The February issue of the php|architect magazine has been published with a focus on community. This latest release includes articles like:

• "Running a PHP User Group" (John Congdon)
• "I’m the Organizer, Now What?" (Chris Stone)
• "Hackathons: Five Steps to Awesome Sauce" (Matthew Davis)
• "The Case For Open Source Software Contribution" (Andrew Podner)
• "Bug Zapper: ZendFormForm a New Friend?" (Bart McLeod)

You can order a single issue for about $5 USD or you can get a full year's subscription for just $35 USD. To check out some of the back issues, take a look in their archives.

Damien Seguy has posted the PHP statistics for this month - the results from February 2008 - here's some of the highlights:

• PHP 5 set record of growth : + 2,5%, up to 32%
• PHP 5.2 is the second most popular version, ahead of 4.3.
• PHP 4.4.8's popularity is falling

You can check out the numbers yourself for the month as well as the evolution stats showing how things are progressing. He's also added a new graph this month showing the adoption rate that PHP5 is having in the online world.

Terry Chay, a popular speaker at many of the PHP conferences and photog to the geek chic crowd in San Francisco, will be speaking at the upcoming PHP Meetup for the SF PHP group. He'll be giving a talk titled "OOps! The PHP Fear and Loathing Guide to OO Design".

How does the PHP developer in the trenches create powerful object-orientation code? By doing what the PHP's architects did, of course: cherry picking the most pragmatic of OOP principles and patterns! This talk is targeted at the PHP developer who has basic knowledge of PHP OOP syntax but wants to find out where OOP principles can fit into a program.

If you'd like to attend, head over to the meetup page for the event and let them know you're coming. It'll be happening at the CNet Network offices February 7th @ 7pm.

DynamicWebPages.de has posted their new statistics for PHP usage in the community for this past month:

After the small decrease in the last month, PHP made it back up easily. For the first time since April 2006, the 20 million mark on the number of domains has been passed. In contrast to the previous month that means a jump of nearly 800,000 domains. The number of IP addresses, on which PHP is installed, also has numbers worth checking out. With 1,332,514 IP addresses on record, this month's numbers are the highest conditions since September 2004.

You can check out the graph and the statistics for the last year in their statistics page of their site.

DynamicWebPages.de has posted their new statistics for PHP usage in the community for this past month:

After the small decrease in the last month, PHP made it back up easily. For the first time since April 2006, the 20 million mark on the number of domains has been passed. In contrast to the previous month that means a jump of nearly 800,000 domains. The number of IP addresses, on which PHP is installed, also has numbers worth checking out. With 1,332,514 IP addresses on record, this month's numbers are the highest conditions since September 2004.

You can check out the graph and the statistics for the last year in their statistics page of their site.

php|architect magazine has released their latest issue for February 2006.

In this month's issue, the stories include:

• the cover article from Derick Rethans that takes a look at the popular component framework - eZ components
• Daniel Kushner talks about the creation/success of the Zend Certification
• an article from Marco Tabini that looks at "doing it Japanese style" - using simplicicty to reduce errors
• Marcus Baker talks, in his column Test Patterns, about how one can develop their apps (methods of development)

If you're not already a subscriber, you can check out this latest issue's coneents and order your copy today. Single issues are about $3.50 USD for PDF ($8.50 for print) and the subscription is only $35.39 USD for PDF ($40 USD for print).

php|architect magazine has released their latest issue for February 2006.

In this month's issue, the stories include:

• the cover article from Derick Rethans that takes a look at the popular component framework - eZ components
• Daniel Kushner talks about the creation/success of the Zend Certification
• an article from Marco Tabini that looks at "doing it Japanese style" - using simplicicty to reduce errors
• Marcus Baker talks, in his column Test Patterns, about how one can develop their apps (methods of development)

If you're not already a subscriber, you can check out this latest issue's coneents and order your copy today. Single issues are about $3.50 USD for PDF ($8.50 for print) and the subscription is only $35.39 USD for PDF ($40 USD for print).

From Richard Miller's blog today, there's a new post with content from the Utah PHP Users Group meeting that's just passed (Feb. 2006) on the topic of custom 404 pages.

When you try to visit a web page that doesn't exist, the server usually returns a 404 error message - "Page Not Found". At the Utah PHP Users group meeting last Thursday, Mac Newbold presented on custom 404 pages. Custom 404 pages can help maintain your website branding, help you fix broken links, and help your users find something useful when they don't find what they're looking for.

Custom 404 pages are even more powerful when you combine them with PHP. I certainly didn't expect the flood of ideas that Mac presented for using custom 404 pages.

Among the suggestions of things to do with the error pages are things like: sending an email when someone gets a 404, search the site for something similar, use it as a redirect for old to new URLs, and more.

From Richard Miller's blog today, there's a new post with content from the Utah PHP Users Group meeting that's just passed (Feb. 2006) on the topic of custom 404 pages.

When you try to visit a web page that doesn't exist, the server usually returns a 404 error message - "Page Not Found". At the Utah PHP Users group meeting last Thursday, Mac Newbold presented on custom 404 pages. Custom 404 pages can help maintain your website branding, help you fix broken links, and help your users find something useful when they don't find what they're looking for.

Custom 404 pages are even more powerful when you combine them with PHP. I certainly didn't expect the flood of ideas that Mac presented for using custom 404 pages.

Among the suggestions of things to do with the error pages are things like: sending an email when someone gets a 404, search the site for something similar, use it as a redirect for old to new URLs, and more.

According to this new post on the PHP Magazine site today, the latest edition - the February 2006 Issue - of the International PHP Magazine has been released.

Topics covered in this issue include:

• Building Ning Apps - by David Sklar
• a look at SimpleXML in PHP - by Thomas Myer
• Code Generation Techniques - by Jon Ramsey
• "Navigating the maze of Phorum" - by Brent Knigge, Boulos Mansour and Andy Cachia
• and a spotlight on KINKY, an application framework with over 300 modules

You can check out the full detailed table of contents for every article in the issue, or just hop on over and puchase the issue today - a single issue only costs around $5.00 USD.