On 7PHP.com today Khayrattee Wasseem has posted another community interview, this time with Craig Willis the organizer of the Leeds PHP user group in the UK (West Yorkshire).

This is the #1st set of 'Know Thy PHP Usergroup' in an attempt to create more awareness of: what is $this PHP UG about + get to know the leaders/Founders/Community behind it, what is a PHP User Group in general and to personally know all the PHP user goups Around The World - that excites me and I hope you too! This concept is also a good opportunity for new #elePHPants to know about PHP UGs.

They talk some about the group itself as well as some of Craig's thoughts about about leading the group. They talk some about the goals of the group, the usual activities of it and how the meetups are planned. There's also a bit about finding sponsors for the group and how it compares to other groups of the same type.

On 7PHP.com today there's a new interview with Jakub Vrana about his tool Adminser, a lightweight alternative to things like phpMyAdmin for database management.

Adminer, formerly known as phpMinAdmin, is a full-featured database management tool to be used as a more simple, effective and fast alternative to the famous PHPmyAdmin. Being curious about it, I had a chat with the creator of Adminer, Jakub Vrana.

They talk about the problem the tool tries to solve and where the idea to make it came from. There's also a bit about why to use it over something like phpMyAdmin and what the current status/future plans for it are. If you want to read an interview with Jakub about his work and experiences, you can check out this post.

On 7PHP.com today there's a new post spotlighting two upcoming "sister" conferences happening early next month in Amsterdam - the Dutch PHP and Dutch Mobile Conferences. He asked the organizers a few questions about the event like:

• What the conference(s) are about
• When it was first launched and where its been held
• Average and highest number of attendees
• Working with sponsors
• Speaker submission and selection
• How it compares to other conferences
• The differences between running a user group and conference

There's also a mention at the end of the unconference that happens parallel to the event - an open area where people can present on the topic of their choosing. This year's unconfernece chair for DPC/DMC is Jeroen van Dyke.

7PHP.com has another community interview posted today - this time it's with Jakub Vrana, a co-author that works on the official PHP manual.

In this edition I talked with Jakub Vrana who is a co-author of The Official PHP Manual. Adminer and NotORM. I invite you to know him better and to learn from his 7php PHP interview.

The interview shares Jakub's answers about things like:

• His history as a PHP developer
• What he sees as good and bad parts of it
• His preferred tools
• His choices on frameworks and ORMs
• How to get started contributing to the documentation/manual
• Some about his book "1001 tips and tricks for PHP"

The PHP Podcast (from Zend) has posted its second episode - Episode #2, an interview with Adam Culp who recently joined the team at Zend and is a organizer for the South Florida PHP User Group.

In this episode we talk to Adam Culp on his very first day as a Zend employee. We talk about PHP community and Adam's decision to move from the realm of independent consultant to Zender! Adam is the organizer of SunshinePHP, PHP Guru and joining the Zend Professional Services Team.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly. You can also subscribe to their feed of you want this and future episodes pulled automatically.

On 7PHP.com there's a new post that interviews a PHP community member, Eric Hogue, about his experience with the Zend Certified Engineer exam.

This is the 3rd set of Zend Certification Tips and Advice to help anyone taking either of the two Zend Exams powered by Zend Technologies: the Zend PHP Certification Exam and/or the Zend Framework Certification Exam. The aim being to help people who want to sit for those exams and inform them what it is all about & what to expect by hearing it from (pro) PHP Guys who have already been through it, that is => Hear It From Zend Certified Engineers!

He starts off with some general questions to Eric about the exam and its structure and how he prepared himself for it. He mentions some of the resources he used to study and what kind of topics to pay attention to. There's also a few quotes included at the end giving another perspective on the exam (specifically, some frustrations).

On 7PHP.com today they've posted the latest PHP community interview - this time with Manuel Lemos of the PHPClasses site.

In this edition I talked with Manuel Lemos who is the founder of the famous and huge PHPClasses.org. @ManuelLemos has been rambling a lot about PHP, doing all sorts of stuffs on phpclasses back since 1999 - podcasts, interviews, sharing scripts, writing scripts, blogging, shouting and I even doubt he drinks-eats-sleeps there too (just to say how much he is hooked in there).

In the interview he answers questions about:

• His background and how he got started with PHP
• What he sees as the good and bad parts of the language
• Some suggestions for developers wanting to learn
• What frameworks/unit testing tool and CMS he recommends

There's also a section more specifically focused on the Brazilian PHP community, PHP conferences and some of the things he's learned in his time in the wider PHP community.

The first episode of a new PHP-related podcast, the "PHP Podcast" produced by Zend, has been released. This first episode, hosted by Joe Stagner features a well-known PHPer, Cal Evans.

Cal Evans has been referred to as "The Ubiquitous Face of the PHP Community". That's made Cal an obvious choice for the first guest on the PHPPodcast. In this episode we chat about the evolving face of the PHP community.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 or by subscribing to their feed.

On 7PHP.com today they've posted the latest interview with a member of the PHP community. In this edition the interview is with Lineke Kerckhoffs Willems, co-founder of the ProTalk video and audio community resource.

In this edition I talked with Lineke Kerckhoffs-Willems who is the Co-Founder Of ProTalk. @the_linie is the third #phpwomen I'm hosting on 7php.com after Lorna and Ligaya. Lineke is a very active member of and promoting the purpose of PHPwomen.org. She is indulged in a lot of stuffs; she attends a lot of conferences, speaks at conferences and is also an organizer of a conference as you will read along this interview. She focuses a lot on Quality Assurance and I have taken this opportunity to ask her a few questions about it.

They talk about a wide range of topics in the interview including:

• Het background as a developer, open source project lead, author and conference organizer
• Her opinions (good and bad) about the PHP language
• Her development tools of choice
• Some of her thoughts on quality assurance
• Details about ProTalk's goals and the technology that powers it

You can read the answers to these and the rest of the questions in the full interview.

On 7PHP.com today there's a new community interview, this time with Stefan Priebsch, one of the founders of thePHP.cc and well-known speaker.

In this edition I talked with [Stefan Priebsch @spriebsch] who is one of the Elite members of The PHP Consulting Company, thePHP.cc. He is regarded as a highly knowledgeable gentleman, has rewritten an array of books related to Software Development and software life cycles; in short Stefan is an acclaimed expert for PHP software development. One of his talks which I highly recommend is "Why MVC is not an application architecture". Fortunately it's a video, so you will be able to both see and hear Stefan talk about it.

They talk about Stefan's current involvement with the language and community as well as some of his own past. Topics include:

• How he sees the state of PHP now versus when he started with the language
• What kinds of tools he uses for his development and debugging
• What he likes and dislikes about the language
• Some of his good (and bad) moments in the community and at conferences

You can read the full interview here.