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<h1>News Archive - 2003</h1>

<p>
 Here are the most important news items we have published in 2003 on PHP.net.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://vancouver.php.net/", "vancouver_conference_2004.gif", "Vancouver PHP Conference 2004"); ?>

<h1>Vancouver PHP Conference 2004</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[22-Dec-2003]</span>
 The Vancouver PHP Users Association presents <a href="http://vancouver.php.net/">The PHP Vancouver Conference</a>
 on January 22-23, a professional and technical conference focused on the PHP scripting language.
 The goal of this conference is to bring together some of the world's leading PHP developers and
 business professionals to share their experience with both students and PHP professionals in a series of talks.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>PHP Community Site Project Announced</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[18-Dec-2003]</span>
 Members of the PHP community are <a href="http://shiflett.org/archive/19">seeking
 volunteers</a> to help develop the first Web site that is created both by
 the community and for the community. The features of this project will be
 driven by the needs and desires of the community as much as possible and
 may include such things as blogs, news, FAQs, articles, links, and tutorials.
</p>
 <p>
 If you would like to contribute, please <a
 href="http://shiflett.org/contact">contact Chris Shiflett</a>, who is
 coordinating this project. There is a need for every type of contributor,
 including developers, translators, administrators, designers, writers, and
 advocates.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.php-mag.net/", "php-mag.gif", "International PHP Magazine"); ?>

<h1>PHP Magazine in PDF Format</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[15-Dec-2003]</span>
 <a href="http://software-support.biz/en">Software &amp; Support Media</a>,
 producers of the <a href="http://www.phpconference.de/2003/index_en.php">International
 PHP Conference</a>, are pleased to announce a new monthly version of their
 print publication, the "<a href="http://www.php-mag.net/">International
 PHP Magazine</a>", published in PDF format and distributed
 electronically. The first issue is available for free on
 <a href="http://www.php-mag.net/">the magazine's website</a>.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://conf.phpquebec.org/index.html", "conference_php_quebec.gif", "Conference PHP Quebec"); ?>

<h1>First PHP dedicated DVD released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[13-Dec-2003]</span>
 The PHP Qu&eacute;bec is pleased to announce the immediate availability
 of PHP Qu&eacute;bec DVD. Over 6 hours of conferences, recorded in
 Montr&eacute;al, in March 2003. DVD is subtitled in English and French,
 making legendary sessions from Rasmus and Zeev available anywhere
 in the world.
</p>
<p>
 This DVD makes a nice christmas present for every PHP enthusiast.
 Available in
 <a href="http://conf.phpquebec.org/main.php/en/dvd2003/main">English</a> or
 <a href="http://conf.phpquebec.org/main.php/fr/dvd2003/main">French</a>.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://mysql.com/events/uc2004", "mysqluc2004.png", "MySQL User Conference 2004"); ?>

<h1>Call for Participation: MySQL User Conference 2004</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[12-Dec-2003]</span>
 The <a href="http://mysql.com/events/uc2004/speakers.html">Call
 for Participation</a> for the 2004 MySQL User Conference is
 now open. MySQL is looking for sessions that speak to your peers:
 practical, pragmatic and clueful presentations that focus on how
 you solved problems in a demanding or unique technical environment.
 Additionally, the conference is looking for solid proposals for
 Bird-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions and Lightning Talks.
</p>
<p>
 The call for papers closes on January 14th. The call for BoFs and
 lightning talks closes on February 14th. The conference will take
 place on April 14th to 16th in Orlando, Florida, USA.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.phpconf.hu/", "hu_conf.gif", "Second Hungarian PHP conference"); ?>
<?php news_image("http://webdevmagazine.co.uk/conf/index_n.php", "bulgaria_2004.gif", "First Bulgarian PHP conference"); ?>

