PHPEverywhere has a new post this morning about a load balancer for PHP called the 452 PHP Load Balancer. It's requires PHP4 to use, so be sure you have a current copy (for those out there still using PHP3 - you know who you are). It works by monitoring the traffic on a site and redirecting the clients to mirror sites when the load gets high. It seems pretty cool, I just wish I had a way to test it and let you guys know if it's any good.

Zend has a new tutorial posted this morning that is part one in a two part series about making a dynamic survey system with MySQL ("survey" here being those polls and the like that you see all over websites). They show you how to make a nice, simple poll layout and populate it with the questions that you want, complete with different types of questions (yes/no, drop down lists, multiple options, etc). This looks like it would also serve double duty as a pretty good intro to MySQL too. They go over some of the basic PHP->MySQL functions and give you a good idea of how to use them.

Wow, I don't know how many people are looking for this...I've gotten asked questions about it so many times. Well, here it is - Evolt has a nice little PHP4 login script that you can steal....er use for your site. It uses sessions (the right way, in my opinion) to keep the user logged in. They even give you a little "log out" piece of script so you're not left high and dry when that time comes. Enjoy!