New for this week from Zend is their latest < a href="http://www.zend.com/zend/week/week174.php">PHP Weekly Summary for February 23, 2004.

In this week's summary they cover the week's past happenings: the changes that the Zend API has made in the PHP 5 beta 4 (including the fact that extensions should now have access to the new destruct/storage free mechanism in the Zend Engine.

Also new this past week, was talk of updating the fink extension to correctly work on the Mac OS X operating system, errors building PHP without XML on a Windows system, and a few more changes to PHP 5.

The changes suggested included some updates to the ext/tidy function naming scheme (is_xxx versus isXxx), and a "battle" between two sides on the issue of static methods in PHP classes, and how they should or could be called...