UK's second largest PHP conference announced by Magma Digital

Preston-based Magma Digital Ltd has announced the arrival of the PHPNW14 Conference for the 3rd – 5th October at the Manchester Conference Centre.

The conference marks one of the highlights of the technical events calendar in the North West. The programming language, PHP, is in use on over 80% of all web sites  and is the third most popular web programming language overall.

The user-group meets monthly while the conference occurs annually. His ambition was to create a support network in the North West run by the PHP community.

The event is organised and sponsored by Magma Digital and benefits from additional help from community members and volunteers over the course of the Conference weekend.

Jeremy Coates, PHPNW Conference founder, said: “I set up the conference with the desire to improve PHP skills in the North and provide further opportunities for learning and collaboration. Magma Digital are very proud of the fact that the months of hard work put into organising the Conference every year are paying off, with PHPNW now helping fly the flag for the North West in the international conference scene.” Sponsors are already getting on board for this year's conference, showing that PHPNW has earned itself a strong reputation as a must-attend event in the Northern technical conference scene. In 2013 40% of tickets were sold before the schedule had even been released. Tickets are now on sale on the PHPNW14 website and the call for papers has opened too.