Just when you thought they were past putting out the one for this week (or maybe that their web server was just broken), Zend puts out their latest PHP Weekly Summary.

In this week's summary, there's a few important things to note - first off, there's a note that the MySQL extension for PHP 5 has been completely rewritten. What does this mean for you? Well, faster access times, tighter integration, different kinds of connections (compressed/ssl), and replication support. It'll be pretty cool to see what the future holds on this one.

Also, there are a few other, smaller items that are worth noting - things like a link to the "all functions" reference on the PHP.net website, and the fact that the new file() will have some abilities that it's older brothers didn't (things like the ability to remove the new line character at the end of each output line, and being able to skip blank lines all together).