DevShed does it again this morning with their latest article - PHP and Java. This one is a look at how to get PHP all connected up with Java and how to make them talk nicely to each other. You have to recompile to get Java support (but this is no surprise to those out there that have been around a bit), and you'd need to get a copy of the Sun Java JDK. They start you off with some basic code, just to make sure everything's working, and then move on to some more fun stuff, including passing Java objects around. They <A href="wrap it all up with a neat little temperature converter written with Java and PHP.
(Also, as a side note, they have a nice piece on XML Sockets in Flash new this morning too..)

Lo and behold, the great PHPBuilder.com has decided to grace us with a new article this morning...Their latest, PHP-HTML Templates: A New Working Relationship, talks about the use of PHP to make templating your site easier, mainly with templates parsed by an other script and outputed to the page. This really isn't that much different than just using include() to make your site more "templated", but I guess if you need the extra functionality, it's a nice way to do it...

From Builder.com, there's a link to a neat little book, XML Processing with Perl, Python, and PHP that (obviously) talks all about parsing XML with these three languages. It might be worth taking a look at - expeciall because they seem to have the whole thing there online (you have to register and have an account to view it, but still...). Anyway, just thought I'd share that one - one of the many PHP books that are out these days...