First off this morning, Zend has their lastest and greatest Weekly Summary. We're getting closer and closer to PHP 4.1.0 - I can almost smell it (heh). One cool note I see in there is the addition of file_md5() which allows you to md5 a file without even opening it. whee!

Evolt.org has a review of the lastest Zend IDE as used to code PHP. It's a short little piece, but it does make some good points, especially the final one. cough

Thanks to MarkL this morning for providing a link to a fun little thing that many may find useful - A PHP Obfuscator/Obscurer. It is a free and open PHP program that makes PHP sourcecode almost impossible to read and edit for normal humans. And, as MarkL puts it The code I produce tends to be obfusticated anyway, but some may find this application useful.

And, last but not least, quamper wrote in to tell us all about a DOM XML parser written in pure PHP. eZ XML 1.0 is one of many products from this company, but they all apprear to be freely downloadable. Check out thier full listing at http://doc.ez.no/article/archive/2/.