This document provides information about upcoming PHP conferences and events, as well as instructions for setting up a PHP development and testing environment. It announces a Test Fest event at Salford University on May 9th from 12-4pm where attendees can learn about PHP testing. Finally, it encourages participation by noting potential prizes and social activities.

1. PHPNW May 2009

2. php|tek MTA conference Chicago 19 th to 22 nd May

3. DPC Dutch PHP Conference 11 th to 13 th June Amsterdam (all in English)

4. ZendCon CfP ZendCon Call for Papers Open til 31 st May Conference: San Jose, CA 19 th to 22 nd October

5. ZF 1.8 Zend Framework new version

6. Test Fest Newton Building Salford University Saturday 9 th May 2009 12 - 4 pm

8. Newton Building

9. (get the train to Salford Crescent)

10. Saturday, 9 th May 2009

11. YOU!!

14. Set up your own system

16. Build Environment (see later)

17. Text Editor

18. SVN Client

19. PHP coding ability

20. Enthusiasm

22. build-essential

23. libxml2-dev

26. ./configure

27. make

28. make test

29. If you get to here, you're all set :)

31. make test TESTS=/path/to/tests

32. Or use the run-tests.php script itself

33. export TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE=<path to php source>/sapi/cli/php

34. $TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE <path to php source>/run-tests.php tests/ext/spl/

36. open index.php in web browser

37. Coverage Report

39. A set of standard interfaces for common problems

40. Many different kinds of iterator

41. Presentation at TestFest about the extension

43. Raffle for elephpants

44. May get a test accepted

45. We're going for beer afterwards

46. Test Fest Newton Building Salford University Saturday 9 th May 2009 12 - 4 pm