Chris Jones has posted a wrapup of day one at this year's OpenWorld happening in San Francisco. This first day included the hands-on PHP sessions open to anyone that wanted to come experience the combination of this powerful language and database firsthand.

The PHP Hands-On-Labs went smoothly today. What a pleasant feeling! There was great interest - all but two seats had been pre-booked for the first lab - and lots of studious work done.

He gives thanks to the people that helped out and mentions some issues they had with some of the PHP demonstrations there at the booth. He mentions Levi Dixon and Nicholas Tang's talk called Building and Deploying Web-Scale Social Networking Applications, Using PHP and Oracle Database coming Tuesday and a paper that might be useful to PHP developers using Oracle - Best Practices for Developing Performant Applications for Oracle Database 11g.

Headed to this year's Open World? Want to see more PHP-related talks? Christopher Jones suggests two talks that you should nominate and check out this year's conference:

As expected, DB-centric sessions have the early running with most interest. However if you want to see PHP more prominent at the conference, a couple of PHP sessions have registered: Internet Information Server and Oracle and Ignite Your Oracle and PHP Experience with CodeIgniter

You can find out more about these and other great talks (and complete conference information) on the Open World website.