php|arch September 2006 Edition Available

A special edition I find this month of PHP Architect magazine more dedicated to “PHP” itself with an excellent benchmark of speed between PHP4 and PHP5. The article explain the new features in PHP5 compared to PHP4 and how to make a speed performance tests between both versions, from theory to practice many changes and it’s difficult to make a conclusion even that Andi Gutmans and Dmitry Stogov finds that 5.1 is faster than 4.4, while you won’t see big difference in real applications. You have to read the article to understand what its talking about !

Another interesting article is about the State of the PEAR, Aaron Wormus takes a walk through the history of PEAR to see where it came from, and attempts to determine where it is going. Then Philip Olson is talking about the best manual on the web, which is the PHP Manual. You can also learn how to make a PHP search engine using PDO and PHP5. The security corner this month by Ilia Alshanetsky is about securing your PHP.ini file with a review of the different security settings and the consideration of their consequences and benefits.