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Yes, I read the Zend Newsletter because usually I find something new in it. This issue was no disappointment as they featured some videos put together by Appcelerator, a sponsor at ZendCon 08. They interviewed attendees in a series of 4 topics: Developers LOVE PHP, PHP Developer Gripes, Developers HATE PHP, and The Best PHP Applications.

Today I ran some quick tests with PHP APC using Apache's ab benchmarking tool. The goal was to see how much of a performance gain I could see between PHP APC disabled, then enabled.

Namespacing has been long awaited to enhance PHP OO development, and it looks like it's finally here. At first, I thought it was going to become available in PHP6, but it has been ported to PHP 5.3.

What is a Namespace?

Namespacing provides you the freedom to name your classes what you want without worrying about any other classes, native to PHP or otherwise, interfering with your names.

PHP5 added a very subtle yet very handy feature in the foreach Control Structure. It is the ability to access the value in the iteration as a reference to the original array.

The best way to demonstrate this is to establish an objective.

Objective: Write a function to capitalize all elements of an array.

This article will show you how to order a server-side list of fruit from a database using drag and drop behavior and then save them back to the database in order.

I recently worked on a project which required an unordered list to be re-ordered and then saved. I wasn't about to make users enter numbers next to each item so I looked toward JQuery's UI library.

Objective: We will display a list of fruit. The user can then drag the fruit and click a button to save the new order in the database.