On NetTuts.com today there's a new tutorial that wants to help you simplify your form handling in your PHP application with a few advanced tips.

Save time, reduce maintenance pains, simplify your code, and do it all while feeling like a freakin' genius! In this tutorial, learn how to use variable variables, lookup arrays, and a bit of clever programming to simplify form handling in a big way.

They show how to use variable variables in some practical examples of filtering posted information and an alternative to creating multiple form handling scripts that all do (virtually) the same thing. They've created an alternative - a single script that uses a large switch to filter through each posted element.

On the RIA Development Center website, there's this recent post showing off the Expression Web 2 software and how PHP developers could use it in their coding work.

Some of the most important new features in Microsoft's recently released Expression Web 2 involve enhanced support for PHP. Don't think this is just a half hearted effort to appeal to the Open Source web development crowd. Expression Web 2 supports PHP developers with a carefully constructed, feature full treatment which you should seriously consider for your PHP applications.

These new features include a built-in development server with integrated browser support, include and design view integration, IntelliSense (code completion) and support for XHTML syntax and syntax highlighting.