In the two summaries from Zend this week, there's a lot of disussion going on, including details on new packages proposed and several new functions to extend PHP's already powerful functionality.

In this week's PHP Weekly Summary, the focus is on the discussions of last week. This includes talk about a new object_array function that would allow similar to call_user_func_array, but would allow objects and 'variable constructor parameters'. Another item was a note about incosistent errors when pushing array values into a string ($a = "a string"; $a['foo']['bar'] = 42), which could be confusing to some users.

Moving over to this week's PEAR/PECL summary, several packages were proposed, including: PEAR::PHP_Compat_Func (a backwards-compatibility package for older versions needing newer functionality), File_PDF (built around the FPDF library as a PHP-only way to create PDF files without the need for an external library). Only two votes were given to packages this past week: VersionControl_SVN and XML_FastCreate. There was also a rather extensive talk this week about instituting a "one class per file" rule to help with PEAR organization and code quality.