The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest in their "It's the Booze Talking" series. In these shows host Cal Evans is joined by several members of the PHP community to discuss certain topics. In this latest show they talk about frameworks.

Cal is joined by representatives for several popular PHP frameworks including Ryan Weaver (Symfony), Clark Everetts (Zend), Joe Ferguson (Laravel) and Rob Allen (Zend Framework, Slim). Other panel members include Cathy Evans, Kara Ferguson and Chris Tankersley. They talk about their own experience with frameworks in the PHP community, Composer, PHP the Right Way and several other topics.

You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to the feed and follow them on Twitter for updates on when the latest shows are released.

Fabien Potencier has a quick post to his site that may be of interests to the Symfony developers out there related to directory updates coming in Symfony 4:

After a long discussion in the community, the directory structure has been slightly changed.

etc/ was renamed to config/, and web/ to public/. My blog posts about Symfony 4 have just been updated to reflect these changes.

He also includes instructions about how, if you're already running a Symfony Flex application, you can make these changes manually including updating the Flex version.

The Three Devs and a Maybe podcast, hosted by Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann, has posted their latest episode: Carry on Coding.

In this weeks episode we start off discussion with experiences handling online payments, CRM export integration and highlight how PHPStorm can be a great SQL editor. We then move on to mention a service that allows you to easily manage browser polyfills, and Edd chats about his experience currently making a Nokia ringtone composer web application. Finally, we touch upon handling transactional email, depending on third-party services and using Continuation-passing style within JavaScript.

You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter for updates when new shows are released.

Freek Van der Herten has a new post to his site sharing a resource you can use to more easily keep up with PHP internals and RFCs - the externals.io service.

When features get added to PHP there’s a lot of discussion first about the new functionality. This is done on the so-called internals mailing list. You can try to follow the discussions via a rather ugly interface at http://news.php.net. The site looks like a very old school web email client where all conversations are just running through each other.

A couple of days ago Matthieu Napoli launched his new site externals.io. This site makes following internals a lot easier.

The externals.io site provides a clean interface to the discussions happening on the php.internals list, including nested threads and the ability to track unread messages. It definitely makes it simpler to keep track of the line of emails in a thread, but it's definitely read-only with no intent on being a full on mailing list replacement.

The PHP Roundtable, with host and PHP community member Sammy K Powers, has posted a new episode featuring a discussion about Asynchronous PHP. In this show Sammy is joined by guests Christopher Pitt, Sara Golemon and Aaron Piotrowski.

Async? Isn't that like AJAX in Javascript or something? Most PHP developers encounter asynchronous code for the first time in Javascript, but not many are aware that PHP can do async too. We discuss asynchronous programming in PHP and how we might be able to implement it in our own projects using various libraries. We also take a look at how async features could be added to PHP core to support async natively.

There's plenty of detail in the show notes for this episode covering all of the topics mentioned and links to some other resources you can use to find out more about asynchronous development in PHP. You can listen/watch this latest episode either through the in-page video player or directly on YouTube. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter for the latest updates when new shows are released.

The PHP Town Hall podcast, hosted by PHP community members Phil Sturgeon and Ben Edmunds, has posted their latest episode - a discussion with Jenny Wong about Codes of Conduct and more specifically the effort to try to adopt one for PHP.

Whilst all three of us think a Code of Conduct is a good idea, we talk through some of the various for and against reasoning that people have, and try to outline the logical failures behind some of the FUD being spread around during this discussion.

We cover a few things, from the intent of a Code of Conduct, explain it’s reach is not as scary as many seem to think, outline a few things that a Code of Conduct does not try to do, and talk about some of the problems minorities have at conferences and online which could be simplified over time with a useful CoC.

The goal behind the show is to try and help "open some minds" and bring a constructive approach to discussing the Code of Conduct without the usual (and unfortunate) reactions we've already seen from the community. You can listen to this latest podcast through the in-page video player or directly on YouTube. If you enjoy the show and want to check out past and future shows you can subscribe to their RSS feeds.

On Reddit.com's /r/php subreddit there's a discussion that's started up around this video that proposes some of the differences between a framework and a library.

Many people have asked me this question before. It's sometimes hard to get a straight answer, but if we remove all of moot details, use cases, and focus simply on the architectural design details the difference becomes quite clear. This video attempts to explain this difference in a relatively simple and straight-forward manner.

The conversation doesn't just talk about PHP frameworks specifically. There's also some mention of things like jQuery from other programming communities. There's plenty of suggested definitions in the conversation but most revolve around two ideas: that the library is a "tool" to use when needed and the framework is the structure of the application (hence "framework") that "uses you".

The Symfony blog pas posted something they're calling the Symfony 500 + 100 Challenge, an effort to kickstart some backlog cleanup of the number of issues currently in the project's backlog.

The end of the year is approaching, and we think that this is the best time to do some backlog cleaning before fresh starting the new year. Right now there are 728 pending issues in symfony/symfony repository and 177 issues in symfony/symfony-docs.

Some of those issues were reported a long time ago and they probably refer to Symfony versions that are no longer maintained. Others would have been fixed but not closed and there could also be some duplicates. That's why we ask your help to review all the pending issues in order to close irrelevant issues and achieve much more manageable levels: 500 issues or less for symfony/symfony and 100 issues or less for symfony/symfony-docs.

If you're interested in helping out, they've included a few steps to get you started locating and claiming an issue for you to work on. They also make suggestions on how to report back issues found on bugs, feature requests and general discussion items.

That Podcast, with PHP community member hosts Beau Simensen and Dave Marshall, has released their latest episode today: Episode #12, The one where we find the time to discuss not finding the time.

Beau and Dave take time out of there busy schedules to discuss what they've been up to recently and get in to the how they do or don't find the time for side projects and open source, in and around work and family.

There's lots of different topics touched on in this episode including:

• Docker announce Machine, Swarm and Compose
• the PHPBenelux Conference 2015
• Google's Material Design
• 24 Pull Requests
• SensioLabs Insight
• vlucas/phpdotenv
• PSR-0 Resource Locator

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in page player or by downloading the mp3 for listening offline. If you enjoy the episode be sure to subscribe to their feed too!

Pascal Martin has posted his latest summary of the discussions happening on the php.internals mailing list for the month of October 2014.

809 messages have been exchanged in October 2014 on PHP’s internals@ mailing-list — a bit more than in September. [...] First of all, PHP 5.6 has entered its normal cycle of releases, with a first maintenance version at the beginning of the month.

He includes a graph of the (monthly) number of emails over the last year and how October fits in. Topics mentioned include:

• an RFC to remove deprecated functionality in PHP7
• the RFC for the PHP7 release timeline
• Flagging functions as deprecated in favor of variadic functions
• Getting the XML output of a phpdbg tool closer to the DBGp protocol
• an RFC for big integer support
• an proposal for allowing objects as hash keys

If you'd like to follow along with the discussions or are interested in getting an "inside look" at what's going on with the language, you can use either the web-based reader or subscribe to the mailing list.