Well, it's about time (pardon the pun) that soemone wrote a good article on the date and time functionality of PHP. DevShed has a new one this morning that talks about just that - Date/Time Processing with PHP (by the Disenchanted Developer, one of my favorites) dives into the wonderful world of date/time manipulation with PHP. Most people, I think, would agree that the date/time functionality in PHP is one of the better sets of code in a scripting language. They get into things like the getdate, microtime, date, and localtime/gettimeofday functions. They even wrap it up with a nice little calendar class for you to use (that helps you output nicely formatted, correct calendar layouts). Enjoy!

We have two new things from Evolt.org this morning - first off, while it's not really PHP, it is something that more and more web developers out there are having to deal with. The Wrong Way to Use CSS in Page Layouts talks briefly about some common problems with CSS that they've seen in several places - most come as a result of using a WYSIWYG editor ("but, it looked fine on my computer!"). They do give you a place to check and a bit of code for this offense, but it doesn't cover too much - it's pretty general.
Second from Evolt, we have something every single one of you out there with a shopping cart on your site needs to read - Top five frustrations experienced by Web shoppers. What's number one? No big surprise here - popups (duh). They go on to talk about some of the other things that spoil the experience for the online shopper, such as complicated pages, slow load times and overall site layout (ease of use). There's such a fine line between ease of use and making a site look nice these days - it's tough to get it right the first shot.

Last, but not least, there's something big coming up - I'm not going to reveal it yet, but keep your eyes pealed around here for something new coming. Several of us webmasters are working on something we hope will help the PHP community as a whole...more later!