If you're in the area of The Netherlands and you're into PHP, consider yourself lucky - just look at all the events that Ivo Jansch mentions in one of his more recent blog entries:

PHP is still growing in The Netherlands (according to nexen.net, 46% of Dutch domains use PHP). A good indicator of PHP's growth is the number of conferences and other events that are organized this year. [...] This year alone, there are already 6 major (>50) events; 3 done, 3 to go.

Some of the events (like Dutch Joomla Days and the PHP Business Seminar) have already passed but there's still a chance to get in on a few others like Kings of Code and the Dutch PHP Conference.

Nexen.net has posted their latest statistics for PHP for the month of January (2007), showing the status of PHP as of the end of last year - December 2006.

Here are the PHP stats for December 2006. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 19 millions servers hosted on 2,2 millions IP were surveyed during December, and 9,2 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered.

The stats are pretty exhaustive and include:

• PHP's share of the internet
• PHP adoption by country
• Apache adoption by country
• PHP adoption by IP address