Richard Heyes has made some updates to his PEAR::DB replacement class today, including:

• Added numCols() function to the DB_result object
• Added seek() method to the DB_result object
• Enabled you to specify the fetchmode for getRow() and getAll()
• Made the test script easier to navigate
• Added reset() method to the DB_result object

You can find out more about the project here or just download this new version and check out the documentation to get you started.

In a new post Richard Heyes links to a replacement for the popular PEAR::DB package:

PEAR::DB is all well and good if you want to connect to multiple databases (I assume, I've never actually used it with anything other than mysql) but it is somewhat hefty on the bad side of 60k. Not a good thing if you're not using some sort of accelerator and have a high traffic site. Here's a class which replicates the PEAR::DB API (the bits that I use anyhoo) and weighs in at a much nicer ~11k. Sweet.

The class is posted for download here as a simple PHP source file with functions and values named similar to those in the PEAR::DB package.

In this post on ArtyPapers.com today, there's information about a new tool that allows the creation of PHP & CSS dynamic text replacement - P+C DTR.

PHP + CSS Dynamic Text Replacement is a JavaScript-free version of the Dynamic Text Replacement method originally created by Stewart Rosenberger.

P+C DTR allows you to take a vanilla standards-based (X)HTML web page and dynamically create images to replace and enhance page headings using only PHP + CSS. Sick of using the same three fonts? Tired of editing heading images in PhotoShop? If so, P+C DTR might be for you.

This is a definite must see if you do a lot of web work with something more creative than simple text. This tool allows you to create some very nice text in a short amount of time. And, because it's based on simple, open standards, its use is simple too...