The latest PHPBarnstormer has been released by the folks over at PHP Magazine - Issue #48.

In Issue #48 of PHP Barnstormer, Aaron Wormus writes, "After a short work-induced break, the PHP Barnstormer is back, covering a lot of ground. Since we are doing a bit of catch up work, we will break from our regular format to cover fewer technical aspects but more news than normal." In this issue, read about discussions that followed the release of PHP 4.4 and the two beta releases of PHP 5.1, other interesting PHP development news, discussions from the PEAR and PECL world, and all the new packages out there.

Some of the PEAR/PECL packages posted in this week's edition include: PHPUnit2-2.3.0beta2 (beta), Text_CAPTCHA-0.1.3 (alpha), PHP_Beautifier-0.1.6 (beta), and pecl_http-0.9.0 (beta)...