On php|architect's ART (article repository) today, there's two new articles posted - one dealing with a popular PHP framework (that just reached the version 1.0 milestone recently) and another covering a second look at building applications with Flex.

• The first article gives a general overview of the CakePHP framework - what it is, what it has to offer, and even some simple examples of how it's all structured.
• The second article is part two of the "Rich Internet Applications with PHP and Flex" series that was started here. This time, they focus on passing data back and forth between the PHP application and the Flex side of things without the use of XML (which has to be parsed and interpreted on both sides to do anything useful.