On LinuxJournal today, there's a new article from Marco Tabini about the power of PHP as a multi-purpose language (and not just for web pages anymore).

If PHP is your scripting language of choice when it comes to developing dynamic Web sites, you probably have grown to love its immediacy and power. An estimated ten million Web sites use at least some PHP scripting to generate their pages.

Some of the topics covered include:

• PHP-CLI
• Parsing an RSS Feed
• Running PHP Scripts through Cron

Many people that are just discovering PHP are noticing more than just the web side. PHP is becoming more of the language of choice for web developers looking to do server-side tasks...