php[architect] magazine has released their latest issue today - the November 2014 edition: "Environments".

In this month’s issue, we take a look at the environments that PHP code may travel through.

Articles in this month's issue include:

• "PHP Engine Explained: an Introduction to the Zend Virtual Machine" (Julien Pauli)
• "In the Shoes of a Hacker. Creating a Cryptovirus for PHP Apps" (Raul Fraile)
• "Education Station: PHP on Firefox OS" (Matthew Setter)
• "Introduction to Building a Programming Language" (Jacob Mather)

There's also all of the columns you know and enjoy covering Laravel Tips, the latest in the PHP community and a retrospective of the php[world] conference. You can pick up either just this issue or a full subscription from the php[architect] website.

Juozas Kaziukenas has posted a review of the recently released Zend Server beta talking about some of the features it offers.

I haven’t tried it - probably it will be commercial solution (Zend Studio == Zend Platform?) and I’m not looking for one right one. So I jumped over to Zend Server CE (Community Edition) [...] Main differences lie deep inside PHP configuration - not-community version is much more tweaked for performance and production servers, where community edition is for development environments.

He talks about the install process, the interface and what it offers and some of his personal thoughts on the software.