PHP Magazine has released their latest PHPBarnstomer - Issue #42 today.

In the latest Issue of PHPBarnstormer (released last Friday), read about our preps for the upcoming International PHP Conference in Amsterdam and why you should bookmark the conference blog. In news from the PHP Mailing list, read about the proposal for a "risk your life" version of PHP, addition of the getDocComment() method in the Reflection API, new additions to PHP's session handling, and more.

From the PEAR mailing list, read about the best way to handle dependency on packages that may become "unmaintained" in the future, discussions about Patterns in PHP, Proposals for the Networking::Net_SMPP and Networking::Net_SMPP_Client packages, and all the latest PEAR package releases. From the PECL world, read about Alan Knowles' new DBDO extension, the start of his work on a SVN extension, the latest PECL packages this week, and lots more. Read Issue #42.

Some of the PEAR and PECL packages mentioned this week include: Auth_HTTP-2.1.6 (stable), File_Passwd-1.1.4 (stable), Crypt_RSA-1.0.0RC6 (beta), DBDO-0.1.0 (alpha), and tvision-0.1 (alpha) .