For about 6 months now, I've been itching to write a book on the PHP Streams Layer - one of my favorite features of PHP; and also one of the least known considering it's powerful abilities.

He describes his goal simply as this: to create the definitive resource for working with the streams later in PHP. It should be out sometime in the third quarter of 2008, so keep your eye out for it then.

Frameworks are everywhere in the PHP community these days. Different frameworks fill different needs and have different personalities behind them. Recently I had the opportunity to talk with Francois Zaninotto and Fabien Potencier, the driving forces behind the symfony framework. Not too long ago, symfony released their 1.0 milestone version. They have also released their extensive documentation in print from Apress, as well as on the web.

The questions range from the usual "how did you get started with PHP" out to questions about the book, about the framework, and about the documentation surrounding both.

Continuing in their tradition of having their finger on the pulse of PHP, apress has recently released their latest title, The Definitive Guide to symfony. My friend, Julie Miller sent me over the first chapter to share with you.

The chapter [pdf] is the beginning of the book, the introduction to get you started on the road to using the framework.

Many impatient symfony users complained that the online version of the book missed the keywords sidebar. We didn't have time to rewrite it for the launch of the online book, but now it is repaired. Google is currently rebuilding its index of our website, so the search box in this sidebar will soon give relevant results again.

They've also created a less graphic version to make things even faster. Other "translation initiatives" have also started up to get the book put into Chinese, French, and Spanish.