The Web & PHP Magazine has officially released their latest issue - the May 2013 edition, "Time Travel".

You may already be familiar with Git, but did you know that it can rewrite time itself? GitHubber Ben Straub explains all in this month's issue, which also features tutorials on extracting XML data from RSS, using Composer to manage project dependencies and using the PHP Content Repository. If you've ever thought about starting a PHP user group, Atlanta PHP User Group co-organiser Kevin Roberts shares his secrets - plus, there's our regular columns on agile, big data and testing.

Articles included in this latest issue include:

• "Change the Past" (Ben Straub)
• "Why do User Groups?" (Kevin Roberts)
• "Sprint Retrospective Primer" (Steffan Surdek)
• "Urban Legends and Error Handling" (Stefan Priebsch)
• "Managing your project's dependencies with Composer" (Jefersson Nathan de O. Chaves)

As always, this issue is available free of charge and can be downloaded directly from their site.

The php|architect magazine has released their latest issue - the April 2013 edition focusing on security:

The April issue is out and it's all about Security! We cover the gambit of topics including two-factor authentication, password hashing and securing file uploads. All our regular columns also appear, making this a jam-packed magazine full of PHP goodness.

Articles in this month's edition include:

• Securing File Uploads - Chris Tankersley
• Best Practices for Password Hashing in PHP - John Congdon
• Security-driven Development - Beth Tucker-Long
• When a Password Isn't Enough: Two-factor Authentication and You - Chris Stone

Check out the php|architect site for more info on picking up your own copy.

The March issue of php|architect magazine has been published and this month it's all about APIs. Articles in this issue include:

• Building APIs in Zend Framework 2 (Chris Tankersley)
• Good API Design Is Not a Fairy Tale (Keith Casey)
• API Documentation and Testing with I/O Docs (Jason McCreary)
• Education Station: Fix Poorly Written Legacy Code with PHP-CS-Fixer (Matthew Setter)
• (Re)Introducing Magento: Configuration XML (Ben Marks)

You can pick up this single issue for about $5 USD or you can subscribe for a full 12 issues (PDF edition).

The latest issue of the Web and PHP Magazine has been published - issue #12, "Don't get in a PECL". This latest issue includes articles like:

• "The Power of PECL" by Simon Holywell
• "Be 'ready' if you want to be done!" by Steffan Surdek
• "All Data is Relational" by Cory Isaacson
• "Fixing PHP Production Problems with APM" by Dan Delany and Chris Kelly
• "Trust" by Sebastian Bergmann

You can download your copy for free from their site and catch up on back issues.

The February issue of the php|architect magazine has been published with a focus on community. This latest release includes articles like:

• "Running a PHP User Group" (John Congdon)
• "I'm the Organizer, Now What?" (Chris Stone)
• "Hackathons: Five Steps to Awesome Sauce" (Matthew Davis)
• "The Case For Open Source Software Contribution" (Andrew Podner)
• "Bug Zapper: ZendFormForm a New Friend?" (Bart McLeod)

You can order a single issue for about $5 USD or you can get a full year's subscription for just $35 USD. To check out some of the back issues, take a look in their archives.

Lorna Mitchell has shared some advice about correcting an issue with PHP and Gearman after she did an upgrade via PECL.

I upgraded PHP and related pecl modules on my development machine today, and ran into a problem with Gearman. Actually I ran into more than one! Firstly the challenge of getting the newest pecl version working with a gearman version. Then an error where my existing PHP application couldn't connect to gearman after upgrade.

Running on Ubuntu, she found this tutorial helpful in getting Gearman back into a working state and installed (version 1.1.1). The "unable to connect" error turned out to be a change in how the Gearman connection needed to be made - the addition of a port to the connection string made things work again.

In his latest post Fabien Potencier introduces a new effort to help PHP developers using Composer for their dependencies find potential security issues automatically - the security.sensiolabs.com site.

I want to provide a simple and efficient way to check for vulnerabilities in a project and I want to serve more than just the Symfony community. That's why I'm really proud to announce a new SensioLabs initiative: a simple way to check if your project depends on third-party libraries with known security issues. The website explains how it works in details (https://security.sensiolabs.org/), but basically, this initiative gives you several ways to check for security issues in your project dependencies based on the information contained in you composer.lock file (you are using Composer to manage your dependencies, right?)

Composer users can upload their "composer.lock" file and the system will evaluate it against the vulnerabilities it knows about and return any issues it might find. The current database is hosted on github and can be added to by anyone using a pull request. Additionally, you can install the command-line version if you want to do checks locally.

The latest issue of Web & PHP Magazine has been released today - issue 11, "Climate Change". This new edition includes articles like:

• "PHP in the Cloud" By Frédéric Harper
• "Develop your Agile mindset" By Steffan Surdek
• "Database Indexing part 2" By Cory Isaacson
• "Presenting For Geeks eBook teaser" By Dirk Haun
• "Level Crossings and Traffic Jams" By Stefan Priebsch

As always, you can pick up this issue for free by either registering or logging into your account. You can also get the back issues from the site too for more great reading.

php|architect has published their latest issue, the January 2013 edition of the magazine with the theme of "Testing and Standards". Articles in this new issue include:

• "Coding Conventions" from Andrew Podner
• "Properly Documenting Your Code" by Chris Tankersley
• "Testing in PHP" by Jeff Carouth
• "Education Station: Markup? Markdown!" by Matthew Setter
• "Shop Talk: (Re)Introducing Magento" from Ben Marks

You can pick up the single issue for about $5 USD or you can get a 1 year subscription to get this and more great issues - Basic is $35 USD and Premium is $65 USD.

The latest issue of the Web & PHP Magazine has been published - Issue #10. This issue can be downloaded for free and has articles about:

• Building an Identity Extraction Engine in PHP (Jonathan LeBlanc)
• 5 Deadly Programming Sins (Michael Stowe)
• Physical Security Fail (Arne Blankerts)
• Database Indexing (Cory Isaacson)

You can also download previous issues of the magazine for free after registering or logging in to your account.