PHP Magazine has posted their latest edition of PHPBarnstormer - Issue #38

"Databases and portability have been hot topics on the blog circuit this week", reports Issue #38 of your favorite PHPBarnstormer. Also read about the Good vs. Evil discussion that has ensued on __autoload, the blossoming of PHP's "official" support for PostgreSQL from "out of the stone age", an interesting thread on PHP extension naming, and lots more. From the PEAR world, PEAR 1.4.0 allows installing packages via FTP from the comfort of your local shell. There has also been an interesting thread about why only 25 developers (out of 576) have voted more than 10 times on PEPr proposals. At PECL, the package.xml 2.0 format is now documented in the PEAR manual. Read PHPBarnstormer Issue #38.

Some of the PEAR and PECL packages included this week are: PEAR-1.4.0a8 (alpha), HTML_Form-1.2.0 (stable), Crypt_Blowfish-0.8.1 (beta), and crack-0.2 (stable).