This month’s issue will focus on the future of PHP—we cover hot topics that will shape what’s yet to come in our favorite language. We have articles on Unit Testing, Integration, Custom Extensions and the Yii PHP framework.

We’re happy to finally be able to announce the CodeWorks 09 locations for our Miami, Washington/Baltimore and New York City locations—and, in case you were waiting to find out where each event was going to take place, we’re extending the early-early-bird special all the way to July 31st!

We know there are many people out there doing amazing things with PHP, and we want to hear from you! If you live in the local area in and around one of our seven cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Washington DC, or New York City) here’s your chance to show your stuff.

If you, like us, have found yourself wandering through the corridors of a hotel wondering when and where the next session you want to attend at a conference is (or, in fact, which session you were actually interested in), you’ll love our new DreamSchedule Generator, which lets you create your own custom schedule and share it with the world (or keep it to yourself)!

Nate Abele will be joining us for the first three cities of the CodeWorks tour. As lead of the CakePHP project, he brings a sound knowledge of PHP, frameworks, and best practices. Welcome, Nate! We’re glad to have you aboard!

We are so glad that Ben Ramsey will be joining us on all seven cities of the CodeWorks tour! Ben brings to the tour his extensive knowledge and experience, particularly in the areas of web services and HTTP.

The recording for Sumit Chawla’s great webcast on Microsoft technology interoperability, which took place last Friday as part of our CodeWorks 09 Summer Webcast Series, is now available from our website

Our Summer Webcast Series continues this Friday with another great free webcast hosted by Sumit Chawla on ways to make PHP interoperate with Microsoft technologies (which, as it turns out, is not as difficult as you might think!).

The recording for our New SPL Features in PHP 5.3, hosted by Blue Parabola’s Matthew Turland, is now available directly from our website.

While so many of us are still busy trying to make things work on Internet Explorer 6, HTML is slowly evolving from a relatively simple mark-up language into the backbone of tomorrow’s dynamic web. In this interview, we asked Ben Ramsey, Senior Software Architect for Schematic, to give us a quick overview of how it’s going to affect our work in the near (and not so near) future.