Matthew Turland has a few things to say about web scraping (and recent articles covering it) on his blog today as an author of a previous article published in php|architect covering the same topic:

A friend of mine who shall remain nameless pointed a post out to me on the PHP DZone web site recently. Noting that the article's content was misinformed at best and downright ignorant at worst, even when examining it sheerly from the author's knowledge of PHP as a language, this friend asked that I set the author straight.

He mentions his comments on the post correcting the author on some points as well as a more "clued in" post on the xml.lt website talking about using PHP's DOM functionality instead.

Tony Bibbs has posted a handy howto guide on publishing your application via a PEAR channel:

I have produced a HOWTO for both our system administrators and our developers. I've condensed this down to be a bit more generic and useful to anybody looking to establish their own PEAR Channel for the same purpose. My example hereon is that your channel is at pear.example.com.

Come along on the journey of a developer making their very first PEAR package and deploying it to a PEAR channel using a real-word example. Seasoned PHP developers be packaging and deploying PEAR compatible packages in no time.

He walks you through how to install the PEAR package creator, package up your application into a PEAR package, and how to make it available anyone and everyone that wants to give it a shot (including the PEAR commands they'll need to get it).