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.

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.

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.

If you like PHPCamp, and want to help it grow, then here are two things you can do.

1. You should become fan of PHPCamp on Facebook here.
2. If you have a blog/website then you can helps us by putting boiling article’s RSS feed on your site. You can find more about that here.

Additionally, you can also encourage your web developer friends to do the same.

Here are few ways to display Boiling Links from PHPcamp on your blog or website.

WordPress

1. Download and Install the Simple Feed List Plugin.
2. Active it.
3. Put following code somewhere on your template
   <?php if(function_exists(’simple_feed_list’)) simple_feed_list(’http://phpcamp.net/feed’,5,’No’); ?>

OR

You can use RSS Widget to your sidebar, Just use http://phpcamp.net/feed as your feed url.

Blogger

1. Go to “settings –> edit layout”
2. Click on “Add a Gadget” and scroll down to RSS gadget
3. Add that gadget
4. Set the feed url to http://phpcamp.net/feed
5. Save the template.

Joomla

1. Login to Administrator section of your website
2. Go to “Extensions –> Module manager”
3. Click on “New” button on top right corner
4. Select “Feed Display” and click “Next”
5. Set Title to “Boiling on PHPCamp” or whatever you like
6. Set Feed URL to http://phpcamp.net/feed
7. Click on the “Save” Button.

Drupal

I have not used drupal to comment, can a drupaler give us the step to do

update: As usual Abhishek points out how to do it in Drupal in the comment below

Others

Please wait few days we will be releasing our own widget to display “Boiling Links”.

Enjoy!!!