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On Monday, May 11th we're holding a Meetup event at Indy Hall with Sigurd Magnusson, one of the co-founders of SilverStripe. If you are Web Producer, Designer, or Developer interested in Open Source CMS solutions, this event is a great oppourtunity to get engaged with the SilverStripe project. Sigurd will give a presentation about SilverStipe, including a sneak preview of some new features, and then we'll open up discussion to the community for questions and feedback.

SilverStripe is a user friendly and Open Source CMS that has an objected oriented (PHP5) MVC architecture. For those of you new to CMS development, its installation and set-up is similar to Wordpress, however it has some interesting points of difference:

For Developers: SilverStripe is built on Sapphire, an object-oriented PHP5 web framework designed to let you focus on your data and business logic.

For Designers: The templating engine is simple and clean, allowing for easy implementation of custom-designed sites. Template files are separated from the code so you can focus on what you love - design! The package is extremely approachable for someone with basic CSS/MySQL/PHP knowledge.

For Editors/Administrators: The CMS Administrative interface is clean and intuitive making it usable for Content Editors right out-of-the-box. Silverstripe gives editors complete control over their content, including a slick point-and-click form builder, allowing for quick and easy implementation of customized forms on your website. Other features include blog functionality, customized sidebar content on a per-page basis, and total control over URL structure, page titles, and metatdata on a per-page basis, along with simple asset management.

Check out the demo here: http://demo.silverstripe.com/

We're going back to the suburbs for our first meeting of 2009. Join us at Kildare's in King of Prussia for some good beer and good discussion about PHP and other LAMP web technologies.

There's no specific program or topic, and everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend -- newbies, career programmers considering picking up PHP, expert developers, etc. We've historically had a pretty good mix of skill and experience levels, which leads to everyone learning something from someone else.

Bring your ideas, questions, problems, and . If you're looking for a PHP job, you might find some good ideas and leads. If you need a PHP programmer to add to your team, you might find one here!

The PHP Group is invited to PANMA's holiday party at Fuzion -- this will be a pretty cool event -- we've got the nightclub to ourselves, there's no door charge and there will be an open bar and appetizers.

Please RSVP at
http://www.panma.org/reg.php

Sponsored by:
* Fuzion Grill and Social Club, an upscale multi-dimensional hospitality and entertainment establishment, the premier nightlife destination for Philadelphia's sexiest, hippest and most beautiful crowd

* PhillyUnions.com, The Online Communication Network and Buy Union/Pro-Union Guide of the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO

* Peregrine Salon, a 3-D virtual-worlds development company creating content for international organizations, universities, private companies, and artists. Peregrine Salon is also very active in Second Life

* HostMySite.com, a local web hosting partner that specializes in complex managed servers, virtual private servers (VPS hosting) and shared web hosting solutions. In addition we have a generous reseller program that may be of interested to web designers

This month we're continuing our trend of crashing other, related groups' events. We had a speaker from Adobe lined up to present on Flex, but it turns out there's another Flash/Flex speaker in town that same evening, so we're joining forces. We're co-meeting with the Philadelphia Flex User Group and joining their presentation.

For more information please visit:

http://www.pfpaug.org/core/

Enjoy!

We'll continue with the Gullifty's outdoor meetups one more month and hope for nice weather again. This time, I'm going to reserve tables ahead of time, so please do RSVP if you're coming. Look for us outside (not inside).

Come on out and discuss PHP, Drupal, beer, the shore, and whatever else strikes your fancy.