<h1>First Bulgarian and Second Hungarian PHP Conference</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[01-Dec-2003]</span>
 The <a href="http://webdevmagazine.co.uk/conf/index_n.php">First Bulgarian
 PHP conference</a> will be held within the framework of the 2004 Web Technology
 Conference in Sofia in March. The goal of the meeting is to discuss the trends and
 to popularize PHP among the business, education and services sectors. The organizers
 welcome proposals for sessions and company presentations.
</p>

<p>
 Also coming in March 2004 is the <a href="http://www.phpconf.hu/">Second Hungarian
 PHP Conference</a> building on last year's successful event. The Call For Papers is
 open for the conference, speakers are welcome to hold sessions and workshops ranging
 from PHP internals to web standard compliance. The event is exclusively in Hungarian.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://conf.phpquebec.org/index.html", "conference_php_quebec.gif", "Conference PHP Quebec"); ?>

<h1>Call for Speakers: PHP Qu&eacute;bec 2004</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[11-Nov-2003]</span>
 The PHP Qu&eacute;bec is pleased to announce the PHP Qu&eacute;bec
 conference 2004, which will be held on March, 25th&amp;26th 2004.
 We are looking for the best speakers, willing to
 share their experience and skills with the educated crowd of PHP
 programmers in eastern Canada and in the USA. PHP Qu&eacute;bec
 2004 features 3 distinct tracks:
 <ul>
  <li>
   Professional PHP, dealing with php usage in professional
   environment and unusual businesses.
  </li>
  <li>
   Technical PHP, covering indeep details of PHP technics.
  </li>
  <li>
   Free software, about any free software, closely related to PHP.
  </li>
 </ul>
 <a href="http://conf.phpquebec.com/">Sessions</a> will be held in
 <a href="http://conf.phpquebec.com/main.php/fr/accueil/main">French</a> or
 <a href="http://conf.phpquebec.com/main.php/en/accueil/main">English</a>.
 For more information, read the <a
 href="http://conf.phpquebec.org/main.php/en/conf2004/conferencier">PHP Qu&eacute;bec</a>.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>New function list auto completion</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[04-Nov-2003]</span>
 You can probably name at least one IDE providing support for PHP function name
 code completion. PHP.net is just <em>beta testing</em> the same feature
 <a href="/search.php">on the search page</a>. Try selecting the 'function
 list' lookup option and start typing in a function name in the search field.
 You can autocomplete the name with the space key and navigate in the dropdown
 with the up and down cursor keys. We welcome feedback on this feature at
 <a href="/contact.php">the webmasters email address</a>, but
 please submit any bugs you find <a href="http://bugs.php.net/">in the
 bug system</a> classifying them as a "PHP.net website problem" and providing
 as much information as possible (OS, Browser version, Javascript errors, etc..).
</p>

<hr>

<h1>PHP 4.3.4 released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[03-Nov-2003]</span>
 The PHP developers are proud to announce the immediate availability of
 <a href="release_4_3_4.php">PHP 4.3.4</a>. This release contains a fair
 number of bug fixes and we recommend that all users of PHP upgrade to
 this version. Full list of fixes can be found in the
 <a href="ChangeLog-4.php#4.3.4">ChangeLog</a>.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 released</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[30-Oct-2003]</span>
 <a href="/downloads.php">PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2</a> has been released.
 This is the first feature complete version of PHP 5, and we recommend for PHP users
 to try it. PHP 5 is still not ready for production use!
</p>
<p>
 Some of the more major changes include:
</p>
<ul>
 <li>
  PHP 5 features the Zend Engine 2.
 </li>
 <li>
  XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the
  excellent libxml2 library (<a href="http://www.xmlsoft.org/">http://www.xmlsoft.org/</a>).
 </li>
 <li>
  SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their
  <a href="http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/">website</a>.
 </li>
 <li>
  A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can
  also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa.
 </li>
 <li>
  Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket
  operations on streams.
 </li>
</ul>
<p>
 There have been many changes since Beta 1, some of them documented in the
 <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.0.0b2">ChangeLog</a> and most language
 changes are documented on <a href="/zend-engine-2.php">our PHP 5/Zend Engine 2 page</a>.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.afup.org/forumphp/", "afup2003.png", "Forum PHP"); ?>

