The October edition of the php|architect magazine has been released. Articles in this latest issue include:

• The cover story talking about optimizing your code into C++
• an introduction to mod_rewrite
• creating a custom XML parser to replace SimpleXML and its quirks
• Building Vertical Market Applications with SugarCRM
• the Security Corner column talking about file inclusion

You can order this issue by itself (for about $5 USD) or you can subscribe to the magazine for only $40 USD for an entire year's worth of great PHP-related content.