Tobias Schlitt has posted about this year's FrOSCon conference happening August 23rd and 24th near Bonn.

One of the most amazing German OS events is right in front of the door. Since the organizers of the FrOSCon expect a massive ammount of visitors, they ask everyone kindly to register on their website. If you did not do so, yet, take your heels and do so!

He mentions some of the "PHP VIP" that'll be there including Marcus Boerger, Derick Rethans and Rasmus Lerdorf as well as the dedicated PHP track they'll have this year. You can find out more information about the conference from the PHP@FrOSCon website.

New on the Developer Tutorials blog today is this look at handling background processes from your PHP script:

You've checked and double checked the integrity of user input, and you're doing some serious processing. There's only one problem: it's too slow. There's a simple solution: forking your processing script, and running the code as a background process asynchronously. It can email your user when it's done: they'll wait. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to get started with background processes in PHP.

Akash gives examples of the three keys to background processes - starting the script via an exec, talking to the process by passing additional parameters and including code to monitor the state of the background process via something like a MySQL "sessions" table that the script writes to.

Devshed continues their series looking at the use of destructors in PHP5 applications with part three, a method for keeping track of objects you've created during execution.

In this third part of the series, I'm going to show you how to retrieve some useful information about a specific object, including its properties and methods, prior to its being destroyed by the PHP parser via the implementation of a simple destructor.

Their new user class extracts the details about each of the objects right before they're destroyed via a call to get_object_vars and a loop to display the property and its value.

The admins over on the PHP-GTK Community site have announced a new resource PHP-GTK ircers can take advantage of - a new bot that hangs out in the #php-gtk channel over on the Freenode IRC network with an aim to be as helpful as possible.

The PHP-GTK.eu community site is now host to an IRC bot named Gataka (for "GTK"), helping users on the Freenode IRC channel for PHP-GTK, at irc://irc.freenode.net/php-gtk.

Currently is has an API interface (for PHP-GTK elements), user tracking and the ability to learn factoids. They're even starting to look for input regarding new features (log publication, in this case).

Greg Beaver points out the numerous releases that were made in the PEAR community today - including an update to the PEAR website itself.

OK, today's release party wins. I've just uploaded the 8th package for release, and it's a very significant day of releases.

The three updates made today are:

• An update to the PEAR website that allows for patch tracking in the bug tracker
• The latest version of PHP_ParserGenerator - version 0.1.5
• and the release of the first, full-featured parser for PHP - PHP_Parser along with a "companion", PHP_Parser_DocblockParser

On Dotvoid.com, there's a new post that reminds us of two of the more "ajaxified" features of the new releases of PHP 5 (like 5.2) - the JSON extension and the functionality to track file uploads.

These features aren't competing for the heavy weight title in the release notes. Still, having these implemented in PHP makes it a lot easier to develop modern, more responsive, web based applications.

You can get more info on the JSON extension here and an example of the file upload monitor in this entry on the Bitflux blog.

Tobias Schlitt posts today about the release of the program of the PHP track for this year's Free and Open Source Conference.

We finally managed to get the program online for the professional PHP track at the Free and Open Source Conference 2006, which takes place on the next weekend (June 24th and 25th) in Bonn, Germany. We will have 6 PHP related talks on Saturday, held by professional PHP developers, and a hackaton event on Sunday. Everyone is invited to join us and have a good time.

He lists the selected talks as well, including "Using Geeklog as a Web Application Framework", "SVG and AJAX", and "XMLReader/Writer".

According to this forum post on the NeoSmart message boards, there's a new "0-day vulnerability" that they've discovered in the phpBB message board system.

Since this bug has just broken today, there's no response from phpBB as of yet with a patch, but expect it soon if this issue is as important as the post mentions.