The folks over at Mayflower are running a poll asking you what PHP framework you use the most in your development.

Options include CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Prado, Zend Framwork and Symfony. You'll need to get your vote in before November 15th and represent your framework of choice.

As of the time of this post, Zend Framework is out in the lead with around 35 percent of the votes with the "I use my own framework" and "Other" options following up behind with around 16 percent each.

Stuart Herbert has an informal post asking for feedback on how many developers/organizations out there have already adopted this latest version of PHP.

Now that PHP 5.3 has been around for a few months and we've started seeing plenty of blog posts covering all the new features in PHP 5.3, I'm wondering whether or not you have actually moved to PHP 5.3 yet.

To cast your vote, head over to this poll and choose one of the options (or Other). As of the time of this post, it looks like the "No, my $distro doesn't support it yet" option is barely in the lead in front of "Yes...and I'm loving it!". There's lots of reasons in the "Other" category as well. Get your vote in before September 21st when the poll closes.

Stuart Herbet has posted a poll for the PHP developers asking when they think they'll make the next big jump - up to PHP 5.3.

As part of the research I'm doing for a new conference talk, I'm running a poll to find out when people are planning to switch to PHP 5.3. After the very slow uptake of PHP 5.0, I'm very curious to see how quickly PHP 5.3 will be adopted.

Options include "As soon as it comes out", "Not until $customer needs something only in PHP 5.3", "When $hosting-company adds support for it" and "PHP 5.3 isn't very interesting to me". As of right now it's a close race between as soon as it's out and within three months of release. Seems like there'll be a lot of early adopters. Cast your vote!

Douglas Brown is running a poll in a new post to his blog asking which of the six choices (of the major PHP frameworks) is your favorite PHP framework.

In a perfect world, I would suggest to learn them all! However, there are only 24 hours in a day, and prioritizing your PHP framework education might be a good idea. So above I added a poll that I plead to other PHP developers out there to vote on. Hopefully after a lot of participation we will see the most popular PHP framework.

His motivation is to provide a good resource to developers looking to choose a framework and wanting to find one of the best supported and most used choices. He also solicits comments on the post if you have opinions on why one framework shines above the rest.

The NETTUTS.com website has a new tutorial posted that combines PHP and AJAX (using the the jQuery library specifically) to create a simple dynamic poll.

When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. In this tutorial we'll create a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation.

The PHP handles defining the question, answers and the functionality to load, submit and return the current results (number of votes) back to the javascript. The communication between the PHP and javascript is a JSON message made simple thanks to PHP's json_encode function.

You can download the source or check out a live demo to see how it all fits together.

Roshan Bhattarai has set up an informal poll in an entry on his site asking visitors to rate what they think the "best" PHP framework is.

I've been asked a lot of times which is the best PHP framework. Well, it's a very difficult question to answer this question and there are some pros and corns in each framework. So, today I would to hear your views via poll.

Included in the list are CakePHP, Symfony, Zend Framework, CodeIgniter. Coming out with around forty-three percent of the votes, though, is the Zend Framework with CakePHP following with twenty-two percent.

Tim Koschuetzki has started up a new poll on his site asking its visitors questions involving CakePHP:

The new poll asks you if you are using the CakePHP Framework already or if you plan on using it. For those of you who don't know it yet - it's in my opinion th framework to go these days. The easy and intuitive MVC architecture and the components in it make php development really easy and fun.

So far there haven't been any votes (it's still pretty new) so get on over and voice your opinion now.

CakePHP is one of the more popular and powerful PHP frameworks out there and it has a loyal following of dedicated users and developers on its team. It's definitely worth checking out if you're still perusing the market for a framework to go with.

As mentioned by Nick Halstead, the results are in from the poll for the "Most Influential Programmers" list that he put together, including a PHP name in the top five.

About a month ago I posted my Top 10 most influential programmers which caused a bit of a stir. So I then followed it up with an online poll which I said I would run for a month. The time is up and the final results are in.

Coming in at fifth place is Rasmus Lerdorf of PHP fame (topped by the likes of Linus Torvads and Alan Turing). As Nick mentions, though, it was interesting to see that Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans only received a handful of votes.

The PHP-GTK Community site has posted a new poll that ask PHP-GTK developers which, of the choices provided is their favorite editing widget used in their applications.

The choices are:

• GtkScintilla
• GtkSourceView
• GtkTextView

They also included the "Homegrown" option for anyone that might have whipped up their own. At the time of this posting, GtkScintilla and GtkTextView are tied with two votes apiece. If you're a PHP-GTK developer and have worked much with text editing widgets, head over and cast your vote today!

Nick Halstead is conducting a poll of his own to try to figure out who the online community thinks are the "Top 10 Programmers of All Time".

My original list was based upon my programming background and was purely my own opinion and I did not expect everyone to agree with it. What I thought I would do this time round was to give everyone a chance to voice their opinion. [...] have pre-filled 18 programmers from my original list plus those that were suggested in the comments.

You can vote on a wide range of developers, including several PHP-associated once like Rasmus Lerdorf, Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski.