Iwan Luijks has written up the first part in a series looking at using the Enchant extension - an interface to other third-party spell-checking APIs.

PHP 5.3 introduced us to some new bundled extensions, including Enchant. The Enchant extension is a binding for the Enchant library. Note: Before PHP 5.3, Enchant was available as optional extension through PECL. This article however only covers the setup and usage of the bundled extension in PHP 5.3 This short tutorial gives an introduction to setting up and using this new extension for your PHP projects.

He talks a bit about what Enchant is and what it allows you to do (including releasing you from the language-specific dependencies of Aspell). Instructions on installing and using the extension are also included as well as a sample code snippet showing its use (checking a string against installed dictionaries). Since the dictionary installation isn't exactly intuitive, he gives an overview of where to grab them and how to set them up for your installation.

Pierre-Alain Joye has some new updates concerning his Zip package, one about version 1.7.0 reaching the beta stage and the other about the documentation available online for it.

From the first post:

Zip-1.7.0 has been released today. It has finally reached beta quality. A couple of important bugs have been catched. It also add a new mode for ZipArchive::open(), ZIPARCHIVE::OVERWRITE. It will always start a new archive and overwrite the existing file.

You can find the full list of changes in the Changelog for this release.

In post number two he talks more about the new documentation he's added to the main manual for the Zip package:

Writing documentations is not reallly my cup of tea, I'm too lazy (Sue me! But the php documentation team has managed to convince me to write and commit it. You can find the initial version online here.

Pierre-Alain Joye has some new updates concerning his Zip package, one about version 1.7.0 reaching the beta stage and the other about the documentation available online for it.

From the first post:

Zip-1.7.0 has been released today. It has finally reached beta quality. A couple of important bugs have been catched. It also add a new mode for ZipArchive::open(), ZIPARCHIVE::OVERWRITE. It will always start a new archive and overwrite the existing file.

You can find the full list of changes in the Changelog for this release.

In post number two he talks more about the new documentation he's added to the main manual for the Zip package:

Writing documentations is not reallly my cup of tea, I'm too lazy (Sue me! But the php documentation team has managed to convince me to write and commit it. You can find the initial version online here.