The main PHP.net website has posted a list of people participating in this year's Google Summer of Code project on various PHP projects. These include:

• PHP Optimizer by Samuel Graham Kelly IV, mentored by Derick Rethans
• gsoc:2008 - XDebug by Chung-Yang Lee, mentored by David Coallier
• PHP Bindings for Cairo by Akshat Gupta, mentored by Anant Narayanan
• Implement Unicode into PHP 6 by Henrique do Nascimento Angelo, mentored by Scott MacVicar

You can check out more information on the projects (including links to their individual pages) on this page of the Google Code website.

The php|architect guys have released the latest episode of their P3 podcast - the newscast for April 17th, 2008:

It truly seems we are cursed. Paul recorded this podcast at OpenWeb Vancouver, and even though he used the new iPod setup (to avoid the aforementioned USB/OSX10.5.2 problems), we still somehow managed to lose small chunks of the audio. *sigh*

Topics mentioned in this show include:

• inclued
• nowdoc
• traits
• and the PHP participation in the Google Summer of Code

Two ways to grab this new episode - directly (just the mp3) or subscribe to their feed and get this and other great (past and future) episodes.