For anyone keeping up with the PHP 5 Programming Contest that Zend hosted - the final results have been posted!

It really wasn't that easy to choose between the top applications; there are quite a few that ended up in the top 20 or so that could just have easily been in the top 6. Without your input, we'd still be arguing over them! [...] A special mention goes to MyObjects, a project that provides its own persistent object library and tools for generating classes directly from a MySQL database. [...] Another special mention goes to Hive, which came in 41st because nobody in the public domain voted for it. We disagreed - it ranked 3rd in the judges list [...]. Our judges and the public agreed over PRADO, which won outright. All we need to do now is get a laptop to Qiang Xue, the author of the winning application, and then we can sit around in the office drinking too much caffeine and playing hangman with a clear conscience.

Others that didn't get the top position will also be recieving prizes such as t-shirts, copies of the Zend Studio software, a year's subscription to php|architect, and whose application was approved will receive geek-friendly coupons worth over $100. Sounds to me like just about everyone should come out a winner in one way or another. Congrats to Qiang Xue, the author of PRADO, for ranking the highest...