New today from PHP Magazine is the latest issue of Aaron Wormus' PHPBarnstormer - Issue #30.

Issue #30 includes a comprehensive round up of news from the PHP, PEAR, and PECL world. This Issue carries news on PHP being awarded the the "Best Programming Language of 2004" by the Tiobe Programming Community Index, Zend's latest product called Zend Platform, discussions on whether PHP will support type hinting, how to "get the name of an extending class with static method call", creating PHP Binaries on Windows, and more. And, if you are in Belgium on February 27th, drop in at FOSDEM 2005 for PEAR talks. Read Issue #30.

Some of the PEAR/PECL packages listed for this week include: Net_Monitor-0.0.8 (beta), ML_RPC-1.2.0RC2 (beta), PHP_Beautifier-0.1.0 (beta), HTTP_Download-1.0.0RC3 (beta), and ssh2-0.5 (beta) .