So you've seen all of the pictures of the elePHPants floating around and want to get your hands on one of your very own? Good news! Damien Seguy and crew have another fresh batch of huggable blue PHPness on the way and you can place your order now:

If you have missed the boat of the first generation of elePHPants, now is the right time to catchup up and participate to the 2008 generation! As for the first generation, this project is open to every PHP User group and aficionados, that want to adopt elePHPants, small or big.

Pricing is 4 Euros per elephant (in a 50 count box only) or 50 Euro for one of the larger elephants. They're even open to having company logos ("your own brood") added to the other side of his back. You can find more details on getting your hands on one at this page on the Nexen.net website or just head right to the order form to get a little blue PHPer to call your own.

With another entry into the "PHP frameworks" category comes CodeIgniter, an "Open Source Web Application Framework that makes writing kick-ass PHP programs simple as apple pie".

Designed to enable, not overwhelm, Code Igniter is a powerful PHP/MySQL framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.

If you're a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you're tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks that require rocket science to understand, Code Igniter might just be the right tool for you.

They've released a beta (version 1.0) for public consumption, and it looks like it has promise. It has simplicity at its core, and makes it simple to build up useful apps quickly. Be sure to check out the videos of it in action...