First off today - over on DevShed.com, there's a new article about getting started with PHP Fusebox. For those wondering, Fusebox is the most scalable and effective incarnation of a "web box" - style architecting approach. In other words, yet another "templating system" for you to use to generate pages without having to actually write them yourself. They give you page after page on setting it up and using the Fusebox software to create easy-to-maintain pages. Just what the world needs - another way to write PHP without having to actually write it....

From Builder.com today, there's a nice little intro to SQL article posted this morning. This one, as the name implies ("SQL basics I: Data queries"), is for those out there just starting in the SQL world. It's not a bad little intro piece, though. They give all the SQL necessary to be able to just get around and view/edit/delete the data in your tables, and even include the WHERE clause to get you started there. I'd recommend it to someone as maybe a "My Very First SQL" reference, but you'll quickly outgrow it.

And, last, but not least this morning - from Evolt.org comes a new article on Incoming Mail and PHP. Now, I know that most out there are familiar with the mail() command for sending emails from your PHP scripts (you did know that, right?). Well, this is the other side of the coin - this article shows you how to make a script that will use Sendmail/Exim/Qmail to forward the incoming email to a PHP script of your choosing. To get the info in, they just have the PHP script read from "php://stdin" and fopen that into a string, then parse it from there. Once you get that, then you can do what you will with it. It's a pretty cool idea really - and could make mailing lists with auto-subscribe/unsubscribe much easier to accomplish.