<h1>Forum PHP in Paris, November 26 & 27th</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[26-Oct-2003]</span>
 The French PHP User Group <a href="http://www.afup.org/">AFUP association</a>
 is proud to announce the third annual PHP meeting in Paris,
 on November 26th and 27th, 2003. Developers and managers will
 gather to meet Zeev Suraski and other prominent community experts
 for two days of sessions, packed with
 <a href="http://www.afup.org/forumphp/">solutions and advanced techniques</a>
 (in French).
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.directionphp.biz/", "directionphp.png", "Direction|PHP"); ?>

<h1>Monthly PHP Magazine in French launched!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[15-Oct-2003]</span>
 <a href="http://www.nexen.net/">Nexen.net</a> has launched Direction|PHP,
 the first PHP and MySQL dedicated magazine in French. This monthly publication
 features indeep coverage of PHP industry, business and user cases and technical
 articles from PHP|Architect.
</p>
<p>
 For more information, read the <a
 href="http://www.directionphp.biz/index.php">Direction|PHP website</a> (in French).
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.apachecon.com/", "apachecon2003.jpg", "ApacheCon"); ?>

<h1>ApacheCon 2003, the Global Hub for All Things Apache</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[11-Oct-2003]</span>
 The <a href="http://www.apachecon.com/">official conference
 of the Apache Software Foundation</a> will be held November 16-20,
 2003 in Las Vegas. More than 60 sessions highlight core and
 next-generation Apache server tools, offering a wide
 range of beginner, intermediate and advanced sessions.
 Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, as
 well as key open source projects, including PHP, Perl,
 XML, Java, MySQL, and WebDAV.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.phpcruise.com/", "phpcruise.png", "php|cruise"); ?>

<h1>php|cruise: The World's First Ever PHP-only Cruise</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[20-Sep-2003]</span>
  The publishers of php|architect have announced <a
  href="http://www.phparch.com/cruise/">php|cruise</a>, a five-day cruise to the
  Bahamas Islands featuring a lot of fun and over thirty different
  sessions dedicated to PHP from well known experts like Wez Furlong, Alan
  Knowles and John Coggeshall.
</p>
<p>
 The cruise will take place March 1st to 5th, 2004. The organizers have
 <a href="http://www.phparch.com/cruise/contest/">announced a contest</a> to
 give away one free place on the cruise.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.zend.com/zend/php_survey_results.php", "zendtech_logo.gif", "Zend Technologies"); ?>

<h1>PHP Usage Survey Results</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[18-Sep-2003]</span>
 <a href="http://www.zend.com/zend/php_survey_results.php">Check out</a> the results
 of the PHP Usage Survey conducted by Zend Technologies, including feedback
 from thousands of PHP users around the world.  Thanks for all who contributed!
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://weblabor.hu/php-doc-chm", "chmhelp.gif", "CHM"); ?>

<h1>PHP Manual CHM Edition - 12th build</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[06-Sep-2003]</span>
 The 12th build of the extended CHM edition is out now, and
 <a href="/get/php_manual_chm_12.zip/from/a/mirror">available for download</a>.
 This build contains updated content and user notes, as well as fixes the
 bugs found in the previous build. A new optional "phpZ" skin is also
 introduced in this release, courtesy of Gonzalo De la Pena Andreu. For
 more information, visit <a href="http://weblabor.hu/php-doc-chm/">the
 homepage of this edition.</a>
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.phpconference.de/2003/index_en.php", "international_conference_2003.gif", "International PHP Conference 2003"); ?>

