This week's PHPBarnstormer has been posted, and has quite a bit of discussion about two major topics - OSCON and the mailing list flamewar all about one simple word: goto.

In the OSCON details, he mentions several of the PHP sessions including links to their information/slides. One of the most significant talks was Chris Shiflett's talk on PHP Security. This talk came with a 55 page workbook which is available for download. This workbook, in the author's words, represents what might be the "most complete source of PHP security information and best practices available".

In "an exercise in working with the Zend engine" Sara Golemon implemented the goto operator in PHP and posted it here for the world to see. Sara's implementation of goto is different fromthose we see in other languages, as it can only be used within a function. This simple posting started a huge thread on the PHP mailing list, but no firm conclusion has been made yet on whether this is a good idea or not.

Also mentioned in this week's edition are a few PEAR/PECL releases (Net_NNTP-0.11.1, xmlreader-1.0, pdflib-2.0.2) as well as a detiled look at the Mail PEAR Package.