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Francois Zaninotto has posted about two upcoming instances where the Symfony Framework's presence can be seen - a conference about it in Paris and at the PHP Quebec Conference.

Two upcoming events may be of great interest for symfony fans. The French PHP User association (AFUP) organizes a conference about symfony 1.0 in Paris. [...] Also, the PHP Quebec Conference features two sessions about symfony, one in English and one in French.

The Paris confernece is happening on March 6th and the PHP Quebec Conference March 14th through the 16th in Montreal.

According to a new post on the main PHP site, the group putting on this year's PHP Quebec Conference (well, for 2007) has officially announced a call for papers.

We are currently looking for experts willing to share their knowledge and experience with IT professionals. This year the conference will includes three tracks: Advanced Techniques, Data Availability, and PHP Beyond Theory.

You can get the complete details on the conference and from their site and the details for submitting a proposal. Registration is even open if you want to take advantage of the Early Bird pricing - sign up today!

Graham Charters has posted a new item to the IBM developerWorks blog with pointers to the slides that he presented at the latest PHP Quebec conference covering the use of the SDO slides [pdf] I used at the PHP Quebec conference.

The conference was very well organised and there were a good number of very interesting talks. They don't appear to be available on the conference site, but Chris Shiflett's blog has a list of quite a few that are available elsewhere.

You can get more of the slides and information on the presentations from this year's edition from their official site or the gathering he mentions over on Chris' blog.

For those that weren't able to attend this year's PHP Quebec Conference (2006), several bloggers have mde their posts about their experiences there, including Andrei Zmievski.

In his post he not only mentions the actual conference - including mentions of his two talks, PHP6 and Unicode and PHP-GTK2 - but he also gives some of his experiences post-conference.

The post conference program for each day was full as well. On Thursday night we had a dinner for speakers and organizers at the always excellent Àla Decouverte, a small and cozy restaurant with a big taste.

On Friday night we made a visit to the ever popular Les Deux Pierrots [...] and Saturday morning found us at the Sucrerie de la Montagne, a "sugar shack" outside Montreal that lets you take a peek into the process of obtaining and making maple syrup and also manages to feed hundreds of visitors an hour at the rustic wooden tables in its giant restaurant.

Ilia Alshanetsky, a speaker at the just passed PHP Quebec Conference 2006, has posted his quick recap of the event and the slides from his two presentations.

Finally got a few moments to recap the PHP Quebec 2006 Conference, which as usual, was a great success and a great deal of fun. I'd like to thank the organizers for doing an amazing job and bringing a great group of people together from both the development and user communities. My talks during the conference went quite well, and I am especially happy with the PDO talk, this topic seemed of particular interest to the audience and I hope we'd get a couple of new PDO users out of it.

The two talks, one on PHP Security and the other an Introduction to PDO are available in PowerPoint and PDF forms:

• PHP Security: PowerPoint, PDF
• Introduction to PDO: PowerPoint, PDF

From Chris Shiflett today, there's a new post mentioning the talk he'll be giving at the upcoming PHP Quebec conference.

Next week, I'll be speaking at PHP Quebec in Montreal about testing PHP applications. Agile PHP Testing is a new talk that focuses on really simple approaches to testing, and I hope to demonstrate how creating a test suite is close to what you're probably already doing anyway.

The talk will cover agile PHP testing and will be a "no nonsense" look, with less theory talk and more actual hands-on time with the code.

From the main PHP page today, we learn about this year's PHP Quebec Conference being held March 29th through the 31st in the Montreal Plaza Hotel.

There will be three tracks with sessions under each:

• Advanced Techniques, the latest developments on the PHP platform.
• Professional, tools to make you more efficient during the development.
• Database, different solutions that can be used with PHP.

and speakers such as Rasmus Lerdorf, Andrei Zmeivski, Derick Rethans and Ilia Alshanetsky.

The tickets for the event are still under the Early-Bird Pricing (until March 1st) and, as a limited offer, you'll get a free CD or DVD of the conference free for signing up.

Robert Peake makes note today of his attendance and talks to be given at the upcoming PHP Quebec conference.

I have been selected to speak at PHP Quebec at the end of March. Given big names in PHP like Ilia Alshanetsky and Derick Rethans will be there, I am honored by this opportunity to share my experience bringing PHP to the enterprise. I will be talking about Enterprise PHP Coding Standards.

Some of the content of the speech is pulled from this PHP Magazine article and a few other blog posts...