<h1>International PHP Conference 2003 program online</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[05-Sep-2003]</span>
 The organisers of the
 <a href="http://www.phpconference.de/2003/index_en.php">International
 PHP Conference</a> which will take place for the third time in Frankfurt,
 Germany from Nov. 2 to 5, 2003 have announced the conference program.
 The conference board which consists of Bjoern Schotte, Zak
 Greant, Zeev Suraski, Thies Arntzen and Jan Lehnardt has chosen more than
 40 sessions for the main program on Nov. 4 and 5 and 7 in-depth
 Power Workshops for the pre conference program on Nov. 2 and 3. Among the
 prominent speaking crowd is Zeev Suraski, Ken Coar and many others. See
 <a href="http://www.phpconference.de/2003/index_en.php">the conference
 website</a> for more information.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://servercentral.net", "server_central.gif", "Server Central"); ?>

<h1>Server Central Donates Server</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[28-Aug-2003]</span>
 Chicago-based company <a href="http://servercentral.net/">Server Central</a>
 has donated PHP.net a brand new server with a gigabit connection. The box is
 a quad 2.4GHz machine with 2GB ram, so we're going to be using it to power
 our more resource-intensive tasks, including building the manual. Thanks,
 Server Central!
</p>

<hr>

<h1>European Open Source Development Threatened!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[27-Aug-2003]</span>
 Today sees an international day of protest against the move by the EU to
 make obtaining a patent easier within Europe. Such patents may cause Open
 Source software such as PHP to infringe on existing licenses and new ones,
 meaning we would no longer be safe to distribute PHP within Europe. Contact
 your EU Representative to get this cruicial vote blocked. Find out more at
 the <a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/">campaign website</a>
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.php-con.com", "phpcon_2003.gif", "php{con west 2003"); ?>

<h1>php{con west is announced</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[26-Aug-2003]</span>
 php{con returns to the San Francisco Bay Area with new sessions, PHP gurus
 and a whole new day of PHP-intensive learning. Their program features a full
 day of tutorials, three technical session tracks over two days, an all day
 coding marathon, Code Sprint, social events, works in progress, and
 presentations from PHP luminaries. Early Bird discounts end on September
 26th. See the full program and register online at
 <a href="http://www.php-con.com">their website</a>
</p>

<hr>

<h1>PHP 4.3.3 released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[25-Aug-2003]</span>
 The PHP developers are proud to announce the immediate availability of
 <a href="release_4_3_3.php">PHP 4.3.3</a>. This release contains a large
 number of bug fixes and we <strong>strongly</strong> recommend that all
 users of PHP upgrade to this version. Full list of fixes can be found in
 the <a href="ChangeLog-4.php#4.3.3">ChangeLog</a>.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.ActiveState.com/Corporate/ActiveAwards/", "activestate_logo.gif", "ActiveState"); ?>

<h1>Active Awards 2003 Winners</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[15-Aug-2003]</span>
 The <a href="http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/ActiveAwards/">Active Awards</a>
 are held annually to honor members of the open source community who actively
 contribute to open source languages and display excellence in their programming
 efforts. Programmers' Choice Award winners were nominated and chosen by the open
 source community. Activators' Choice Award winners were chosen by ActiveState's
 development team.
</p>
<p>
 This year's nominees were: Monte Ohrt, Paul S. Owen, Stanislav Malyshev,
 Stig Bakken and Wez Furlong. The Programmers' Choice winner is
 <strong>Stig Bakken</strong>, the father of PEAR. The Activators' Choice
 winner is <strong>Ilia Alshanetsky</strong>, member of the PHP Quality
 Assurance team, developer of the fudforum package, and a major contributor
 to PHP development.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>PHP.net news history</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[15-Aug-2003]</span>
 Ever wonder what was the original PHP 3.0 release announcement, what
 where the choices when the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor name was
 choosen, or since when you can use URL shortcuts to access pieces
 of our site? We have digged up some of the most interesting news
 items published on PHP.net since January 1998, when the site started
 to serve its visitors. You can find these <a href="/news-2003.php">in
 the news archives</a>. There is also some historical information in
 <a href="/history">the manual's history appendix</a>.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>Select mirror for redirection</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[13-Aug-2003]</span>
 The www.php.net site tries to do the best to choose close mirrors based
 on all available data when redirecting users to mirror sites. Sometimes
 close mirror sites are unfortunately not the fastest. This is why we have
 added the mirror site selection possibility to <a href="/my.php">our My
 PHP.net service</a>, which enables users to select a specific mirror
 site for redirections.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.php-mag.net/", "php-mag.gif", "PHP Magazine"); ?>

