If your company is interested in sponsoring the 2010 event, or becoming a media or community partner, please download and read the PDF attachment at the bottom of the page and get in touch with PHP London's secretary, Matt Raines, at secretary@phplondon.org.

PayPal

PayPal has opened its PayPal X global payments platform to third-party developers, ushering in a new generation of innovative payments. On November 3rd 2009, PayPal X became the world's first truly open global online payment platform.

By opening our platform, we're giving developers access to the global payment engine we've built over the last decade, with:

• more than 78 million active PayPal accounts
• connections to 15,000 financial institutions around the world
• availability in 190 markets and 24 currencies

The network is the platform on which the potential of digital money will be fully realised.

PayPal has put developers in the driver's seat, providing the tools needed to change the future of payments – from mobile apps to social networks and payroll. Developers can now monetize their ideas and tap into the $30 trillion global payments opportunity - the next wave of payments innovation is in their hands.

PayPal X will be defined by the developer community. To help shape the direction of our open platform we've enlisted the help and feedback of over a thousand developers through our beta program.

WebsiteSpark

Microsoft's approach to developing innovative products and solutions demonstrates its commitment to supporting the development of the UK economy. WebsiteSpark is a new initiative designed to help smaller web businesses broaden their skill sets and seek out new business opportunities. If you're a professional designer or developer in a company with ten people or less, then this could be an ideal opportunity for you.

In recent years a number of traits that make open source and development successful are starting to appear in Microsoft products. Microsoft has also worked with the PHP community to greatly improve the performance and stability of PHP on Windows so that now the Windows web platform supports all web workloads.

If you want to find out more about Microsoft's involvement and the offerings that could be beneficial to you then come talk to us at the conference where we will have some great technology for you to play with.

Facebook

Facebook is a social utility that helps over 400 million people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and co-workers. The site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP and over the past few years, the company has developed a number of open source infrastructure technologies to support the site's growth including Cassandra, Hive, Scribe and Thrift.

Facebook engineers actively contribute and participate in various open source projects, developing technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph.

Bytemark

Bytemark are the UK's geek hosting outfit of choice, supplying virtual machines, dedicated servers and completely managed deals to any enterprise clever enough to put technology enthsuaists at the helm. For managed customers, we know how to keep modern web technologies up and running, and help you pick out bugs in your code and problems in your deployment. For everyone else we provide e-mail and phone support from Linux experts, root access, free backup space, DNS hosting and SMS watchdogs - all from £15 per month.

ibuildings

Established in 1999, ibuildings are the PHP authority in the UK and The Netherlands. They help organisations by developing complex web applications built on open source technologies. ibuildings offer a comprehensive range of PHP services including application development, training, professional consulting and 24/7 support. They are also a proud representative of Zend and php|architect. Ibuildings employs over 40 Zend Certified Engineers with extensive experience in working with large-scale, high-traffic websites.

After their positive experience at the last two PHP UK Conferences, ibuildings is proud to be a sponsor once again in 2010, believing that PHP wouldn't be where it is today without the active user groups and conferences. Ibuildings is dedicated to supporting the PHP ecosystem; they invest time and resources to help various open source projects through their PHP Centre of Expertise. By giving back through code as well as supporting community events, they hope to contribute some of their success back to the community.

data.gov.uk

Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and others, government is opening up data for reuse. Data.gov.uk seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data and is under constant development. We want to work with you to make it better.

We're very aware that there are more people like you outside of government who have the skills and abilities to make wonderful things out of public data. Data.gov.uk is your online resource for freely available government data, and a place to upload and showcase your apps making use of it.

GroupSpaces

GroupSpaces is a fast-growing, well-funded London-based startup developing technology to help real-world groups and communities manage themselves online. Today our software helps manage over ½ million memberships for sports clubs, charities, university societies, national associations and many other groups, and we're only just getting started.

GroupSpaces is currently looking for top PHP developers to come join us. If you like a challenge, have what it takes to succeed and want to help create something your friends and family can use and enjoy, please come chat to us at the conference, get in touch at jobs@groupspaces.com or find more details on our website.

Logical Elements

As Zend's official training partner in the UK, Logical Elements delivers official Zend PHP training courses from beginner to certification levels, as well as Zend Framework and MySQL courses.

We have delivered training to a wide range of clients, including the BBC, Virgin Media, Edinburgh University, Orange and Logica, as well as many web development organisations and freelancers.

