This Issue of your favorite PHPBarnstormer has all the exciting news from the PHP world, important discussions from mailing lists, and a quick look at new PEAR and PECL releases. The package in focus this week is HTML_Quickform (Part I) - you can also read about flexing some PEAR muscle with HTML_QuickForm and DB, in the upcoming Issue 05.2004 of the PHP Magazine (International Edition). Read PHPBarnstormer Issue #6.

Aaron talks about some of the issues that were noted on the mailing list prior to the release of PHP 5, including syntax discussions and its exception-based error handling sytems.

Several new PEAR releases were made this past week, and they varried from the HTML_Progress-1.2.0RC3 package to the Games_Chess-0.8.1 package. The spotlight this week is on the HTML_Quickform package, providing a quick overview of how an object can be created to contain a form and its elements.