The latest edition of PHP Magazine's PHPBarnstormer has been posted (Issue #17).

This week, Aaron talks about the release(s) of the PHP updates - PHP 5.0.2 and 4.3.9, as well as links to some of the slides from the php|works conference up in Toronto. Some of the new releases this week (both PEAR and PECL) are: PHPUnit-1.0.2 (stable), HTML_Form-1.1.0RC3 (beta), Net_IMAP-1.0.3 (stable), and id3-0.2 (alpha).

The "Package in Focus" this week is the PEAR Calendar Package, specializing in generating calendars as data structures. Calendar is built on packages that represent Years, Months, Days, Hours, Minutes, and Seconds. The build() method from the Calendar_Year class will output Month objects, the Calendar_Month class will build() Calendar_Day objects and so forth. There is also a robust Decorator framework in place that allows you to attach functionality to existing Calendar objects.