In a post from Sandro Zic about his upcoming session at the International PHP Conference in Frankfurt - "With the advent of PHP 5 and the push to the enterprise market, professional build and installation environments for PHP applications become more and more important. My session at this year's International PHP Conference discusses pros and cons of such a build system and compares existing solutions like PEAR Installer, Phing, ZZ/OSS Installer. Furthermore, I will take a look at the Java world and identify missing tools that would be nice to have in the PHP world.