We're delighted to be involved with this year's conference, and have some special training offers for conference attendees, so please stop by our stand to say 'Hi' and discuss how we can help with your PHP and web development training requirements.

O'Reilly

Publisher of the iconic 'animal books' for software developers, creator of the first commercial website (GNN), organiser of the summit meeting that gave the open source software movement its name, and prime instigator of the DIY revolution through its Make magazine, O'Reilly continues to concoct new ways to connect people with the information they need. O'Reilly conferences and summits bring alpha geeks and forward-thinking business leaders together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. Long the information source of choice for technologists, the company now also delivers the knowledge of expert early adopters to everyday computer users. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation.

Packt Publishing

Packt published its first book, Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management, in April 2004 and has continued to specialize in publishing focused books on specific technologies and solutions.

Packt's books and publications share the experiences of fellow IT professionals in adapting and customizing today's systems, applications, and frameworks. Its solutions-based books give you the knowledge and power to customize the software and technologies you're using to get the job done. Packt books are more specific and less general than the IT books you have seen in the past.

Packt is delighted to support the PHP UK Conference once again and regards it as an important and key event for PHP developers in the UK.

TEKsystems

TEKsystems®, the IT division of Allegis Group, provides technology staffing and services, helping businesses deploy high-calibre IT and communications expertise under a range of delivery options including Staffing Services, Team Services, Global Services, and Workforce Management Services. They have become a billion-dollar services company by continually building on what they do best - blending superior client service with an unrivalled ability to source and manage talent to precise specifications, resulting in successful technology executions.

Their offerings address various applications, infrastructure, and communications needs including technology deployment services, enterprise software support services, and asset management services.

Techfluff.TV

Techfluff.TV is an Internet TV show featuring the hottest start-ups' entrepreneurs, news and events from the European tech scene, presented by Hermione Way. Techfluff.TV is sponsored by TechCrunch UK, Sun Microsystems, and Flip video.

PHP London

PHP London is a non-profit group founded in 2004 to promote knowledge sharing and best practice amongst PHP developers and web development and business professionals in London. The main product right now is a regular PHP meetup - basically a monthly PHP PubCon - which is held on the first Thursday of every month. PHP London also runs the PHP UK conferences.

PHPNW

PHPNW is a community of web developers, web designers and anyone else interested in PHP, from the north west of England.

They meet on the first Tuesday each month in a bar in the centre of Manchester, and attract people from Leeds to Liverpool, Lancaster to Cheshire in regular attendance. They have run two conference events so far with another planned for 2010.

PHPWomen

PHPWomen is a user group specifically targeted toward the women in the PHP world. Their aim is to provide a network of support and mentorship to women, help them become more involved with PHP, increase their numbers at conferences as speakers and attendees, and provide a 'female friendly' atmosphere.

Facebook Developer Garage London

FDGL is a non-profit group founded in 2007 to promote knowledge sharing and networking within the growing Facebook application development community in London and the UK. It runs around 10 events per year, organised on Facebook itself, attended by entrepreneurs, recruiters, technology journalists and of course developers, each with a schedule of short 5 to 15 minute 'tapas' talks lasting around 90 minutes in total.

Drupal UK

A simple description of Drupal is that it's a great CMS (Content Management System), social networking and publishing application, forum, and blogging tool - the more complete answer is that Drupal is a framework written in PHP for quickly and reliably building all kinds of powerful web applications.

The UK Drupal community organises events, helps clients find local Drupal developers, enables local Drupal developers keep in touch, discusses UK specific issues, and generally encourages Drupal connections from Land's End to John O'Groats.

Agavi

Agavi is a powerful, scalable PHP5 application framework that follows the MVC paradigm. It enables developers to write clean, maintainable and extensible code. Established in 2005, Agavi puts choice and freedom over limiting conventions, and focuses on sustained quality rather than short-sighted decisions.

Web Directions @media

Founded in Australia in 2004, by long time web industry figures Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp, Web Directions conferences bring together the web industry's leading experts from around the world to educate and inspire our attendees.

Bringing together world experts in design and development, over 2 days of conference and 2 days of workshops (June 8-11), Web Directions @media is coming to London's South Bank to continue the tradition of being the professional and networking event of the year for the web industry.

Special offer: use the code' PHPLondon' to register for just £399.

Our sponsors from previous years are listed for your interest:

• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006