Getting things going right for this week, Zend has this week's latest PHP Weekly Summary to recap this past week in the world of PHP.

Of course, one major happening was the release of PHP 4.3.4 RC1, in both source and Windows varieties. As with all the other 4.3.X releases since 0, 4.3.4 will not have any new features – it is only for bug fixes. Test this release if you would like to help the QA team.

Other than that major bit of news, most of the other happenings were smaller - bug fixes and new proposed items to be added to the PHP source. The suggestion for an array_merge_replace function has come up, and out allow you to overwrite any values in the source array that have a duplicate key in the merging array. Other items were a bug found in array_merge_recursive dealing with multi-dimensional arrays, and some improvements to the SAPI input filter allowing it to read and write variable names.