Wes Mason has started up another project to provide you with a weekly dose of curated PHP content direct to your mailbox - the PHP Weekly Newsletter:

[The newsletter is a] curated weekly injection of hot PHP links for your inbox, including the latest articles of interest, videos from talks and tutorials, new projects and of course the latest news in PHP language and platform development. I promise to try to keep links fresh, comments relevant and the hate out of sight.

The first edition of the news letter will be coming out in about a week (on December 6th), so if you'd like to sign up, head over to the main site for the project and enter your address.

As they've done in years before, the folks at php|architect have set up a series of webcasts leading up to this year's tek11 confernece. This new series includes talks from:

• Josh Butts on Phactory for Unit Testing
• Nate Abele on the Lithium Framework
• Aaron Brazell on Pluggable Authorization in WordPress
• Matthew Weier O'Phinney on Git Over it

There's registration links for each webcast off of this page so take a look at the descriptions and sign up for those that interest you!

Doug Hill has decided to start a series on his blog that details some of the happenings in the PHP community for the past week, of which this is the first:

I spend way too much time reading blogs, surfing PHP and web development articles online. I resolve to cut back but things just sneak back into my reader somehow, and believe me dzone doesn't help. But I've came up with a way to justify all that time, I call it research.

He mentions things like the infamous CIO article, Zend's Jolt Award, comparing the Zend Framework versus PEAR and PHP releases, books and various other language-related tidbits.

Check out the post for more and keep an eye on Doug's blog for future weekly summaries.

Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:

• Phonetic
• TPLManager
• Export To Excel
• DHTML and CSS CAPTCHA
• Print Anything
• Pretty Latin
• A New PHP Form validation
• GV Pagination Class
• Event Logger
• Universal Feed Generator
• DbGraph
• Persistent Array
• Button Panel

Latest PECL Releases:

• SCA_SDO 1.2.4
• imagick 2.1.1
• pdflib 2.1.5

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Slashdot.org: Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP
• Developer Tutorials: Debugging PHP code using debug_backtrace
• Developer Tutorials: Rapid Application Development with CodeIgniter
• Developer Tutorials: Easy PDF Generation in PHP
• Andi Gutmans' Blog: Zend Framework to be part of Ubuntu!
• Zend Developer Zone: Zend Framework Traveling Roadshow Coming to SF PHP Meetup
• Maggie Nelson's Blog: php|architect: Database Design for PHP Programmers by Mac Newbold
• ProPHP Podcast: Newscast for Feuruary 29th, 2008
• Port 25 Blog: FastCGI and PHP Works with IIS6 Too
• Community News: PHP-GTK 2 Released

Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:

• PHP Tip Class
• Cache library
• GV RecordSet Class
• Backup database structure
• RSS_PHP
• packagex
• ExifSort
• Phonetic
• TPLManager

Latest PEAR Releases:

• Validate_IT 1.0.1
• Validate_IT 0.1.0
• Validate_IT 0.2.0
• File_PDF 0.3.2
• HTML_Template_Flexy 1.3.3
• Net_LDAP 1.1.0
• Services_Akismet 0.5.0
• Crypt_GPG 0.5.0

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Rob Allen's Blog: Simple Zend_Form Example
• Lars Strojny's Blog: New magic constant in PHP 5.3
• Andreas Gohr's Blog: Understanding PHP code better with Xdebug
• Zend Developer Zone: Microsoft to extend Windows eco-system!
• Community News: Services_Akismet PEAR Package Created
• ThisLab: Notes on Choosing a PHP Framework: A Quick Comparison of CodeIgniter and Kohana
• C7Y: php|tek 2008: 40% of seats sold
• Cal Evans' Blog: I called Zend_Json::encode(), so WTH are all my properties?
• Andrew Johnstone's Blog: Soap, XmlRpc and Rest with the Zend Framework
• Mike Willbanks' Blog: PHP Performance Series: Caching Techniques

Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:

• Simple ORM database mapping for PHP
• DG
• Calendar Frame
• ods-php
• libMail2008
• phpBB3 poster
• GV Conection Class
• DBSql Class
• GV Connection Class
• Ultimate Mysql table to Object wrapper
• Calc Hondt
• SMTP Client
• CSV Importer