<h1>PHP Magazine web site now with daily news</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[12-Aug-2003]</span>
 <a href="http://www.php-mag.net/">The International PHP Magazine web site</a>
 now offers daily news for PHP professionals and beginners from all over the
 world, helping them to stay up-to-date with the latest news on PHP and
 related technologies.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>URL Shortcuts and Site Search</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[29-Jul-2003]</span>
 After many of our users requested a change in how
 <a href="/urlhowto.php">our URL shortcuts</a> behave when someone mistypes
 a shortcut, the default behaviour now is to look for a function name
 instead of performing a documentation search on Google. Those, who were
 satisfied with the Google search, can <a href="/my.php">set their
 preference at the My PHP.net page</a>. We are working on a better
 onsite search solution, Google is used temporarily to search our site.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.phparch.com/", "phpa_logo_small.gif", "php|architect"); ?>

<h1>php|architect now in print</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[17-Jul-2003]</span>
 The publishers of <a href="http://www.phparch.com/">php|architect</a>, a
 monthly magazine dedicated exclusively to the world of PHP, have announced the
 availability of a <a href="http://www.phparch.com/print/">print edition</a> of
 their publication. Subscriptions are now available at a special introductory
 price for readers worldwide.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html", "linuxtag2003.gif", "LinuxTag"); ?>

<h1>PHP @ LinuxTag</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[06-Jul-2003]</span>
 From July, 10th to 13th 2003
 <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag</a>, Europe's
 largest Fair and Congress dedicated to Open Source in general and Linux in
 particular, takes place in Karlsruhe, Germany.
</p>
<p>
 Under the motto "PHP and Friends" the PHP Project showcases PHP and related
 projects, like MySQL, SQLite, Midgard, osCommerce or DB Designer, at booth
 F21.  In addition to the booth "PHP and Friends" offer an interesting
 programme of
 <a href="http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/events/LinuxTag2003/workshops.php3">technical
 talks and workshops</a> which are held by 24 speakers from 11 nations and cover
 the latest trends and technologies related to PHP, Apache and MySQL. Among the
 speakers are core developers of the discussed Open Source projects, for instance
 Ken Coar (Apache), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) or Kaj Arn&ouml; (MySQL).
</p>

<hr>

<h1>PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[29-Jun-2003]</span>
 The PHP development community is proud to announce the release of PHP 5
 Beta 1. Both source packages, and a Windows build are available in the
 <a href="/downloads.php">Downloads Section</a>. A list of changes
 can be found in the <a href="/ChangeLog-5.php#5.0.0b1">ChangeLog</a>.
</p>
<p>
 Some of the more major changes include:
</p>
<ul>
 <li>
  PHP 5 features the Zend Engine 2.  For a list of Zend Engine 2 changes, please visit
  <a href="/zend-engine-2.php">this</a> webpage.
 </li>
 <li>
  XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the
  excellent libxml2 library (<a href="http://www.xmlsoft.org/">http://www.xmlsoft.org/</a>).
 </li>
 <li>
  SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their
  <a href="http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/">website</a>.
 </li>
 <li>
  Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket
  operations on streams.
 </li>
</ul>
<p>
 <strong>Note</strong>: <em>This is a beta version. It should not be used in
 production or even semi-production web sites.</em> There are known bugs in it,
 and in addition, some of the features may change (based on feedback). We
 encourage you to download and play with it (and <a href="http://bugs.php.net/">report
 bugs</a> if you find any!), but please do not replace your production
 installations of PHP 4 at this time.
</p>

