DevShed.com has their latest in the "PHP Application Development" series posted today - Part 2: a focus more on data storage, system configuration, error handling, logging, and various other topics.

In this article, we continue with the basics of PHP applications by discussing application configuration, data storage, logging and error handling. We will cover some of the basic considerations when approaching these issues and evaluate our options in regard to implementation, efficiency and maintainability.

They dive right in, helping you understand the options for storing dynamic data from your scripts. Everything from flat text files to relational database systems are mentioned here. From there, error handling (a very hot topic in the PHP community right now) is discussed with special emphasis on creating custom error handlers for your script. They round it all off with event logging, something that might seem rather inconsequential at the time you're writing the pages, but just might save your job later on in life...