Also new this week is the latest PHP Weekly Summary from Zend, covering the big happenings of this last week in the PHP community.

In this week's edition, they cover a few larger things like the mention of SimpleXML (a standard, easy-to-use interface suggested to make PHP and XML that much easier to work with). Along these lines, the "big story" of the past week was the move from expat to libxml2 for the parser that is included in PHP. They are currently working to integrate it, and work out some issues dealing with bundling, compatibility, and speed concerns.

There are also some smaller issues mentioned, like the stdio patch being worked on, and the suggestion of replacing error messages in some instances with exceptions instead (making it cleaner in the end).