<hr>

<?php news_image("http://www.zend.com/survey/php_net.php", "zendtech_logo.gif", "Zend Technologies"); ?>

<h1>PHP Usage Survey</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[24-Jun-2003]</span>
 Zend Technologies is sponsoring a public PHP Usage Survey.
 The results will be shared with the PHP Group, and will help
 us to better understand the ways in which PHP is being used,
 and what may need improvement.
 <a href="http://www.zend.com/survey/php_net.php">Fill it out</a>
 and get a chance to win one of 50 PHP T-shirts!
</p>

<hr>

<h1>PHP 4.3.2 Released!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[29-May-2003]</span>
 The PHP developers are proud to announce the immediate availability of
 <a href="release_4_3_2.php">PHP 4.3.2</a>. This release contains a large number of bug fixes
 and is a <strong>strongly</strong> recommended update for all users of PHP.
 Full list of fixes can be found in the <a href="ChangeLog-4.php#4.3.2">ChangeLog</a> file.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>Automatic Mirror Select</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[23-May-2003]</span>
 In our ongoing battle to fight load and keep serving you content, whenever you
 perform a search on www.php.net, you will be redirected onto a nearby mirror
 (determined using the <a href="http://www.directi.com/?site=ip-to-country">Directi
 Ip-to-Country Database</a>).
 You may experience a few quirks in the search until your mirrors have synced an up-to-date
 version of the site.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>Country Detection</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[04-May-2003]</span>
 We are proud to introduce you the latest addition to our <a href="/my.php">My
 PHP.net</a> service. The PHP.net site and mirror sites now autodetect
 your country using the <a href="http://www.directi.com/?site=ip-to-country">Directi
 Ip-to-Country Database</a>. We use this information to present events in
 your country in bold letters on the frontpage, and to offer close mirror
 sites for downloads and your usual daily work.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>My PHP.net</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[24-Apr-2003]</span>
 The PHP website and mirrors sites now have a
 '<a href="/my.php">My PHP.net</a>' page, which allows
 you to check what language settings you have, and enables
 you to set one which will override all the other detected
 parameters.
</p>

<p>
 However, normally this is not needed, as we remember the
 language you used last time. Be sure to have cookies turned
 on for PHP.net to let this feature work!
</p>

<hr>

<h1>Grant Program</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[06-Mar-2003]</span>
 <a href="http://www.phparch.com">php|architect</a>, is proud to
 announce the creation of the php|architect Grant Program, whose goal is
 to provide financial support to best-of-breed PHP-related projects.
</p>

<p>
 Participation in the program is open to all open-source projects
 that are related to PHP (but not necessarily written <i>in</i> PHP). The
 program is accepting submissions now and will start distributing grants
 in June of 2003.
</p>

<p>
 For more information, visit the <a
 href="http://www.phparch.com/grant/">program's website</a>.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>Set your own language preference</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[01-Mar-2003]</span>
 Starting from today, your browser's "Accept Language" setting is also
 honored on language sensitive pages on the php.net site. If you would
 like to get to the documentation page of echo for example, you can use
 the <a href="/echo">/echo</a> shortcut on all mirror sites, if your
 browser is set to provide your language preference information to the
 server. This also makes the PHP error message links point to the
 documentation in your preferred language.
</p>

<p>
 You can set your preferences under Edit/Preferences/Navigator/Languages
 in Mozilla, and under Tools/Internet Options/Languages in Internet
 Explorer. This will probably also enhance your web experience on sites
 providing translated content.
</p>

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<h1>First Hungarian PHP Conference</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[25-Feb-2003]</span>
 The members of the Hungarian PHP community announce
 <a href="http://phpconf.hu/">the first Hungarian PHP Conference</a> which
 will take place in Budapest, on Saturday March 29th, sponsored by several
 international and local companies. The conference offers an entirely free one
 day activity with several presentations addressing basic and advanced topics,
 as well, exclusively in Hungarian. Moreover, a five kilobyte-limited PHP
 contest has been started to discover the most talented PHP programmers in
 our country. The programme includes the first session of the so-called PHP
 Division which will be established with the set purpose of representing the
 community itself and promoting their interests in any national business and
 official phorums.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>PHP 4.3.1 released in response to CGI vulnerability</h1>

