The ladies over on PHPWomen.org have opened up a new area in their forums - a place to discuss best practices in PHP.

Just a quick note that the Best Practices forum is now open and already has a couple of fast and easy articles in it for your viewing pleasure. For any aspiring writers - there is also a list of future articles if you want to try your hand at it.

There's already a few articles posted including ones discussing PHPDocumentor, spaghetti code, and variable abuse.

PHP Magazine has posted their latest weekly roundup for all things happening in the PHP community. This roundup covers June 12th through June 16th.

Some of the topics touched on this week include:

• the "Five Best Next Generation PHP Frameworks" article
• "The Evolution of PHP on the Internet" - Nexen.net's latest stats
• comparing mod_php and FastCGI
• the announcement of "Baking Day" from the CakePHP group
• and several of the new PEAR/PECL/Zend Framework updates from the week

Of course, this list only touches briefly on all of the happenings this week, so check out the full list on their site.

In this blog entry Sebastian Bergmann notes a sudden surge of interest from the academi ccommunity about PHP.

So far, he's already gathered a few - two from Pxy, one from Stanford, and another from the Secure Systems Lab (at the Technical University of Vienna).