On the Making the Web blog, there's this post that talks about looking forward with your code and making it ready for when PHP6 comes around.

If you want to make use of PHP 6 when it comes, you're going to have to write your new scripts so they are compatible, and possibly change some of your existing scripts. To start making your scripts PHP 6 compatible, I've compiled a list of tips to follow when scripting.

There's only five things in his list (like "stop using magic_quotes" and "don't register long arrays") but the comments provide many more additional gotchas to look out for and new features that will be included.

On the Making the Web blog, there's this post that talks about looking forward with your code and making it ready for when PHP6 comes around.

If you want to make use of PHP 6 when it comes, you're going to have to write your new scripts so they are compatible, and possibly change some of your existing scripts. To start making your scripts PHP 6 compatible, I've compiled a list of tips to follow when scripting.

There's only five things in his list (like "stop using magic_quotes" and "don't register long arrays") but the comments provide many more additional gotchas to look out for and new features that will be included.

From the International PHP Magazine, the latest issue has been released - November 2006 - and is available for order over on their website.

Contents of this edition include:

• The cover story, "Automated Tests with PHPUnit 2" by Stefan Priebsch
• Elizabeth Naramore's "Freelancers Corner"
• Marc Isikoff talking about "Strings and Arrays"
• Arjen Lentz looking at the transactional storage engine, Falcon, that MySQL offers

You can check out the full table of contents to see what else the issue has in store, or just head over and subscribe to this great PHP publication.

From the International PHP Magazine, the latest issue has been released - November 2006 - and is available for order over on their website.

Contents of this edition include:

• The cover story, "Automated Tests with PHPUnit 2" by Stefan Priebsch
• Elizabeth Naramore's "Freelancers Corner"
• Marc Isikoff talking about "Strings and Arrays"
• Arjen Lentz looking at the transactional storage engine, Falcon, that MySQL offers

You can check out the full table of contents to see what else the issue has in store, or just head over and subscribe to this great PHP publication.

The KillerPHP Blog is back today with another video, this time it's part two of a very useful topic, expecially for those just learning PHP - processing forms with PHP from Stefan Mischook.

Having covered the basics of forms in the first video, I now jump into the actual PHP code and introduce (for the first time) a built-in PHP construct called 'Super Globals'.

We learn that Super Globals are associative arrays (that they hold lots of useful information,) that are automatically created by the PHP engine.

You can check out the video here.

The KillerPHP Blog is back today with another video, this time it's part two of a very useful topic, expecially for those just learning PHP - processing forms with PHP from Stefan Mischook.

Having covered the basics of forms in the first video, I now jump into the actual PHP code and introduce (for the first time) a built-in PHP construct called 'Super Globals'.

We learn that Super Globals are associative arrays (that they hold lots of useful information,) that are automatically created by the PHP engine.

You can check out the video here.

In a continuing series of introductory video tutorials they offer, KillerPHP has posted to new ones - one covering associative arrays and the other covering indexed arrays.

The videos, seven in all now are done with a voice-over talking about what the feature is and includes bits of code to help explain the discussion.

Topics so far include:

• Includes
• Configuring WAMP
• PHP Variables, Part 1 and Part 2

You can get complete information on these screencasts from the KillerPHP site.

In a continuing series of introductory video tutorials they offer, KillerPHP has posted to new ones - one covering associative arrays and the other covering indexed arrays.

The videos, seven in all now are done with a voice-over talking about what the feature is and includes bits of code to help explain the discussion.

Topics so far include:

• Includes
• Configuring WAMP
• PHP Variables, Part 1 and Part 2

You can get complete information on these screencasts from the KillerPHP site.

In a follow-up to his brief opinion on the Tim Bray comments about PHP, Harry Fuecks has poested this longer rant on the SitePoint PHP blog today.

He looks at eight different topics:

• It's the execution model
• Excellent database support
• PHP Arrays
• The SPL Extension
• PHP 5(.1) XML Support
• The stuff that says it works...works
• Unicode and ICU
• Stuck in Little boxes

For each of them he explains them briefly, dispelling any rumors that might have come up from those not as experienced with the PHP language.

Update: if you'd like to help promote it, it's been digged.

In a follow-up to his brief opinion on the Tim Bray comments about PHP, Harry Fuecks has poested this longer rant on the SitePoint PHP blog today.

He looks at eight different topics:

• It's the execution model
• Excellent database support
• PHP Arrays
• The SPL Extension
• PHP 5(.1) XML Support
• The stuff that says it works...works
• Unicode and ICU
• Stuck in Little boxes

For each of them he explains them briefly, dispelling any rumors that might have come up from those not as experienced with the PHP language.

Update: if you'd like to help promote it, it's been digged.