<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[17-Feb-2003]</span>
 The PHP Group today announced the details of a serious
 <a href="release_4_3_1.php">CGI vulnerability</a> in PHP version 4.3.0. A
 security update, <a href="downloads.php">PHP 4.3.1</a>, fixes the issue.
 Everyone running affected version of PHP (as CGI) are encouraged to upgrade
 immediately. The new 4.3.1 release does not include any other changes,
 so upgrading from 4.3.0 is safe and painless.
</p>

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<h1>PHPCon East 2003 - (April 23-25, 2003)</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[01-Feb-2003]</span>
 PHPCon announces PHPCon East 2003 in New York City. This conference
 features two days of technical learning with speakers such as
 Rasmus Lerdorf, Zeev Suraski, Michael Radwin, George Schlossnagle and
 Jeremy Zawodny. PHPCon East also adds a third, full day of tutorials
 offering practical, cogent PHP solutions and ideas including: MySQL
 and PHP; Building and Consuming Web Services with SOAP; Getting
 Started with PHP; High Performance PHP: Profiling and Benchmarking;
 and more!
</p>

<p>
 PHPCon East has discounts for early registration, students, non-profits,
 and Tutorial/Conference packages. Early Bird Deadline is March 31st. For
 more program information, <a href="http://www.php-con.com/return.php?i=ph2">visit
 the PHPCon website</a>.
</p>

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<h1>Conf&eacute;rence PHP Qu&eacute;bec 2003 - (Montr&eacute;al, March 20&amp;21rst, 2003)</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[28-Jan-2003]</span>
 The PHP Qu&eacute;bec association announces the <a
 href="http://phpconf.phpquebec.com/">Conf&eacute;rence PHP Qu&eacute;bec 2003</a>.
 The conference will take place in the &Eacute;cole Polytechnique de Montr&eacute;al,
 Qu&eacute;bec, Canada.
</p>

<p>
 The Conf&eacute;rence PHP Qu&eacute;bec features two days of conferences, with
 outstanding customer cases from Canada, and cutting edge technical
 sessions, hosted by international experts. An exhibitor room will
 showroom professional solutions.
</p>

<p>
 Learn more about those exciting days at
 <a href="http://phpconf.phpquebec.org/index.php">phpconf.phpquebec.com</a>.
</p>

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<h1>International PHP Conference 2003 - Spring Edition (Amsterdam, May 8-9)</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[13-Jan-2003]</span>
 Software &amp; Support Verlag announced the <a
 href="http://www.phpconference.com/">International PHP Conference 2003 - Spring
 Edition</a> - in Amsterdam. The dates for this event for PHP enthusiasts from
 all over the world will be May 8 and 9, 2003. The conference venue is the RAI
 conference center in Amsterdam.
</p>

<p>
 Like the International PHP Conferences in Frankfurt this conference will
 offer a first class program  to an international audience of PHP enthusiasts.
 We are happy to ask you to submit your <a
 href="http://www.phpconference.com/content/content2.php?CatID=0&amp;NewsID=354">proposals</a>
 for the session program.
</p>

<p>
 The topics are General PHP, PHP &amp; Business, PHP &amp; Databases, PHP
 Design, PHP Extensions, PHP &amp; XML and PHP-GTK.
</p>

<hr>

<h1>PEAR Out of Beta!</h1>
<p>
 <span class="newsdate">[11-Jan-2003]</span>
 The PEAR development team is proud to announce that
 <a href="http://pear.php.net/">PEAR</a> is finally out of its long
 beta period. As of PHP 4.3, the PEAR installer is installed by default.
 Unix support is considered stable, while Windows and Darwin are still
 of beta-quality.
</p>

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