The PHP London conference has officially released their schedule for this year's event. It includes speakers like Wez Furlong, Rob Allen and Derick Rethans and combines several different talks into one day of PHP goodness.

This year's event is happening at the headquarters of Inmarsat Limited (location and maps can be found on the venue page). Registration is now open and you can still get in on the Early Bird discount of £90.

Be sure to check out the list of talks they have planned and the rest of the details on their site and be sure to reserve your spot today!

In a a new post to his blog today, Padraic Brady mentions a component of the Zend Framework that's fallen into the wayside in favor of a Zend-sponsored OpenID component, Zend_Service_Openid. Despite this setback, he still plans on helping with its resurrection, maybe just in a different form.

After posting some questions to the mailing list before adding any additional formal proposals, I have learned another OpenID library for the Zend Framework is also in progress within Zend.

The upshot of this, given it's a Zend sponsored library, is that I feel like there's little choice but to abandon my own version of a proposal for the framework. So it's status is "withdrawn" at this moment as is Zend_Service_Yadis, being a linked proposal. The library itself is not being abandoned, far from it as it has always been my intention to release it under a New BSD License and that plan is not wavering.

He talks about some of the thoughts going through his head of the choice that Zend made and how his library approached the OpenID authentication issues.

Elizabeth Naramore has posted an update about the PHP Throwdown event being planned, including updates on the judges, prizes, sponsors, and registration.

Many people probably think the PHP Throwdown has stalled, but it's quite the contrary actually. We've been mulling over many things and have come to some conclusions. So if you're interested, read on!

The judges have been found, the categories are still being decided, prizes are en route, Jupiter Hosting has stepped up as a sponsor for the event, registration is coming soon, and the rules have been posted.

Be sure to check out the main page for complete details on the event. The PHP Throwdown is a competition to see what can be accomplished with PHP in 24 hours. Who: You! You can compete in a team, or individually.

The Vancouver PHP group is holding a conference this year at the UBC Downtown Campus in Vancouver, British Columbia and have announced their Call for Papers for this 2007 confernece.

Mark these dates down on your calender, make sure that you keep these dates open.

Please join the "PHP Conference 2007 Organizing Committee", if you are interested to volunteer, and contact us if you wish to speak.

The conference will be happening February 12th and 13th, starting at 8am the first day and ending at 5pm the second. If you are interested in participating as a speaker or sponsor, please email Shane Caraveo at shanec AT ActiveState DOT com.

Mike Potter is happy to announce that Adobe is officially a "Gold Sponsor" of the upcoming Zend/PHP Conference & Expo as well as a mention of his involvement at the conference.

I'm happy to announce that Adobe will be sponsoring the Zend / PHP Conference and Expo in San Jose in late October. I have a speaking session there on Rich Internet Applications, and we'll have a booth where we'll be showing off integrating PHP, using open source tools such as AMFPHP or WebORB from the Midnight Coders.

He also reminds potential conference-goers that the Early Bird discount is still in effect (until September 15th - just two more days!) to get the dicsounted price. Head over and register today!

From Ligaya Turmelle's blog today, there's a new post concerning the announcement that Google has made for this year's "Summer of Code".

She also mentions another comment by Lukas Smith concerning a wiki that he's started for enhancements to the PEAR project, found here. You can also get complete details on the "Summer of Code" from this page on Goggle's site.