php|architect has officially announced the sale of some of the first tickets you can get for this year's php|tek event - the Charter tickets available until the schedule for this year's conference is released.

As it is customary, while we work on receiving proposals, rating them, and coming up with a final schedule for php|tek 2012, we are offering "Charter tickets" at 50% off the full price for a "Full Experience" ticket that includes access to both the tutorial day and the main conference - that's four days of learning, networking, and just plain fun for the lowest price we'll ever offer, period.

The Charter tickets are $750 USD this year and give you full access to both the tutorial day and full conference days for the rest of the week. There's a limited supply of these pre-schedule tickets, so be sure you pick up yours now to get in on the deal.

The ConFoo conference has officially announced the opening of Early Bird registrations for their 2012 event (happening in Montreal February 29th through March 2nd).

When? February 29 - March 02, 2012. Where? Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal downtown. How much? $600 (instead of $800). This rate is valid if you order before January 13, 2012.

You can order your ticket today in a variety of flavors - just a conference pass or conference plus a tutorial - either Advanced PHP, Security (both in French and English versions), Symfony2 or HTML5. Ticket prices range from $700 CAD to $400 CAD, depending on which tutorial is selected (or if it's selected at all).

The PHPBenelux conference has officially announced their list of speakers for their 2012 event (January 27th and 28th in Antwerp):

We are happy and proud to announce the speaker line-up for the 2012 edition of the PHPBenelux Conference. We already released our tutorials on November 16th, but this is the real deal. Speaker bio's, talk abstracts and schedule will be added later. Please note that this list is subject to change.

Sessions for this year's event include:

• Tobias Schlitt: Writing testable code
• Sebastian Marek: Magic Behind the Numbers - Software Metrics In Practice
• Nick Belhomme: PHP traits, treat or threat?
• Jordi Boggiano: Redis - Your advanced in-memory key-value store
• Stephan Hochdörfer: The state of DI in PHP
• Craig Kitterman: Enterprise Class Cloud for the Average Joe

Tickets are still at their Early Bird prices (but only until December 16th!) and you can get a pass for both the tutorial day and main conference day for just 260 Euro. If you just want to attend the conference, that ticket is only 135 Euro. You can order them here. If you want to attend one of the tutorials, you'll need to specify that by ordering the related ticket.

As is mentioned on Michelangelo van Dam's blog, the PHPBenelux conference for 2012 has been announced and tickets are now on sale.

The PHPBenelux team only announced the names of tutorial speakers, but with names like Ivo Jansch, Torsten Rhinne, Fabien Potencier and Matthew Weier O'Phinney you know it's going to rock! And that's tutorials only. It's all happening on January 27 and 28, so make sure you block those days in your calendar, because the center of Europe is going to buzz PHP like it never had before!

The tickets can be purchased here for the Early Bird rates (until December 16th) of 260 Euro for the full event (conference+tutorials) and 135 Euro for just the conference.

As a reminder, the PHP UK Conference (2012) still has their "Blind Bird" tickets on sale until the 4th of December for £90:

Purchase blindbird 2012 conference registration(s) for Friday 24th and/or Saturday 25th February - available at this price until 4th December 2011. After this time the earlybird 2012 conference registration for Friday 24th February will be available at £120/£210 excluding VAT, with only the full price of £140/£250 excluding VAT available from 3rd January 2012.

The conference is two days in London with over 30 talks and 25 speakers. The schedule hasn't bene released yet (hence the "blind bird" pricing) but if it's anything like previous years, it will be packed with excellent sessions on a variety of subjects, from beginner to intermediate.

The folks over at Pusher (the real-time push notification service) have announced a contest they're holding for developers (not just PHP either) to enter for a shot at a MacBook Air and a ticket to the Keeping it Realtime Conference - the "Pusher Challenge".

We believe you can massively improve the user experience and engagement of your existing applications by making them realtime. Pusher lets you do that quickly and simply with our hosted API. In the Pusher challenge, we want to see the innovative ways you can turbo-charge your apps with a sprinkling of Pusher magic.

Pusher uses Websockets to handle the notifications. You can sign up for a developer account to get the development ball rolling but the deadline is midnight (GMT) on October 16th (just five days away!) so dive in and get realtime quickly for your chance to win!

If you want to get in on the Early Bird pricing for this year's CodeWorks conference (East and West coast tours), you better hurry - today's the last day the discount will be available!

Don't miss your chance to get a discounted ticket to the Code Works '11 tour. Order today and save 20% off of each ticket. Find the city nearest you in the tours below and order your ticket today and join us as sparks fly!

Cities on the route for this touring conference this year include Nashville, Baltimore, Seattle, Portland and Austin. Prices jump up to $100 USD for a single ticket and $90 for group tickets after today, so get yours at the discount price while you can.

The folks over at Zend would like to remind you that the deadline for Early Bird pricing on ZendCon conference tickets is coming soon - September 16th!

The Zend PHP Conference (ZendCon) will be held October 17-20, 2011, at the Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. [...] The conference opening keynote will be given by Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend, who will be joined onstage by Michael Crandell, CEO and co-founder of RightScale.

Other keynotes include ones from Jeff Barr (Amazon), Hugh Williams (eBay) and Dwight Merriman (founder of 10gen). You an find out more about these sessions and lots of others packed into this great multi-day conference over on the ZendCon site. Register now to get the Early Bird pricing ($200 USD off the regular ticket price for the full event).

Philip Norton reminds you that the "Blind Bird" pricing for tickets to this year's PHP North West conference is almost coming to a close - the speaker list will be announced soon!

According to the PHPNW11 blog they had a 50% increase in paper submissions from PHPNW10, which means there will be an excellent range of talks on offer, but also a lot of papers to review before deciding on the schedule. So if you want to get in the bargain price of £75 for a fantastic two day conference then you had better get your tickets as soon as you can. After this week the early bird tickets will be released and the price will increase.

You can pick up both the Blind Bird and Tutorial day tickets right now from the ticket page of the PHPNW11 site.

As a reminder to all of those out there wanting to attend this year's PHP Community Conference - it's only two weeks until the event, so you better register soon!

The PHP Community Conference is a two-day event. We kick things off with a tutorial day that will introduce you to tools and ideas that you can use in your code right away. The second day will consist of presentations that will inspire you to create something new with PHP.

The conference is happening April 21st and 22nd in Nashville, TN and tickets for the two-day event are $300 USD. There'll even be a Pecha Kucha event where two iPad2s will be given away. You can find out more about the schedule and the rest of the conference on the event's website.