First off this morning, we have the latest Zend PHP Weekly Suammary posted over on Zend.com. Some of the details from this one are a discussion of PHP 4.2.1 RC1, a mention of PHP 4.3.0, and a neat idea about a "ISP HowTo" for ISPs running PHP. It would give them all the details on running it safely and correctly so that they limit the security risks to all of their hosted users. Also, something that will make the Mac users out there happy (woo!) - PHP 4.3.0 will, more than likely, push for "official MacOSX support".

As a follow-up to their first "simple SQL" article - DevArticles has part two in their series: SQL In Simple English Part 2/2. This part gets into some more detailed ideas than the first one did, including joins and subqueries (not supported by everyone yet, unfortunately). If you haven't read something like these articles, you really should. I see too many scripts that come across my desk that would be so much simpler if they just knew exactly how to bend SQL to their will and get only the info that they need from each table. So, catch up with this article and check out the first part too...

One thing that I do find annoying (and apparently this author does too) are those sites that disable the right click on their pages. Sure, it's an easy way to keep people from getting to the code of the page, but really - it's not hard to get around. In this article from SitePoint, the author talks about some better, "more professional" ways to achieve the same kind of thing. Personally, I think it's a silly idea - why even put something on the internet if you don't want people to view it?