The April issue is out and it's all about Security! We cover the gambit of topics including two-factor authentication, password hashing and securing file uploads. All our regular columns also appear, making this a jam-packed magazine full of PHP goodness.

Articles in this month's edition include:

• Securing File Uploads - Chris Tankersley
• Best Practices for Password Hashing in PHP - John Congdon
• Security-driven Development - Beth Tucker-Long
• When a Password Isn't Enough: Two-factor Authentication and You - Chris Stone

Check out the php|architect site for more info on picking up your own copy.

• Building APIs in Zend Framework 2 (Chris Tankersley)
• Good API Design Is Not a Fairy Tale (Keith Casey)
• API Documentation and Testing with I/O Docs (Jason McCreary)
• Education Station: Fix Poorly Written Legacy Code with PHP-CS-Fixer (Matthew Setter)
• (Re)Introducing Magento: Configuration XML (Ben Marks)

You can pick up this single issue for about $5 USD or you can subscribe for a full 12 issues (PDF edition).

• "Running a PHP User Group" (John Congdon)
• "I'm the Organizer, Now What?" (Chris Stone)
• "Hackathons: Five Steps to Awesome Sauce" (Matthew Davis)
• "The Case For Open Source Software Contribution" (Andrew Podner)
• "Bug Zapper: ZendFormForm a New Friend?" (Bart McLeod)

You can order a single issue for about $5 USD or you can get a full year's subscription for just $35 USD. To check out some of the back issues, take a look in their archives.

• "Coding Conventions" from Andrew Podner
• "Properly Documenting Your Code" by Chris Tankersley
• "Testing in PHP" by Jeff Carouth
• "Education Station: Markup? Markdown!" by Matthew Setter
• "Shop Talk: (Re)Introducing Magento" from Ben Marks

You can pick up the single issue for about $5 USD or you can get a 1 year subscription to get this and more great issues - Basic is $35 USD and Premium is $65 USD.

If you were having a sky-diving on planet Mars since the past months, or if you were too enthusiastic in getting lost within The Hobbit's World - wake up Sid! There's news concerning PHP Land! On "its" 10th birthday, last December 2012, your "PHP Magazine for PHP Professionals" (The one & only PHP|Architect) announced on its portal that it's brand, owned by BlueParabola, is being 'safely & soundly' handed over to The PHP Musketeers aka Musketeers.me for a smooth and more dynamic life.

In the interview they talk about things like:

• The motivation behind the acquisition
• Positives and negatives of the brand as they see them
• Future plans for the magazine and brand
• What they see as the overall goals for php|architect
• What kind of challenges they see in the road ahead

You can read the full interview here and find out more about this change on the php|architect site.

• Introducing PHP to the Hubble Space Telescope Program - Eli White
• 30 Stupid (But Useful) PHP Tricks and Tips - Elizabeth Smith
• Getting Organized: Namespaces for PHP Applications - Andrew Podner
• Performance: PHP Isn't All You Need For Fast Web Apps - Matthew Setter
• Bug Zapper: A New Adventure - Bart McLeod

You can pick up you copy (or subscribe) on the php|architect site.

Over the course of the last ten years, our focus has always been education-not just of our readers and customers, but also our own. We taught ourselves about publishing, organizing events, training, and dealing with people from all walks of life. Many of the things we learned were fun, and some not so much; all were very interesting. Most of all, we have learned to rely on the PHP community, which we watched grow and evolve alongside our favourite language.

[...] Thus, as the end of our first decade in business approaches and we have decided that we must move on, it's important for us to know that php|architect will remain in good hands. We are happy to announce that, effective January 1st, Musketeers.me LLC will take over the php|architect brand and all activities associated with it, including our magazine, books, training, and events.

You can find some more personal reflections from other members of the php|architect staff on their own blogs - Marco Tabini and Beth Tucker Long - and the official mention on the Musketeers.me blog.

• #Trending: What's hot and what's not in the PHP and web dev community at the moment
• An interview with Zeev Suraski
• A Look Ahead to ZendCon 2012
• "5 Reasons To Maximize Your Use Of PHP's Built-In Feature"
• Stefan Priebsch On Soccer.

As always, you can download the issue for free to get the PDF version or you can download the iPad application and get the latest issues there.

• An interview with Razi Sharir, CEO of Xeround, on DBaaS
• A preview of IPC Spring 2012
• Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc) on hotels
• 'An Overview Of PHP QA Tools' by Luis Oblonczyk (Softnex)
• 'An Introduction To Traits' by Michael Stowe (CaringBridge)

You can download this issue free (registration required) as a PDF. Additionally, if you'd like to see the first two issues, you can check out their archives to download those as well.

• An interview with Colin Hayhurst, co-founder of StackBlaze, on running a PHP startup
• A preview of PHP Summit 2012 UK
• Stefan Priebsch (thePHP.cc) on how to see the bigger picture (application architecture)
• 'PaaS: The Cloud On-Ramp For PHP Developers' (by Lucas Carlson of AppFog)
• 'Cryptography In PHP' (by Enrico Zimuel of Zend)

Once again, you can download this issue for free to enjoy!