As was mentioned on the Zend Developer Zone, a Dutch PHP TestFest has been announced by Stefan Koopmanschap in a recent blog entry:

(from the ZDZ translation):

We are very proud that testing guru Sebastian Bergmann will be present at the meeting! Sebastian is the man behind Unit the test framework PHPUnit, and is seen as the authority in the field of tests and quality control in the PHP community.

The event will be happening on May 10th starting at about noon and going until around 4:30 in the afternoon. You can get more details from Stefan's blog entry including a link to register for the event.

Derick Rethans has posted an announcement about this year's PHP Vikinger unconference in Skien, Norway:

The PHP Vikinger unconference will be held for the third year in Skien, Norway. Just like previous years it follows directly after eZ Systems conference which puts this year's PHP Vikinger on June 21st, the longest day of the year.

He also links to pictures from previous years (nice hat Rasmus!) and a report from an attendee of last year's event. Check out the event's site for more information.

Mike Lively has made the announcement that the Las Vegas area finally has its own user group:

I am pleased to announce that Las Vegas finally has a PHP User Group and our first meeting is...tomorrow. I am pretty excited as I know there is a fairly decent size PHP programmer community in LV, it just hasn't been organized yet.

Their meeting is later today (April 11th) at 4pm at PT's Pub east of I15 and south of 215. It's an "anything goes" sort of even so expect to come, socialize and meet up with lots of great developers from the area.

According to this post on the Zend Developer Zone website (a press release from Zend), they're classifying Windows Server 2008 as being certified "PHP ready".

This announcement is the latest in a series of collaborations between Zend and Microsoft aimed at delivering high performance and reliability for PHP applications running on the Windows Server platform. Several of these enhancements have been contributed back to the PHP community.

As a part of the project, Microsoft has even put effort into ensuring that several of the popular PHP packages (like Mambo and WordPress) work right out of teh box with a Windows Server 2008 installation.

Ivo Jansch has posted more details about this year's Dutch PHP Conference happening in Amsterdam this June on the 13th and 14th.

I'm proud to announce that we're organizing another edition of the Dutch PHP Conference, with the help of the great people at Zend. It will be in Amsterdam on June 13 and 14 this year. Last year we organized it for the first time, and based on feedback from our visitors we have made several changes to this years event.

Changes include the expansion into two days, increased capacity and the primary language of the conference is English this year. They also included an interesting twist - allowing those attending (or potentially attending) the conference to submit their thoughts to the "Call for Ideas" they would like to see presented.

The main conference site has full details about everything you'd need to know including where and how to register to save your spot.

The eZ development group has officially announced the release of the latest versions of two of their software utilities - eZ Publish version 4.0.0 and eZ Flow 1.0.

We are pleased to announce the first stable releases of eZ Publish 4.0.0 and eZ Flow 1.0. These releases add considerable value to eZ Publish and benefit the entire eZ Ecosystem. eZ Publish 4 signifies our commitment to provide a sustainable platform for delivering Enterprise Content Management Solutions, while eZ Flow enables media companies to engage visitors with rich, dynamic multimedia content, providing an easy-to-use interface for non-technical editors.

They spotlight some of the new features for each including complete php5 compatibility, performance improvements, and an easier to use GUI for eZ Flow. Check out the official release announcement for full details and links to the new downloads.