Ivo Jansch has posted about the official release of his book hot from php|architect's presses, the Guide to Enterprise PHP Development.

It's true that it's one of the few books that's not about PHP code, but about the entire development life cycle. I owe a lot of thanks to Elizabeth Naramore and Marco Tabini of php|architect, for getting this book out. If you order the book, also check out its companion website. I will collect feedback on that site, and will regularly post errata or other updates.

Get more information (and grab yourself a copy) from the php|architect website - the print/PDF will cost about $30 CAD and the PDF only runs about $27 CAD.

Stefan Mischook points out in this new post on the KillerPHP blog about an article he has published in the latest edition of the Web Designer Magaizne covering the creation of a contact form in PHP (a beginner look at working with forms and sendmail).

You can find out more about the magazine and the other contents of the issue from their website.

As he (Aaron Wormus) mentions in this new blog posting, the PEAR book from Packt publsihing has officially been released.

This is a collaboration between Stoyan Stefanov, Stephan Schmidt, Carsten Lucke and me. The original book was conceived way back at IPC2k4 so it's been in the pipeline for a while now.

Aaron talks about the contents of the book too - the different aspects of programming with PEAR with a more "solution-based" perspective (versus just dumping all of the information in your lap and shoving you out the door). He's also created an unofficial community wiki for the book to give things like reviews, comments, and other book-related things a place to live.

Writing a programming-related book these days is no simple matter, especially when it's on a bit more complex topic like design patterns. Stephan Schmidt has come out the other side unscathed and is announcing the official release of his book from O'Reilly - "PHP Design Patterns".

After nearly a year of work, my first very own book has finally been published and arrived last weekend.

PHP Design Patterns is published by O'Reilly and introduces the reader to the world of patterns by providing practical examples.

One small note, though - the book is written in German, so English-only readers might not find this the book for them. If you want more information on the book, though, you can check out its website for full details and some code examples.

The folks over at php|architect have release another resource to help get you certified as a Zend Certified Engineer - the Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide.

php|architect's Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide, edited and produced by the publishers of php|architect, provides the most comprehensive and thorough preparation tool for developers who wish to take the exam.

This book provides complete coverage of every topic that is part of the exam, for more information, see the chapters & source code.

Chapters for the book cover topics like the PHP basics, Strings and Patterns, Object Oriented Programming, Security, and XML/Web Services. Check out this sample chapter to get a taste of what's inside.

Also, check out the blog entries on the book from the two authors - Ben Ramsey and Davey Shafik.

The Zend Developer Zone quickly points out that the latest eZ Systems newsletter has been released and it includes details on version 3.8.4, updated documentation, and a few other things.

This week's newsletter brings news about an updated distribution package for eZ publish 3.8.4, new documentation for eZ publish upgrades and new information about eZ platform development. The newsletter also includes the weekly forum watch and an update about the current bug fix status.

They cover the update to eZ publish, the "Upgrade" section in the documentation, new advancements concerning eZ platform, and some interesting discussions going on over in their forums.

Stephan Schmidt has posted a new note today about the upcoming publication of "Exploring PHP", a book he's been working on.

I have been working on this together with Frank, Christian, Sandro and Kore and the book features five articles on advanced PHP topics. All articles in the book have been written in German.

He specifically mentions a part he contributed - a look at event-driven development (for component applications). The book also talks about using various PEAR packages and SimpleTest. The planned release date is August 17th from Entwickler Press (published in German).

Stephan Schmidt has posted information today about a tutorial he'd previously written for the Zend website concerning his XML_Parser PEAR package he maintains, but never saw publication on Zend's site.

This tutorial was supposed to be published in the PEAR section of Zend's developer zone, as they planned on sponsoring PEAR developers that were willing to write tutorials for their packages. Sadly enough this tutorial has never been published, although Zend promised me to do so.

When cleaning up my hard disk yesterday, I stumbled across the tutorial and decided, that it would probably be better to publish it on my own website instead of waiting for Zend to finally put it online. So if you still are using PHP4 or prefer SAX-based parsing although PHP5 offers a decent DOM implementation, you can now find the XML_Parser tutorial on my website.

You can head directly over to the tutorial via this link to read up on this great package.

According to this new post on Daniel Krook's blog today, a Redbook that he coauthored with a group of fellow "IBMers" has been published today - Developing PHP Applications for IBM Data Servers.

The book had three goals; to demonstrate best practices for developing PHP applications with IBM database servers, to provide detailed instructions for administrators to set up all the required software, and to help users migrate from MySQL to DB2.

You can check out the online version of the book here as a PDF file. There's also some additional materials to suppliment it.

On Christian Wenz's blog today, there's an announcement about one of the latest books from Packt - Mastering Mambo which he was a co-author on.

When Tobias and I created the CMS book series for German publisher Hanser, we also wrote the first series title on Mambo/Joomla!. We afterwards sold the translation rights to Packt Publishing. They already had a Mambo book, but liked our material so they took the last two thirds of the book, translated it and thereby created "Mastering Mambo".

The book covers topics like creating custom layouts, builing multilingual sites, using a forum, using the Mambo extensions, and how to develop your own modules...