PHPCamp, India’s biggest un-conference for PHP developers is going to happen on 5th March at Pune.

If you have done something exciting in PHP that you would like to show off or just want to talk about your experiences while building applications then register your sessions now.

If you just want to attend, learn or meet fellow developers and enthusiasts then just register for the event here, and don’t forget to read the FAQ.

Hope to see most of you on 5th March.

Two years ago we had started our journey. Like last year, i will share some more stats.

Check out our traffic for last one year.

We are now 2103 campers strong and 20,262 articles were shared on PHPCamp.

Thank you for helping us grow.

Few days back we had taken a survey on PHPCamp to know the feedback of site till now and how we can make site more useful for our users and we got some useful ideas which users actually needed in PHPCamp. One of the feature user suggested was bookmarking or marking article as their favorite so that they can browse them later.

So on demand of our users we are launching favorite section on PHPCamp now users can bookmark their favorite article on PHPCamp itself and read it later without making efforts to search some particular article they liked.

Your favourite list is displayed on your profile page, check mine

As promised, we now have a winner for our ticket giveaway. Winner was chosen using random query as shown in the image below.

And winner is Abhay Kochar. Check your email for details.

Congratulations!!

OSI Days Asia’s largest Open Source Conference is happening from 19th September till 22nd September. For this year’s event they are focused on PHP in a big way, here is a partial list of speakers that are going to talk on PHP( and related stuff) at OSI days.

• Bastian Feder, A Prolific PHP Speaker,
• Dave Hall, Drupal Rockstar,
• David Coallier, President (PEAR Group),
• David Recordon, Senior Open Programs Manager (Facebook),
• Fabien Potencier, CEO (Sensio Labs),
• Jakub Vrana, Co-Author of Official PHP Manual,
• Jason Levitt, Director, (Kaltura Developer Network),
• Jonathan Wage, Core Developer (Symfony), and
• Indian Drupal Rockstars: Ipsita and Prajwala

Check out complete schedule here.

Now the good news is that we are giving away a gold pass free to one lucky camper.

Gold pass gives you following benefits

1. Assured seating in Software Development Track – Web Applications
2. Assured seating in Software Development Track – Mobile Applications
3. Access to PHP track
4. Access to Drupal track
5. Access to IT Manager Track
6. Lunch for all Three Days
7. Tea/ Coffee twice a Day during small break.
8. Certificate of Attendance

To get the pass all you have to do is become fan of PHPCamp on Facebook and leave a comment on this blog post, If you are already a fan then just leave a comment to participate.

Winner for the pass will be selected randomly from campers who leave a comment on this blog post and are also fan on Facebook at 0000 hrs on 15th September. We will announce the winner on 15th September 2010 here on the blog and also on Facebook fan page. Winner chosen by us will be final.

And if you don’t want to wait that long, you can buy the pass here, use coupon code 20pass to get 20% discount.

Quick Recap:

To win the pass all you have to do is

1. Become fan of PHPCamp on Facebook, and
2. Leave a comment on this blog post.

Team behind PHPCamp is going to be there and we are looking forward to meet all of you.

UPDATE: Winner for giveaway is announced.

We had put the toolbar in order to give our readers a chance to makeup their mind and vote on articles after they have read it. But it was never really used.

So we have finally removed it. Do let us know what you think of it, or anything else that can make PHPCamp more useful to you.

We are listening.

Today PHPCamp.net turned one year old, I think it’s time to share some stats about us.

We now have more then 1200+ registered users, and 8587 user submitted articles and from the chart above you can see how traffic behaved over the year.

Thank you everyone for helping us grow.

We have already launched our Bookmarklet three months ago. Now we have a bunch of tools and buttons for you, including the enhanced Bookmarklet.

So what are the tools and buttons:

1. PHPCamp Button
2. Bookmarklet (Enhanced)
3. PHPCamp Widget

Let me describe ‘em one by one:

PHPCamp Button

Now your visitors can directly vote/submit your articles without coming to our site. Just add the following line of code:

<script src=”http://phpcamp.net/votebox”></script>

in your page and you will have a votebox available in your page for your users.

Bookmarklet (Enhanced)

Yes, the bookmarklet is more enhanced now. We have received some feedbacks from our campers saying that they must get the option to vote instead of the submit form, if the article is already submitted. Thanks for your feedbacks and it is implemented. What more? We have also given a credit to our camper who has helped us grow by submitting the article Cheers to our campers!!!

PHPCamp Widget

Now you can also show the boiling PHP articles on your blog or social networking site. All you have to do is add the following line of code:

<script type=”text/javascript” charset=”utf-8″ src=”http://phpcamp.net/widget”></script>

in your page.

And you will get something like:

To customize the votebox or widget visit: http://phpcamp.net/tools

Thanks campers for the updates. Keep posting

On popular demand of employers and campers we have released Jobs section on PHPCamp, this will allow employer to advertise their job opening and campers to grab good opportunities.

Camper or job seeker can apply on jobs from the job list on Jobs tab. Their resume and details will be send directly to respective employer.

And employers can post new job openings using Post Your Job tab with the job details for 15 or 30 days on payment of $49 USD or $99 USD.

New Bookmarklet

A month back we released our first bookmarklet which was very basic, so this month, Aman decided to take things in his hand and he created a shiny bookmarklet for us.

It now allows you to select the text in an article that you would like to set as description.

Drag the link above to your bookmarks toolbar, and see the look. Here is the teaser

Attach twitter handle

Yes, now you can show your twitter handle in you profile page, we hope it will help you get few more followers .

We thought that since campers are taking time to share articles, which get’s tweeted to PHPCamp’s twitter id, so why not put the id of the twitter users in the message, and let them share the glory of sharing the articles.

Get notified on comments

Now you will be notified whenever a camper leaves or shares his/her thought on articles that you have shared with community.

And, off-course we have update the the theme of this blog as well.

well folks this is for now, we will be adding few more features and continue to improve PHPCamp in coming weeks.

leave your feedback below, on twitter or facebook, we are listening.