In a new post to his blog today Philip Norton has made his announcement about this year's PHP North West Conference 2011 happening October 7th through 9th in Manchester, UK.

I have attended the last 3 PHPNW conferences and they have all been of a very high standard in virtually every way. [...] The conference will be split over two days on the 8th and 9th of October with 3 full tracks on the Saturday and 2 tracks on the Sunday. There will also be lots of coffee breaks and there is usually a free bar in the evening of the Saturday.

Tickets aren't on sale yet for the event, but it shouldn't be too long before the Early Bird pricing is announced. Potential sponsors can find more information here and you can keep up with the latest by following @phpnw11 on Twitter.

A new PHP conference has been announed for those in and around the Washington, DC area - the 2006 DC PHP Conference happening October 18-20th. It's overarching theme will be "PHP In The Federal Enterprise and the World".

The conference also has their Call for Papers open through the 7th of July. The session tracks your presentation would need to fit into are:

• Integrating PHP with the Federal Operations and the Enterprise
• Security & Accountability
• The Art of PHP
• The Business Case For PHP

The sessions need to be about 45-50 minutes with a Q&A to follow, and one speaker per track will be chosen to recieve compensation for air and hotel during the stay. To submit you paper online, head on over to their submission form now!