P3 Newscast: We forgot to name it. Paul & Sean are back with a new newscast, on the heels of last week's Ramblecast.

Topics mentioned this time include the Pre-announcement of this year's php|works conference, the Firefox 3 release, several books that have recently been released and a few random rambling items tossed in.

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Here's an interview that Paul recorded with Elizabeth M. Smith, a while back. There's some good info in here on PHP on Windows. Paul & Elizabeth discuss builds, 5.3, and other related topics.

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Topics mentioned in this episode include:

• php|tek 2008 (and a possible Ramblecast)
• The updated SPL Data structures
• Multi Directory dll loading
• TestFest 2008
• XDebug in Debian

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The PHP Community channel on the Freenode IRC network, #phpc, had a longstanding bot called "Ai". Like many bots at the time of her creation, she was based on PHP 4. [...] With the coming end-of-life of PHP 4 and at the encouragement of channel users, I decided to start a project to develop a new bot based on PHP 5 that would fully utilize its new object model and offer users a chance to contribute to the bot they used in their channel.

Matthew talks about the initial stages of development (planning, research) and some of the development process of the bootstrap file, configuration file, and driver as well as the event handling.

• internals talk on attic vs sibera and Phar
• Foreign Keys in MySQL
• April Fools on PHP
• and, of course, TestFest 2008

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• Strings are FINALLY becoming first-class objects (Internals)
• PEAR and PHPClasses Merger
• ClonePHP (and a testimonial)

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• the Google Summer of Code
• the upcoming PHP 5.3 release
• Building PHP on Windows
• the release of version 1.5 of the Zend Framework

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Welcome to the new community site. We've still got a bit of finishing work to do, but I think everyone would agree that this is much better than the old site! Let us know what you think.

Rather than having their community efforts spread out over their current site, they decided on on centralized resource where people can get the latest news, check out the latest podcast and interact with fellow PHPers out there on the web.

Be sure to check it out for yourself and let them know what you think.