When I first received the email from Nick, I did not know what to think about that there would not be a PHP session.

Now that I think about it the turn that Salesforce has taken on their APEX code and Visualforce pages, I can see a change in Salesforce's development future. They are really trying to push that everything can be done on their platform and that their clients do not need to process anything on their own servers or applications. I do not agree with this and why am I concerned? I feel that Salesforce is stepping away from open source development. Not many posts have been made on the Salesforce PHP forums by any of the employees in many months, except SimonF.

Nick's last post was in April, I know that he is busy, but he is the lead contact dealing with the PHP toolkit. I am worried that future API changes will not be made or added to the toolkit in the future. I am going to ask Nick about this to try and get a straight answer.

The push to use APEX coding and Visualforce has forced some companies to change their philosophy on future application development in Salesforce. My company is leaning this way, which causes me to have to learn APEX and Visualforce. Now am I upset by that, not at all! I am fortunate enough that I will be able to attend a $ 4000.00, 40 hour instruction class in Atlanta from September 29th to October 4th. Not everyone will have this chance and will have to either teach themselves APEX/Visualforce or higher a contractor to develop their applications within Salesforce.

We need to stick together as PHP developers that are using Salesforce's API and push them to continue the upkeep of the toolkit with changes as their API changes. This will cause problems in the future and will turn away PHP developers from working with Salesforce in the future.