I've been seeing an increase in desperation for people looking for PHP talent on the newsgroups I subscribe to.   Yesterday I got two clicks to my blog with the phrase trouble finding php coders.  We are doing OK with our recruitment at Crowd Fusion, but we are always on the lookout for more coders.   When I look at the coders we are working with  it is a Perl guy, a Python guy and a Java guy (all of whom can do PHP).   I've got another Java programmer who I'm going to try to convert to PHP, if that works I'm going to stop looking for PHP talent and create it myself.  There is a stigma about PHP with OO programmers, it was well founded 5 years ago, but PHP is now a quality Object Oriented language.

If you want to work with a quality team on great web projects let us know. If it doesn't work out with us, I can hook you up with some other great people I've worked with, specifically Kevin Lee at Didit, and Jason Calacanis at Mahalo.