regular expressions, multilingual
 development, PDO, XML and OOP. The business track includes sessions on the
 use of PHP in the legal, financial and healthcare industry, growing your
 business with OSS, the status of the PHP market and much, much more!
</p>
<p>
 As an added bonus, attendees who sign up before July 20th are
 eligible for up to $100 in early-bird savings.
</p>
<p>
 For more information, visit the <a
 href="http://www.phparch.com/phpworks">php|works website</a>.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>LAMP area at LinuxTag 2004 in Karlsruhe, Germany</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[14-Jun-2004]</span>
 The LAMP area will highlight the use of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP as
 technologies for enterprise applications at <a
 href="http://linuxtag.de">LinuxTag 2004</a> in Karlsruhe, Germany from June 23
 to 26. The companies that are presenting in the speakers area of the 150
 square meters booth are: <a href="http://100days.de">100days</a>, <a
 href="http://ez.no">eZ systems</a>, <a
 href="http://thinkphp.de">Mayflower</a>, <a href="http://mysql.com">MySQL</a>
 and <a href="http://zend.com">Zend</a>.
</p>

<p>
 Besides presentations from the above companies the LAMP area also presents
 over 40 sessions by Apache-, MySQL- and PHP-developers, such as Rasmus Lerdorf,
 Ken Coar and Brian Aker. Entrance to LinuxTag is free if you
 <a href="https://www.linuxtag.org/2004/registrationform.html">pre-register</a>.
 For more information see <a href="http://lamparea.org/en">the LAMP Area</a>
 website.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>PHP 5 Release Candidate 3 Released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[8-Jun-2004]</span>
 The <a href="/downloads.php#v5">third (and hopefully final) Release Candidate
 of PHP 5</a> is now available!  This mostly bug fix release improves PHP 5's
 stability and irons out some of the remaining issues before PHP 5 can be
 deemed release quality.  Everyone is now encouraged to start playing with it!
</p>

<p>There are few changes changes since Release Candidate 2, which can be found
<a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.0.0RC3">here</a>.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>Zend's PHP 5 Coding Contest</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[06-Jun-2004]</span>
 <a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/contest/">Zend's
 PHP 5 Coding Contest</a> is underway and accepting submissions. 
 This is every developer's chance to flaunt their PHP 5 skills
 and let their application shine!
</p>

<p>
 Applications will be rated both by your peers and by a panel of
 judges assembled from among the most known and well-respected
 names in the PHP community. 
</p>

<p>
 Lots of <a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/contest/prizes.php">prizes</a>
 are available!
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>PHP 5 Release Candidate 2 Released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[25-Apr-2004]</span>
 The <a href="/downloads.php#v5">second Release Candidate of PHP 5</a> is now
 available! This mostly bug fix release improves PHP 5's stability and irons out
 some of the remaining issues before PHP 5 can be deemed release quality. Note
 that it is still <i>not</i> recommended for mission-critical use but people are
 encouraged to start playing with it and report any problems.
</p>

<p>Key changes since Release Candidate 1 include:</p>

<ul>
 <li>
  The Zend Engine I compatibility mode (zend.ze1_compatibility_mode) has been
  re-implemented to more accurately support PHP 4's object auto-clone behavior.
 </li>
 <li>
  All object-oriented extensions except for MySQLi have moved to studlyCaps.
  This includes SQLite, SOAP, Reflection API, Ming and others.
 </li>
 <li>
  Implementing an interfaces and/or abstract method with the wrong prototype is
  now a fatal error. For backwards compatibility, re-implementing regular methods
  with the wrong prototype will only result in an E_STRICT warning.
 </li>
 <li>
  Features as described in the Release Candidate 1
  <a href="/index.php#5.0.0RC1">release announcement</a>
 </li>
 <li>And lots more...</li>
</ul>

<p>
 For changes since Release Candidate 1, please consult the
 <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.0.0RC2">ChangeLog</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>Second PHP Marathon announced</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[06-Apr-2004]</span>
 DotGeek.org is proud to announce the <a href="http://marathon.dotgeek.org/">second
 PHP Programming Marathon</a> to be held on the 24 April 2004. Instead of receiving the
 problems and composing your solutions offline, it all takes place online and within
 a specific timeframe. The Marathon is kindly sponsored by Zend Technologies and will
 now feature a problem on PHP 5. Participation is free of charge.
</p>

