Unfortunately, as Elizabeth Naramore has posted, all of the rooms for this year's PHP Appalachia conference are sold out. There are other ways you can still involved though...

• Signup on the waiting list for a room that might happen to surprise everyone and come open (for just the $15 registration fee)
• Pay the registration fee and find a spot at the KOA campground nearby
• Or you can pay the $15 and find your own spot at other nearby locations.

The actually conference is limited to 50 people and as of today they still have some spots left - but they're going quick! If you're thinking about going, be sure to register now!

Chris Hartjes has followed up on a previous post about user authentication in CakePHP with a few more comments in part two.

I got a question in the comments about my previous post on simple user registration about how to do some of the necessary validation for registration in the model. I thought I'd show some code I did to do exactly that.

He includes the code for his example with the key, he explains, being the use of a second field (the confirm password field) to do the validation.