We have two new things from the folks over at Zend this morning - the first one is a new tutorial they have posted. It talks about using the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in PHP to do your regular expression matching. These are only slightly different from the other kind that PHP uses, but a lot of people out there that worked with perl heavily before might find these easier to use. They use the preg_* functions instead of the ereg_* ones. the article gives you some sample regexps to mess with, but not a real great overview of what all the different "special" characters can be used for...

Secondly, also on Zend's page, there's another article that details the implementation of Java classes through PHP by walking you through the fundamental configuration steps needed to get Java running through PHP. This article does show you everything that you need to know to get it set up, working, and even the required sample code to get you started on your path to PHP/Java integration. Nothing amazing here, just a good solid outline of how to get this feature of PHP compiled in and working - I'm not even sure how many people are using the Java extensions right now, I've never even looked at them before...

The folks over at PurpleRain.org have posted a challenge to all of you budding cryptographers out there that just happen to love PHP too - This page details a contest for a free domain name for the best "PHPsecurity algorithm" entry into their contest. The contest ends on May 20th, so you better get crackin' if you want to get an entry. The same page includes all the requirements and features the class must have...(thanks to ZaireWeb for pointing this one out to me)

Well, it's good to see things getting back to normal over at the NewbieNetwork - today marks the return of their Weekly Newsletter that so many subscribed to before. It's been a while, but it's back and better than ever. I'm not sure if it's going to be the same format as before, but I know it'll be good...so, what are you waiting for?? Go subscribe!