<hr />

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<a name="5.0.0RC1"></a>
<h1>PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 Released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[18-Mar-2004]</span>
 The <a href="/downloads.php#v5">first Release Candidate of PHP 5</a> is finally
 here!  The move from Beta stage to RC stage means that PHP 5 is now feature
 complete, and is quite stable - stable enough for everyone to start playing
 with.  Note that it is still <i>not</i> recommended for mission-critical
 use.
</p>

<p>Some of the key features of PHP 5 include:</p>

<ul>
 <li>
  The <a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/zend-engine2.php">Zend Engine II</a>
  with a new object model and dozens of new features.
 </li>
 <li>
  XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now
  focused around the excellent libxml2 library
  (<a href="http://www.xmlsoft.org/">http://www.xmlsoft.org/</a>).
 </li>
 <li>
  A new MySQL extension named MySQLi for developers using MySQL 4.1 and later.
  This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to
  a traditional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL's new features,
  such as prepared statements.
 </li>
 <li>
  SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite,
  please visit <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/">their website</a>.
 </li>
 <li>
  A brand new built-in SOAP extension for interoperability with Web Services.
 </li>
 <li>
  A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as
  PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.
 </li>
 <li>
  Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access
  low-level socket operations on streams.
 </li>
 <li>And lots more...</li>
</ul>

<p>
 For changes since Beta 4, please consult the
 <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.0.0RC1">ChangeLog</a>.
</p>

<hr />

<h1>Spanish PHP Mailing List Now at PHP.net</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[29-Feb-2004]</span>
 The Spanish PHP mailing list was relocated to our list server.
 If you would like to subscribe to the list, you can do it via our
 <a href="mailing-lists.php">mailing lists page</a>. To read
 the archives, please see <a href="http://news.php.net/">our
 news server</a>.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>International PHP Conference 2004 Amsterdam: Timetable and Open Source PHP projects</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[27-Feb-2004]</span>
 Having the CfP over now, the organizers of the
 <a href="http://www.phpconference.com/">International PHP Conference
 2004 Spring Edition Amsterdam</a> have published the
 <a href="http://www.phpconference.com/proxy/proxy.php?CatID=0&amp;NewsID=374">session
 and workshop timetable</a>. The Conference features 32 sessions and two
 power workshops. It will happen again at <a
 href="http://www.phpconference.com/content/content2.php?CatID=0&amp;NewsID=356">the
 RAI Conference Centre, Amsterdam</a>.
</p>
<p>
 <strong>Open Source PHP projects</strong> can present themselves, like in
 the last years, for free on the Conference at the exhibition area between
 the commercial exhibitors. Take your chance and contact
 <a href="mailto:fstepan@entwickler.com">Frank Stepan</a> from
 Software &amp; Support.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>Conf&eacute;rence PHP Qu&eacute;bec 2004 - (Montr&eacute;al, March 25&amp;26rst, 2004)</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[11-Feb-2004]</span>
 The PHP Qu&eacute;bec Association announces the <a
 href="http://conf.phpquebec.com/">Conference PHP Qu&eacute;bec 2004</a>.
 The conference features 20 sessions over 2 days, in English and French.
 3 tracks : PHP advanced technics, PHP professionnal and Open Source technologies.
 It will take place downtown Montr&eacute;al, Qu&eacute;bec, Canada.
</p>
<p>
 We are currently offering <a 
 href="http://conf.phpquebec.org/main.php/en/conf2004/tarif">early bird prices</a>.
 Students and Small Businesses are eligible for reduced prices.
 Buy your tickets early to get rebates and discount with the DVD!
</p>
<p>
 Learn more about those exciting days at 
 <a href="http://conf.phpquebec.org/">conf.phpquebec.com</a>.
</p>

<hr />

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<h1>PaWS Tickets Now On Sale!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[05-Feb-2004]</span>
 The <a href="http://www.pawscon.com/">PaWS Group</a> is proud to announce that
 tickets are now available for the first 
 <a href="http://www.pawscon.com/">PHP and Web Standards Conference</a>. We are
 offering Weekend tickets (Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd only) as well as Conference
 tickets (Friday 20th - Tuesday 24th) for the entire length of the event. 
 Additionally, we also have Daily tickets available for each day of the conference.
 Tickets will also be available on the door for those that simply want to drop in.
</p>
<p>
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