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Sydney PHP Group provides a community for PHP developers in Sydney, Australia.
We run regular meetings in the city and membership is free and open to anyone with an interest in web development.

How do I join?

Register an account on our blog

What next?

After registration, you can RSVP one or more attendees for events. If you wish to present, come to a meeting and have a chat with a group organiser.

Who are the organisers?

Currently Tim, James, Graham and Dean. One or more of us will be attending each meeting and you can reach us by DM'ing sydphp on Twitter

Get yourself known!

Do you provide web development related services in Sydney and want to be known in the Sydney PHP development community? You can reach our community by getting your RSS/ATOM feed syndicated on sydphp.org.

Current Events

View and RSVP to current events

Subscribe to the one-way announcement mailing list at Google Groups for updates.

PHP Jobs in Sydney

We a provide a free, one-way mailing list at Google Groups. Posts are moderated before being published.

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Web remote control for virtualbox machines (author: Dan)

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I am fond of web-based control panels for desktop software. Being a big user of virtualbox (and php), this was a good find...

http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/

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PHP for android (author: Dan)

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And now you can PHP scripts on your android phone. I'm gonna think of a reason I might want this, I know I am...

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Mid-Senior PHP Developer for Digital Giant – World-Class, High-Traffic and Market-Leading Web Site Development! (author: PBISearch)

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This Digital Giant based in Sydney are seeking the services of a
highly skilled Mid / Senior PHP Developer to join their exceptional
team.

Working in state-of-the-art offices (onsite restaurant, cafe, gym,
pool) the successful candidate will develop on a diverse range of
bleeding-edge, world-class and market leading websites and be given

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Local variables with xdebug, PHP 5.3 and netbeans (author: Dan)

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If you aren't seeing your local variables when debugging PHP 5.3 with xdebug you can upgrade to xdebug 2.1 to set things right...

details here:

http://phphints.wordpress.com/2010/06/2 ... bug-2-0-5/

and here:

http://icephoenix.us/php/xdebug-doesnt- ... lipse-pdt/

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MySQL query caching for PHP (author: Dan)

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You may already use memcache for storing data in memory to speed up your PHP applications. You may use PHP caching accelerators like APC to speed up your PHP execution. You may even use MySQL's built-in query caching to speed up data access. But now there's a new cache on the block...

The MySQLnd Query Cache Plugin for PHP can store MySQL results on the web server, which means less hits on your database and less network traffic (if you use sepratae servers for PHP and MySQL).

I don't think I'll be deploying this in production anytime soon, but it is definately on my radar.

You can check a video here:

http://blog.ulf-wendel.de/?p=286

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