Newly posted over on PHP Magazine's website is this week's latest PHPBarnstormer - Issue #11

Several new releases happened this week, not only with PEAR and PECL packages (such as enchant-1.0, HTTP_Upload-0.9.0, and Services_Amazon-0.1.0) but also in the PHP language area. Both PHP 5.0.1 and PHP 4.3.9RC1 were posted this week, as well as the latest update for PHP's favorite graphics libraries - PHP-GTK 1.0.1. (PHP-GTK2 is also mentioned, but only a wiki is set up for it).

The package featured this week is the Validate PEAR class, providing validation classes for various formats of strings and numbers. It can help you ensure that form entries or other variables are in the correct format or are of the correct type. It's also nice because it's light and cleanly coded so make the best use of memory and processor time, even for those lengthly validations.