p. Today’s special guest is Matthew Turland (Elazar to those of you who hang out on the phpc channel on freenode.net) Matt has been building PHP applications since 2002. He joined the ranks of PHP-Oracle developers in 2006 when he became a programmer for METHODS Technology Solutions. He is a regular on the PHP Community channel of the Freenode IRC network. He regularly shares his experience on his blog, a link to which can be found in the show notes.

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I had the pleasure this morning to present a screencast titled "Web Services with PHP" that was announced several days ago here on the Devzone. We had a tremendous turnout–nearly 2000 registrants! Due to technical limitations with our streaming software, we could only allow the first 550 folks into the presentation. Because of the network load, this was a difficult presentation to pull off due to lag. Paging from slide-to-slide was very delayed, so showing the code-completion capabilities of Zend Studio was nearly impossible.  Despite the technical difficulties, several good questions were asked and feedback was very positive. 

In order for everyone to see the presentation, I re-recorded it this afternoon, and it's available for your viewing. This one is much smoother, and I expanded on some of the topics that I glanced over in the first one. So even if you viewed the first attempt, you'll probably get more out of the second.

Oh yeah, congrats to Bill Rose from TX for winning a shiny new iPod Nano! 

Watch "Web Services with PHP" 

My personal thanks to Jen Walsh at Zend for all of her help with the presentation  

After the jump, we answer all the questions we received during the webcast.

J Wynia creates a cool new mashup! PHP + Amazon = Printable DVD Wallet Covers. A great sample showing a practical, real-world example of PHP doing the Web 2.0 thing.