Getting involved with the community behind PHP is not difficult, and everyone is welcome to participate to get involved. But whats this Getting involved thing ?In this session Ill explain what people can do to become part of the larger PHP community eco system, without committing code to the PHP core or other PHP related open source projects.Associated Slides

A behind-the-scenes look at how the popular PHP magazine operatespowered by open-source technologies and all of four people.

Zend Framework appears to be a gargantuan beast to the outsider looking in. Finding where to start and picking up the basic principals can be a real headache and a time consuming business for those new to the framework.Im going to break down that learning curve, with a few simple principals to get you started knowing where to look, so you can progress under your own steam with greater ease.Associated Slides

Zend_Tool is a great tool for use with Zend_Framework. It can be used to create base objects like forms, controllers, models; create actions within the system, set up directory structure and much much more .. all this from the command line.This talk will cover configuration and basic usage of the Zend_Tool.