Based on his Beyond Frameworks session presented at this year's PHP UK Conference 2011, Stuart Herbert is in the process of creating a series of posts based about its contents:

[In my session] I explained how a component-based architecture can help answer some of the important (i.e. expensive!) questions you might face when creating long-lived apps that rely on a PHP framework. In this series of blog posts, I’m going to look at how to go about creating and working with components.

As of the time of this post, there's three different sections - "Getting Started", "The Tools We Use" and "Working with PHP Components" - and lots of posts to match. The large part of the series has been focused in the components area with articles about planning, unit tests and making PEAR-compatible packages.

On the Zend.com site today there's a drawing you can enter for a chance to win a free pass to the PHP UK Conference happening in February (the 25th) in London.

The PHP London user group’s sixth annual PHP UK Conference is a full-day event of lectures and networking for web developers and managers at the Business Design Centre in central London on Friday 25 February 2011. Enter now, and possibly win a registration to this exciting event, worth £130!

The drawing will end on February 14th so be sure to put your name in for a chance to win a pass. Talks being presented at this year's event include topics such as advanced OOP patterns, frameworks, continuous improvement, NoSQL, Amazon EC2 and Xdebug. You can find out more about the conference in general on the PHP UK website.