Its the holiday season and even the PHP community is getting into the spirit. Much like last year, >Chris Shiflett (joined this time by >Sean Coates) have created this year's PHP Advent calendar.

From Chris Shiflett's blog:

Is it December again already? I like good traditions, so with the help of Sean and many others, PHP Advent is back again, this time with its own domain. I would call it a web site, but that might be stretching the truth at the moment. Jon is going to help us out with a simple design in the very near future. The focus, of course, is the quality content from our gracious authors.

The December 1st post for this year is one by yours truely - You Need the PHP Community. For more great content as the month goes on, you can keep up either through their feed, on Twitter or just by heading over to the site each day.

If you didn't get a chance to be a part of the live P3 podcast that marked the end of Sean Coates' time with the php|architect crew, you can check out the audio of it in the latest show on the podcast feed.

This is a recording from the P3 Live! Video/podcast we recorded on Tuesday July 29, 2008. Over 50 people joined Paul, Beth and Sean to watch the video stream and listen live. We even managed to cover some news, and talk to some people.

Special thanks to Evan Prodromou from http://identi.ca and Terry Chay for taking our phone calls, and especially to everyone who joined us for the party.

You can either subscribe to their feed and get it automatically or you can grab the mp3 directly.

As a reminder, the P3 podcast (from php|architect) will be hosting a live session tonight - Sean Coates' last time on the show via a live video feed on a Yahoo!Live page.

Please join us on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 for a special live edition of php|architect's P3 Podcast. It will be special not only because we will be be broadcasting video via Yahoo!Live, but it will also be Sean's last P3 podcast.

The show will be starting around 9PM Eastern (America/Montreal) and, for those that can't make it, the audio only will be recorded and put back in to the podcast's feed.

The P3 podcast (from the php|architect guys) has released their latest episode - "Three-Skype" (on July 3rd 2008).

Paul & Sean are joined by another of php|architect's trainers: Beth Tucker. We also called some of our friends in the PHP world for some PHP Horror Stories.

The show has mentions of php|works/PyPworks, PHP 5.3, lambdas, identi.ca and the release of Komodo 4.4.

You can either grab the file directly from the site or you can drop their feed's URL into your aggregator of choice and get the latest shows hand-delivered.

The php|architect guys have released their latest P3 podcast, the newscast for June 19th, 2008:

P3 Newscast: We forgot to name it. Paul & Sean are back with a new newscast, on the heels of last week's Ramblecast.

Topics mentioned this time include the Pre-announcement of this year's php|works conference, the Firefox 3 release, several books that have recently been released and a few random rambling items tossed in.

To grab this latest show you can either subscribe to their feed and get it automatically delivered or you can just download the mp3 directly for a one-shot fix.

Paul and Sean over at php|architect have released the latest episode of the P3 podcast for May 1st, 2008 - "The Twitter".

Still no resolution on the USB audio problem. iPod failed, too. That leaves us with 2 laptops and internal mics. I'm eagerly anticipating 10.5.3, and if that doesn't fix it, I'm going back to 10.5.1. Fail.

Topics mentions are php|tek (coming soon to a Chicago near you!), type hinting and the optimizer Google Summer of Code discussions on the Internals side and the "making WP themes from scratch" and Magento talk on the community side.

You can either pull their feed into your aggregator to get this and other great P3 episodes or you can just download the mp3 directly and enjoy.

The latest episode of the C7Y podcast P3 (from php|architect) has been posted. Topics mentioned in this episode include things like:

• Strings are FINALLY becoming first-class objects (Internals)
• PEAR and PHPClasses Merger
• ClonePHP (and a testimonial)

You can either download the episode directly or you can subscribe to their feed and get this and future episodes of this great podcast.

The Pro::PHP Podcast has released their latest episode of their newscasts - the show for January 24th, 2007.

Topics mentioned include:

• The new array syntax
• The DC PHP Conference Call for Papers
• Zend's "Zend Studio / Eclipse / PDT / Shiny / Neon"
• and Chris Shiflett's Advent Calendar

To get this latest episode, you can either download the show directly (mp3) or you can point your favorite aggregator at their feed and keep up to date.

Chris Shiflett has started up a PHP project for the holidays - a PHP Advent Calendar to share helpful hints and knowledge from members of the PHP community:

Welcome to the PHP Advent Calendar. If you are unfamiliar with the format of an Advent calendar, Wikipedia has a pretty good description. The PHP Advent Calendar is similar in spirit to the Perl Advent Calendar, a tradition the Perl community has sustained for several years.

So far he's posted the first (Sean Coates) and second (Elizabeth Naramore) days. Keep an eye on his blog for more holiday PHP goodness!

You can also keep track of the latest ones on this calendar Sean has put together as well as on our list below:

Days:

• Day 1: Sean Coates (using mail)
• Day 2: Elizabeth Naramore (documentation)
• Day 3: Sebastian Bergmann (finding bugs)
• Day 4: James McGlinn (Handling SSL/Non-SSL Redirection)
• Day 5: Cal Evans (lesser known resources)
• Day 6: Davey Shafik (UIs and APIs)
• Day 7: Elizabeth Smith (SPL to the Rescue)
• Day 8: Matthew Weier O'Phinney (Don't Reinvent the Wheel)
• Day 9: Ivo Jansch (Design Patterns)
• Day 10: Chris Cornutt (Planning)
• Day 11: Ben Ramsey (Getting Involved in the PHP Community)
• Day 12: Ed Finkler (Making Assumptions & Asking Questions)
• Day 13: Terry Chay (web site security)
• Day 14: David Sklar (timing and profiling)
• Day 15: Paul Reinheimer (channels and output)
• Day 16: Jeff Moore ("What We Can Learn about Software Development from a Failing Restaurant")
• Day 17: Ilia Alshanetsky (grepping for parse errors)
• Day 18: Christian Wenz (WSDL despite PHP5)
• Day 19: Marcus Borger (using the Google charting API)
• Day 20: Adam Trachtenberg (SQLite)
• Day 21: Luke Welling (Follow the Big Dogs?)
• Day 22: Derick Rethans (Using the VLD tool)
• Day 23: Jay Pipes (Two PHP/MySQL Tips)
• Day 24: Nate Abele (Session Security)

The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest episode of their PHP Abstract podcast series - an interview with Sean Coates (of php|architect).

Today we are going to do something a little different. I was privileged to attend php|works in Atlanta. While there, between tasks, Sean Coats agreed to sit down with me and talk for a bit. Given his level of participation in php|works I was grateful for any time he was able to spare. Come listen as we talk about his work at php|architect, work on the PHP manual and programming in general. This is the first of a couple of interviews I was able to do at php|works.

As usual, you can grab just the mp3 directly, or you can subscribe to their feed and get this and tons more great PHP-related content (including talks on things like PHP and Oracle, attracting talent and looks at several of the popular frameworks like CodeIgniter, Solar and the Zend Framework).