New from PHP Magazine today is their latest PHPBarnstormer from Aaron Wormus.

This edition (issue #31) talks about the upcoming International PHP Conference, the numerous security topics that have been coming up lately (including the 7 Steps and phishing), as well as session riding and a XSS cheat sheat.

PEAR and PECL packages highlighed this last week include: HTTP_Download-1.0.0RC5 (beta), Cache_Lite-1.4.0 (stable), XML_RPC-1.2.0RC6 (beta), maxdb-1.0 (stable), and colorer-0.1 (alpha).