Now that their site is back up and working this morning, the latest PHP Weekly Summary from Zend is posted and ready to read.

This week's summary includes several new items proposed for the PHP source including the change of the rmdir() and mkdir() functions to use the new streams API, and the note that ext/tidy is enabled by default in PHP 5. One of the nice advantages of the move from the old method to the streams (for rmdir/mkdir) is the fact that with this new setup, you can even use the commands on an FTP connection.

Other items mentioned come from the PHP mailing lists and are talk about possible new features and functions. The items talked about include: talk about changing fgetscvs() to please either the "speed" party or the "multibyte" party, also, there's the mention of a magic "__toString()" method that would change an object into a string right before use.

There's lots more information where this came from, so check it out...