# On Being a PHP "Star"


By Ben Ramsey

Published on September 22, 2007


Last week, during php\|works, [Andrew Collington](http://blog.amnuts.com/) quietly sat down with us after a long day of tutorials. He kept his mouth shut, so his presence went largely unnoticed, but [his blog](http://blog.amnuts.com/2007/09/12/is-this-what-being-starstruck-feels-like/) was unable to escape the wide range of my ego.

> Right now I'm sitting at a table with the likes of Cal Evans, Ben Ramsey, Sara Goleman, and Derick Rethans---all big players in the PHP world. And here I am, lowly ol' me who does a bit of PHP at work. Wow. I feel a little starstruck (in a geeky kinda way), I have to admit!

Wow! I'm a STAR! Following this realization, this conversation ensued on #phpc:

```irc
<CalEvans> :) I'm a bit player in the PHP drama...jsut happy to be on
           the stage.
<ramsey> same here
<Elazar> Pffft... your names are better known than most of the people
         in here. :P
<ramsey> I'm known for having a name, though... nothing else ;-)
* ramsey is like the Paris Hilton of the PHP world...
<CalEvans> That would make me Lohan?
```