I recently stood before a room of fellow builders at Drupal Developer Days Athens 2026 and asked a question: "How many of you use Drupal distributions?" Lots of hands shot up across the room. But when I followed up with, "And how many of you are actually happy with them?" the room went quiet, only a couple hands remained in the air. Distributions were our solution for long to make starting easier with Drupal, so this was sad.
07 May 2026
Drupal.org aggregator
Centarro: Webinar: Your Drupal Commerce Website Doesn't Have to Be Slow
Drupal Commerce powers live auctions involving thousands of concurrent users, serves catalogues with millions of products, and presents rich product pages with hundreds of attributes and variations. And it does so with speed and reliability. In fact, it was architected to manage high volume and high complexity.
So why does your Drupal Commerce site feel so slow? Why does it feel like you're constantly fighting bottlenecks and performance problems?
It's not the platform. It's something else.
In this webinar, Ryan Szrama and Tom Ashe will cover the most common culprits behind slow Drupal Commerce sites and how you can start fixing them.
Whether you're troubleshooting a slow site yourself or managing a team that is, you'll walk away with a practical checklist to investigate and a process for diagnosing your performance issues.
Join us on Tuesday, June 9th, at 10:30 AM ET.
07 May 2026 7:11pm GMT
Symfony Blog
SymfonyDay Montreal 2026: Empower creativity with ExpressionLanguage
SymfonyDay Montreal 2026 schedule is live! Join us on June 4, 2026, at L'Espace Quartier Latin (UQAM) for a day of pure PHP and Symfony expertise. 🎤 Speaker announcement! Florian Merle, Backend Developer, baksla.sh, will present "Empower creativity…
07 May 2026 1:00pm GMT
Drupal.org aggregator
Drupal AI Initiative: Call for Papers: Enterprise AI Summit Europe 2026
The Enterprise Drupal Summit Europe 2026 will take place on 28 September 2026 in the SS Rotterdam.
We are now accepting session proposals.
Focus of the summit
The program focuses on Drupal in enterprise contexts, with emphasis on:
- Large-scale Drupal architectures
- Digital experience platforms built on Drupal
- AI use in enterprise content and delivery workflows
- Composable and API-driven architectures
- Governance, security, and compliance in regulated environments
- Operating Drupal at scale in complex organizations
The event is aimed at practitioners and decision-makers working on enterprise digital platforms.
What we are looking for
We are prioritizing submissions that are based on real implementations.
Relevant topics include:
- Case studies from enterprise or public sector deployments
- Architecture decisions in complex Drupal systems
- AI integration in content management or delivery
- Multi-site and multi-brand Drupal setups
- Sessions should be grounded in practical experience rather than product positioning.
Format
Accepted formats include:
- 20 minute talks (MAX)
- Case study presentations (focus on the business side)
- Architecture or strategy sessions
Selection criteria
Proposals will be evaluated on:
- Relevance to enterprise Drupal use cases
- Clarity of problem and solution
- Evidence of real-world implementation
- Transferable lessons for other enterprise organizations
- Technical or organizational depth
Submit a proposal
Submissions are open via Pretalx.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
07 May 2026 10:58am GMT
Gábor Hojtsy: Stability & Innovation: Web Acceleration with Drupal Core and Drupal CMS - session recording
Stability & Innovation: Web Acceleration with Drupal Core and Drupal CMS - session recording
07 May 2026 10:35am GMT
Symfony Blog
New in Symfony 8.1: Deep Cloner
Contributed by Nicolas Grekas in #63612 ,…
07 May 2026 7:38am GMT
06 May 2026
Symfony Blog
Symfony 8.1.0-BETA1 released
Symfony 8.1.0-BETA1 has just been released. This is a pre-release version of Symfony 8.1. If you want to test it in your own applications before its final release, run the following commands: 1 2 3 $ composer config minimum-stability…
06 May 2026 2:29pm GMT
01 Apr 2004
Planet PHP
ezSystems are classy folks
Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.
Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!
On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.
01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT
PHP april fools...
1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:
1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.
2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.
3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?
4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...
5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!
I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!
01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT
PHP Virus Attacking Web Hosts
Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...
01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT