Kevin Schroder has posted a new announcement to his blog today about Zend's need for "beta testers" for the latest version of their PHP Certification exam (the 5.3 version).

Zend has recently teamed up with several of the top people in the PHP community to offer the PHP 5.3 Certification. It will be coming out in a few months, but before we can do that we need beta testers. That means YOU! If you want to participate all you need to do is fill out a quick qualification survey. These are the questions you will be asked (fill them out on the link, not on this page).

The survey will be open until July 15th (2010) and will ask you questions about your experience level with PHP overall and with PHP 5.3 as well as how much of your day is devoted to PHP and what best describes your role. If you'd like to give your feedback, go over and fill out the survey and get your name in.

Lukas Smith asks developers a question in his latest blog post: "Is your chosen framework on the PHP primary tester mailing list?"

This is a question you should be asking the developers of the framework you are using. Same of course goes for any PHP application you care about. [...] We announce all PHP releases on this list (actually until now we have only announced RC's, but we are expanding this to also cover alpha and beta releases).

He suggests that subscribing to this list simplifies the process of keeping up with the latest releases of PHP and gives them a chance to report back with any issues they might find with them.

Every release runs the risk of BC breaks, intentional or not. Projects that want to make life easy for their users participate actively in the process of testing PHP releases. It makes the life of the PHP developers a lot easier .. and who doesn't want to make their life's easier?

Want to try out the next major version of Delphi for PHP? Paul Gregg is looking for volunteers to be testers for the latest version of this CodeGear project.

CodeGear is looking for additional beta testers for the next major version of Delphi for PHP.

Those interested should check out this page and fill in the application to become a tester (just name, email address, experience using PHP tools and how much time you could devote to testing).

Want to try out the next major version of Delphi for PHP? Paul Gregg is looking for volunteers to be testers for the latest version of this CodeGear project.

CodeGear is looking for additional beta testers for the next major version of Delphi for PHP.

Those interested should check out this page and fill in the application to become a tester (just name, email address, experience using PHP tools and how much time you could devote to testing).

Stephen Kellett wrote in to let us know about some new software tools for working with PHP that are in beta testing now for the Windows environment.

If you'd like to sign up and become a beta tester for this software, check out this page to contact them with your information.

Stephen Kellett wrote in to let us know about some new software tools for working with PHP that are in beta testing now for the Windows environment.

If you'd like to sign up and become a beta tester for this software, check out this page to contact them with your information.