Michael Cullum has posted the October 2017 edition of what has been happening in the PHP-FIG group for the month over on Medium.com.

As part of the effort to communicate better what’s going on within the PHP FIG we’re starting a new series of ‘A month of PHP FIG’ articles to be released towards the end of each month, each being a 2 minute read or less.

Topics mentioned in this month's edition include:

• PSR-12 being formally re-introduced into the draft stage
• a start of the voting for the secretary elections for two secretary posts
• a discussion as to whether or not new PSRs should require PHP 7 or PHP 5 still
• an agreement that PSR-18 will not cater to async http client requests due to the lack of a Promise PSR standard

There were also several new PSR ideas proposed including ones for internationalization, cache tagging and deprecation handling. You can read the full post here

On the JetBrains blog Gary Hockin has just posted the latest "PHP Annotated Monthly" edition for September 2015. These posts cover recent happenings in the PHP community, linking to more information and the people involved.

As the autumn conference season begins to ramp up, it’s time for the September edition of PHP Annotated Monthly – bringing you all the news, tips, tricks and tutorials from the PHP community.

He touches on three main topics - the PHP language itself, news about various frameworks and tools talked about over the month and happenings in the community itself. Some of the topics mentioned include:

• the RC1 release of PHP7
• articles about hard-coding status codes and saving memory with generators
• New releases for Zend Framework, Symfony, WordPress and Drupal
• the new Expressive framework from the Zend Framework team
• the PHP Mentoring application

...and lots more. Check out the full post for more topics and links to plenty of others. You can also check out some of the back issues on the Annotated Monthly archive page.

The JetBrains blog has just posted their latest edition of the "PHP Annotated Monthly" series with their review for July 2015.

Our July issue of PHP Annotated Monthly is here, bringing you updates on PHP, frameworks, tools, tips for coding, community, and more. Read this month’s digest curated by Mikhail Vink, PhpStorm Product Marketing Manager.

In this month's article there's mentions of things like:

• New PHP versions released
• Work on PHP7
• Updates to various frameworks and tools
• Being able to order an elePHPant on demand (and the funding of the woolly mammoth
• PHP cheatsheets
• Information about contributing back to PHP

Check out the full post for even more topics and links to other great resources.

On the Zend Developer Zone today there's the announcement of their latest Bug Hunt Day for the Zend Framework happening the 18th through the 20th of November (this Thursday through Saturday).

For those who haven't put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you: Zend Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday of November (the 18th, 19th and 20th 2010), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

This bug hunt is a particularly important one since they've released the final release branch for the 1.x series. They want things to be "rock solid" and are encouraging even more testers to come and help out. To help out, you'll need a CLA on file and you can read their guide on how to get started.

AjaxLine has published what they consider to be the most useful and best extensions for your Joomla install for the month of March. The list includes:

• sigplus Image Gallery Plus
• Ninja RSS Syndicator (aka BCA RSS)
• Latest Events Teaser for Eventlist
• AllNews
• Jafilia
• MultiAds(Make Adsense and YPN Easy)
• Code For Blog

You can find these and many, many more over on the Joomla extensions site.

Damien Seguy has posted the PHP statistics for this past month, August 2007:

Here are the PHP stats for August 2007. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 27.1 millions servers hosted on 2.4 millions IP were surveyed during August, and 11.8 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered.

Highlights this month include:

• The start of the decline of PHP4 usage!
• PHP 5 break its progression record : +1,5% to 22%
• August 2007, best month to compile PHP

Check out the full stats here with the evolution stats here.

Damien Seguy has posted the PHP statistics for this past month, August 2007:

Here are the PHP stats for August 2007. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 27.1 millions servers hosted on 2.4 millions IP were surveyed during August, and 11.8 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered.

Highlights this month include:

• The start of the decline of PHP4 usage!
• PHP 5 break its progression record : +1,5% to 22%
• August 2007, best month to compile PHP

Check out the full stats here with the evolution stats here.

Damien Seguy has kept up the good work and has posted this month's PHP statistics for the past month's data (April 2007).

Here are the PHP stats for March 2007. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 10.1 millions servers hosted on 2.3 millions IP were surveyed during December, and 22.8 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered.

Highlights for the month:

• 5.2 is about to be the 3rd most popular version
• PHP 5 is more often chosen on larger domains
• In April, web sites are bracing for the next versions
• Doesn't seem to be much impact from MOPB : have to wait for this month's to see it.

Stats cover a wide range of topics including:

• PHP on the Internet
• PHP Versions with dropping usage
• PHP5 adoption by country
• PHP versions by IP

Also, be sure to check out the evolution stats for the past month, showing some of the trends for the past months as compared to April.

Damien Seguy has kept up the good work and has posted this month's PHP statistics for the past month's data (April 2007).

Here are the PHP stats for March 2007. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 10.1 millions servers hosted on 2.3 millions IP were surveyed during December, and 22.8 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered.

Highlights for the month:

• 5.2 is about to be the 3rd most popular version
• PHP 5 is more often chosen on larger domains
• In April, web sites are bracing for the next versions
• Doesn't seem to be much impact from MOPB : have to wait for this month's to see it.

Stats cover a wide range of topics including:

• PHP on the Internet
• PHP Versions with dropping usage
• PHP5 adoption by country
• PHP versions by IP

Also, be sure to check out the evolution stats for the past month, showing some of the trends for the past months as compared to April.

According to the latest results from the TIOBE Software Programming Community Index (Popularity) for April 2007, PHP has remained in the top five of the list, staying strong at number four.

It saw a loss of 2.24% from the previous ranking but, thankfully, the rest of the top five saw the same kind of decrease. According to their long term trends, PHP is seeing an overall decline (right along with Java) as one of the top languages. Other languages like C++, Python, and Ruby are currently growing in use but don't quite have the percentage of adoption needed yet.

Their results also show a good jump in the adoption of object-oriented languages, but a drop in procedural language use.