Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• PHP.net: PHP 5.6.0RC4 is available

• SitePoint PHP Blog: How to Create a Unique 64bit Integer from String
• Geshan Manandhar: 3 Bundles to get started with REST in Symfony 2 and some tips
• Symfony Blog: Pre-conference workshops at SymfonyLive New York and SymfonyCon Madrid are online!
• Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Beth Tucker Long
• SitePoint PHP Blog: PHP Dependency Injection Container Performance Benchmarks
• Geshan Manandhar: Getting started with PHP (LEMP) on Vagrant, the easiest way
• SitePoint PHP Blog: IronMQ and Laravel: Delays and Retries
• Johannes Schlüter: PHP 5.3 - Thanks for all the Fish
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Data Validation in Laravel - Introduction & Custom Validators
• Przemek Sobstel: Preventing the Dogpile Effect
• Qandidate.com Blog: Handling AngularJS POST requests in Symfony
• Mathias Verraes: Resolving Feature Envy in the Domain
• Allan MacGregor: Exploring Hack: Building a MicroFramework
• Cal Evans: Step 0 when hiring PHP developers online. Get this right!
• SitePoint Web Blog: From Developer to Product Manager: A 3 Stage Plan
• Piotr Pasich: CakePHP with Symfony’s2 router
• Brandon Savage: What’s in your Composer file?
• Qandidate.com Blog: Asynchronous fault tolerant programming with PHP
• PHP.net: PHP 5.3.29 is available, PHP 5.3 reaching end of life
• Three Devs & A Maybe Podcast: The First All-Episode Quiz