I did an email interview with the folks at PHP Magazin; their German version is here. What follows is our original email exchange in English.

They talked about some of the core principles behind the framework, its origins from the Solar framework, the team's "libraries first, framework second" methods and its push to be a PHP 5.4-focused framework. There's also a bit that compares the framework to two other popular options - Zend Framework and Symfony.

It is not usually my custom to comment negatively or nitpick on other people's articles in magazines, especially not in magazines I have written for. This time however, I really must raise my voice to point out a couple of (well, actually a lot of) issues in an article about SQL injection in the current (October/November) issue of the german "PHP Magazin".

He points out a few problems (like the fact that there's no multi-selects in PHP's mysql support) and things that it would require special permissions (like root) to run on a system.

Good source doesn't always speak for itself because the better product does not always establish itself without help. Why is that? This article gives some answers as to how a PHP-based product can be presented well in the market with the right marketing and community as a PHP based product well in the market can be placed through appropriate marketing and communication palatable to potential customers.

You can get your copy of this latest issue (German only) from the PHP Magazin website (with a cover story looking at the DojoX framework).

With the beginning of issue 1.08 (coming to the newsstands in November 2007), PHP Magazin won't accept any articles or source codes that cover PHP4 topics or PHP4 sourcecode. Sourcecode delivery must cover PHP 5.2 or greater.

You can find out more information about submitting to this German publication on their website (including several topic suggestions to help get you started).

PHP has grown from a niche language where one could only originally add a bit of dynamic functionality to a page to a powerful tool, which is being used more and more in the development of business-critical applications. This enterprise level of business logic has to work correctly all of the time, so how do you guarantee it will? Through testing, of course.

Sebastian covers some of the contents of the article, including what unit testing is, how to write some sample tests, and brief looks at things like code coverage, mock objects, and PHPUnit's integration with Selenium RC.

In his editorial for the 5 Year Anniversary Edition of the German PHP Magazin Björn Schotte posted a link to Kristian Köhntopp's wrapup of the world's first PHP conference which was held in October 2000 in Cologne, Germany.

The wrapup is of the PHP Congres Cologne that happened back at the beginning October of 2000. Topics disussed were PHPDocumentor, OpenTracker, using MySQL with PHP, web security, and much more. Check out the full posting for all of the details and a bit of a look back in PHP's history.

You can also check out some of Björn's comments about the article over on the ThinkPHP Blog.