In this new post to the Pehapkari.cz site they take a look at the PHP user groups all around the world and share some interesting statistics.

In April 2018 I started a side project to list meetups in Europe near Prague. PHP meetups are so much fun and I didn't find any single-page with a map that would list them. In the start, this site had a small table, with 10 meetups a month, very modern black/white Times New Roman design and advanced human-manual updating.

Since then I got feedback from dozens friends and users with this WTFs and ideas - they helped me to add feature now and then, polish a design with emoji and Bootstrap, automate everything and even crawl over 150 urls. I bought friendsofphp.org domain and the project became a standalone single page.

Based on the results shared in the post, there's over 1000 PHP-specific meetups all around the world! It also highlights the most active region (most meetups for the area): the area around Belgium. There's also a list of several cool features of the friendsofphp.orgsite and a more technical description of how the site works and gathers its data.

Fabien Pontencier has made an official announcement about a move to make the PHP Security Database the Symfony project started over a year ago. In the announcement he talks about the move to (hopefully) make it more widely adopted - pulling it out from under the Symfony namespace and into the FriendsOfPHP organization.

A year and a half ago, I was very proud to announce a new initiative to create a database of known security vulnerabilities for projects using Composer. It has been a great success so far; many people extended the database with their own advisories. As of today, we have vulnerabilities for Doctrine, DomPdf, Laravel, SabreDav, Swiftmailer, Twig, Yii, Zend Framework, and of course Symfony (we also have entries for some Symfony bundles like UserBundle, RestBundle, and JsTranslationBundle.)

[...] Today, I've decided to get one step further and to clarify my intent with this database: I don't want the database to be controlled by me or SensioLabs, I want to help people find libraries they must upgrade now. That's the reason why I've added a LICENSE for the database, which is now into the public domain.

The database has already been moved over to the FriendsOfSymfony organization and is still functioning with the SensioLabs security checker. You can find more on the database and its contents in this GitHub project.