PHP Groups networks PHP user groups into a tighter community, provides a means to share information and resources among its community members, and aids in the formation of new PHP user groups.
PHP Groups is a communication tool, allowing PHP user group leaders to connect with one another. For now, we provide a forum, mailing list, and wiki to facilitate this communication. More tools will follow in the future.
Since PHP Groups is dedicated to providing a means for user group organizers to communicate, collaborate, and share, we provide a wiki where this kind of exchange may take place.
To contribute to the wiki, you must register for an account on our forum.
For those who prefer using a web-based forum, our forum is open to all who wish to take part in the discussion and communication between PHP user groups. This forum is also synchronized with our mailing lists so that all posts made to the forum will be sent to the mailing list. Please read this topic for more information.
You must register to use our forum, but the archives are available to everyone.
Proceed to the forum at http://forum.phpgroups.org/.
Join us in #phpgroups on Freenode for off-list discussions. The results of these discussions will often be posted to the list/forum for others to follow and comment.
The original idea for PHP Groups comes from a blog post made by Chris Shiflett on 02 Mar 2004. Shortly thereafter, Chris registered the phpm.org domain name, paying homage to Perl Mongers. A mailing list, hosted by New York PHP, was set up and had a little traffic at first, but it eventually grew stagnant, and the project went into hibernation. Two years passed, and, after successes with Atlanta PHP and over discussions at PHP Appalachia, Ben Ramsey felt the need to resurrect the project as a PHP user group network. By this time, Chris Shiflett was now the owner of phpgroups.org, and after some discussion among members of OINK-PUG, Nashville PHP, Triangle PHP, and Atlanta PHP, the fledgling network decided to use the new moniker “PHP Groups.” Thus, on 12 Oct 2006, PHP Groups was born.