The php|architect guys have released their latest P3 podcast, the newscast for June 19th, 2008:

P3 Newscast: We forgot to name it. Paul & Sean are back with a new newscast, on the heels of last week's Ramblecast.

Topics mentioned this time include the Pre-announcement of this year's php|works conference, the Firefox 3 release, several books that have recently been released and a few random rambling items tossed in.

To grab this latest show you can either subscribe to their feed and get it automatically delivered or you can just download the mp3 directly for a one-shot fix.

php|architect has released the latest episode of their P3 podcast series - an interview with Elizabeth Smith (the "Queen of Windows").

Here's an interview that Paul recorded with Elizabeth M. Smith, a while back. There's some good info in here on PHP on Windows. Paul & Elizabeth discuss builds, 5.3, and other related topics.

You can grab this latest show in one of two ways - either grab it directly or subscribe to their feed.

The latest episode of the php|architect P3 podcast has been posted today - the Newscast for May 15th, 2008.

Topics mentioned in this episode include:

• php|tek 2008 (and a possible Ramblecast)
• The updated SPL Data structures
• Multi Directory dll loading
• TestFest 2008
• XDebug in Debian

To get the show you can either download the mp3 directly or you can add their feed to your reader of choice and get the latest episodes hand delivered.

Matthew Turland set out a while back to develop a bot in PHP. The result of it is Phergie an "an IRC bot written in PHP 5 with an OO API" that can be extended with components for a wide variety of features. Another pleasant offshoot from his project is this first part of two articles on the C7Y community site detailing its creation.

The PHP Community channel on the Freenode IRC network, #phpc, had a longstanding bot called "Ai". Like many bots at the time of her creation, she was based on PHP 4. [...] With the coming end-of-life of PHP 4 and at the encouragement of channel users, I decided to start a project to develop a new bot based on PHP 5 that would fully utilize its new object model and offer users a chance to contribute to the bot they used in their channel.

Matthew talks about the initial stages of development (planning, research) and some of the development process of the bootstrap file, configuration file, and driver as well as the event handling.

The guys over at php|architect have released the latest episode of their P3 podcast for April 3rd. Some of the topics they look at include:

• internals talk on attic vs sibera and Phar
• Foreign Keys in MySQL
• April Fools on PHP
• and, of course, TestFest 2008

Two ways to get this new episode - grab the mp3 directly or subscribe to their feed and get the latest episodes automatically (but if you'd already subscribed, you'd know that already, now wouldn't you?)

The latest episode of the C7Y podcast P3 (from php|architect) has been posted. Topics mentioned in this episode include things like:

• Strings are FINALLY becoming first-class objects (Internals)
• PEAR and PHPClasses Merger
• ClonePHP (and a testimonial)

You can either download the episode directly or you can subscribe to their feed and get this and future episodes of this great podcast.

The C7Y Podcast (formerly the ProPHP Podcast) has released their latest episode - the newscast for March 20th, 2008. Here's some of the things that Sean and Paul talk about in this show:

• the Google Summer of Code
• the upcoming PHP 5.3 release
• Building PHP on Windows
• the release of version 1.5 of the Zend Framework

...and much more! You can get this latest episode in two different ways - either download the mp3 directly or you can subscribe to their feed and get this and other great episodes packed with news from all around the PHP community.

The folks over at php|architect have consolidated their community efforts (news, the podcast and their forums) all under one new website - the C7Y PHP Community Website.

Welcome to the new community site. We've still got a bit of finishing work to do, but I think everyone would agree that this is much better than the old site! Let us know what you think.

Rather than having their community efforts spread out over their current site, they decided on on centralized resource where people can get the latest news, check out the latest podcast and interact with fellow PHPers out there on the web.

Be sure to check it out for yourself and let them know what you think.