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Thanks to everyone who attended this past Wednesday. We had a good open discussion on Smarty and thanks to Ralph for having a great presentation to start the discussion.

Thanks for Brick Software for hosting this event again.

It is almost mid-year so we are looking to open a discussion on OCPHP meetup.com regarding your thoughts on how OCPHP has done so far in 2008 compared to previous years. We look forward to your opinions or critiques ( http://php.meetup.com/327/messages/boards/thread/4715316 ).

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediateavailability of PHP 5.2.6. This release focuses on improving the stability ofthe PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related.All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Further details about the PHP 5.2.6 release can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.6, the full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog for PHP 5.

PHP Classes Repository is a service created in 1999 as a means of distributing freely available programming classes of objects written in the Web scripting language named PHP. The goal of this service is to build a base of programming components ready to be used in Web applications written in PHP.

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/country/us/

Thanks for Brick Software for hosting this event.

Ralph will be presenting Smarty.

Any comments or suggestions on specific topics related to Smarty are welcome.

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O'Reilly has quite a few new items this month. This short list is just stuff I thought that our members may be interested in checking out. If you would like a full list of what's new with O'Reilly please email me.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is having their 2008 Summer of Code project. The focus of this project is to support the development of various OWASP projects. If you're interested in helping out check out the OWASP Summer of Code page.

Ralph was kind enough to provide the slides from his presentation on Eclipse.

We'd like to thank Ralph for the excellent presentation.

OCPHP has a great start to 2008 and currently has a call out for all individuals interested in presenting at one of our monthly meetups.

All you need to have is a general knowledge of the topic and a short presentation. A 10 minute presentation can easily turn into an in-depth and informative hour long group discussion.

This a great opportunity for networking within the group along with an item to add to your resume.

If you are interested, feel free to contact Craig or myself using the domain ocphp.org with the following email address....

craig.gardner@ocphp.org
william.estrada@ocphp.org

Thanks for Brick Software for hosting this event.

Jim Hunter will be giving an introduction to Delphi for PHP and and to the Facebook API.

To RSVP, go to http://php.meetup.com/327/

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Orange County PHP is proud to announce that we are participating in the O'Reilly User Group Program. This means that any O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook, Sitepoint, or YoungJin products are discounted by 35% for current OCPHP members. In addition to their printed books, they offer book previews and videos on Safari Books Online.

For more information check out http://ug.oreilly.com.