For those of you that don't get the PHP Weekly Newsletter from the NewbieNetwork, there's a new tutorial posted this morning about Five Little PHP Tricks to Programming Bliss. Bascially, it's five things that you can do in your scripts to make your life easier - things like var_dump/print_r, designing before your fingers hit the keyboard, and using the libraries you already have to get things done faster. Be sure to check this one out and subscribe to the newsletter if you haven't yet!

Also, there's a new note that everyone's favorite WYSIWYG editor (*cough* no jokes) Dreamweaver, now has PHP support built into it with included server code libraries. Now, there's two sides to this - one is that, yes, it helps PHP get more out there to the masses, showing them what a wonderful, powerful language it can be, but then there's the other side. This side is the side of PHP coders everywhere that are afraid that things like this will turn PHP more towards the world of FrontPage, where people know how to make a quick little webpage with neat PHP features, but they don't know how to really make the pages. It's a toss up really - PHP does have a life of it's own, and is doing pretty well with exposure so far, but something like this could really bring it to the masses.