As mentioned in This new post by Federico Cargnelutti on the PHP::Impact blog today, the BBC website is about to get a pretty radical make over - a move from Perl and static files out to a fully dynamic site made with PHP and Java.

Like most organizations the BBC has its own technical ecosystem, the BBC's is pretty much restricted to Perl and static files. The good news is that they are planning to build a new infrastructure for bbc.co.uk and roll out a new Identity platform on it. This was announced on May during the XTech 2008 presentation that took place in Dublin, where BBC's plans to reinvigorate its technical platform were revealed.

The BBC wanted to upgrade their aging platform to something a bit newer and more flexible and wanted to be able to use things like the Zend Framework for the presentation layer and a MySQL backend to power the site.

The ThinkPHP blog has a (large) announcement posted today - the opening of the Call for Papers for the International PHP Conference 2007 - Spring Edition.

Mark your calendars from 21-23 May 2007! The Call for Papers is here.

This year's conference will be happening in May of 2007 and will be three days long. Some of the topics their wanting for this year's conference include Ajax, security, databases, best practices, and many more. More details on the content of the conference can be found on their site and you can submit your proposals on this site.