Smashing Magazine has started off a new feature of their site - an "Ask SM" where they gather questions their readers ask about different topics like CSS, Javascript and, of course, PHP. This new post is one such response. There's five quick questions answered in this new post:

• Form validation with PHP
• Converting MySQL to XML
• require_once()-problem
• Search in different tables?
• Getting information out of an XML-file

Here at Smashing Magazine, we want to help out PHP programmers who are just getting started or who want to improve their programming chops. Our goal is to support our community by answering their questions and trying to find solutions to their problems.

You can submit your questions in one of two ways - either via their forum or by sending a tweet (that's on Twitter to him @jasonatennui.