Two new items this week from Zend.com this morning - a new PHP weekly summary, and a new tutorial on how not to use a templating system.

First off, the latest PHP Weekly summary talks about the events of this past week, including the release of RC4, a suggestion to rename some of the stream functions, as well as some advancements in the speed of PHP5. Also mentioned is the debate about removing the current fd/stdio functionality, and adding the patch to use the new methods.

The other article, How Not To Use A Template System, talks about how, despite the masses of templating systems for PHP out there today, the best one of them all is PHP itself. He details reasons to just use PHP instead of trying to conform to one of the other systems out there, and how to use PHP effectively to make a good, solid templated site that's easy for even the designers to update...