Looks like everyone's occupied preparing for the Third Hungarian PHP Conference that will be held in Budapest. This is the first time for the conference inviting speakers from other countries, Derick and Lukas are already on the way and will arrive in the afternoon to talk tomorrow about Multi-Lingual development, PHP and Performance, PEAR and Database abstraction.

I have two sessions, an introduction to WACT and I'll present some PEAR packages in my other talk.

The WACT session looks like being a "hardcore" session for experienced PHP developers. Because I have a very limited timeslot, I'll talk about WACT in general and present a "simple" tutorial, including DataSpaces/DataSources, Handles, Delegates, the Controller Architecture, Front/Page/Form/ButtonControllers, Views/FormViews, Validation including Rules and ErrorLists, Templating including Pagers and more importantly DB access. Everyone is strongly encouraged to bring multiple brains because the 45 minutes will take at least 3 per person :)

In my PEAR talk, I'll cover two template engines, HTML_Template_IT and HTML_Template_Flexy, HTML_QuickForm, DB_DataObject and DB_DataObject_FormBuilder, HTTP_Upload, Image_Transform, Mail_MIME, Mail, Mail_Queue, Auth, Auth_PrefManager and Log. One could talk about them probably for days but I only have 45 minutes so similarly to the WACT talk, this will be a short introduction for those who want to see some part of the packages that PEAR offers and/or want to extend their existing knowledge.

As far as I know this event is unique in that it's free to visit (pre-registration was needed), opposed to other local events and the international conferences. We expect around 500 visitors to come. Hopefully most of them will learn a lot during the day and it means lots of fun to everyone of course.

update: there are many other talks of course.