The guys over at PHPEverywhere have done another one of their Popularity Tests on how much PHP is being used. I'm sure most of you out there have heard of the Netcraft Results that are done pretty much monthly on how many servers are running PHP - well, the PHPEverywhere guys don't think that's a good enough estimate (neither do I), so they use the Altavista search engine to look at the extensions on files, and, using the most common PHP extensions - PHP has made an impressive showing since they last did these numbers. It's not the largest one out there (ASP), but it is gaining... More and more people are seeing PHP for what it is - a powerful, graceful, useful and, above all, cheap way to do anything they can think of that those "other guys" can do...

The folks over at Zend have the latest PHP Weekly Summary posted this morning. There's nothing overly improtant in here - some interesting mentions about the reworking of the sockets extension, using Cygwin with PHP, and, of course, the little "PHP baby" that was brought into the world this past week.

Lastly today, there's a new article posted over on DevArticles about using PHP-GTK to make "Cross Platform GUI Apps". In this one, they give you a nice little intro and a guide of how to install everything (on linux), as well as making a simple little app with several different features. He gets into some of the neat things that PHP-GTK can do (besides just "hello world") - things like the database extension and a listing of some of the PHP-GTK widgets that are out there for you to use. For those out there looking for a good place to start with PHP-GTK, I'd recommend this article as a nice starting place. Enjoy!