The php|architect guys have released the latest episode of their P3 podcast - the newscast for April 17th, 2008:

It truly seems we are cursed. Paul recorded this podcast at OpenWeb Vancouver, and even though he used the new iPod setup (to avoid the aforementioned USB/OSX10.5.2 problems), we still somehow managed to lose small chunks of the audio. *sigh*

Topics mentioned in this show include:

• inclued
• nowdoc
• traits
• and the PHP participation in the Google Summer of Code

Two ways to grab this new episode - directly (just the mp3) or subscribe to their feed and get this and other great (past and future) episodes.

Piggybacking on a recent proposal for traits in PHP, Lukas Smith has suggested something that could help make the organization of these sorts of contributions (and their "staying power") a bit more likely to happen - an official PHP.net wiki of sorts.

As such I really like what Stefan has done with his Traits proposal. Very nicely done. [...] Right now the RFC documents are hidden away in the unwieldy mailinglist archive and Stefan's private homepage, which could disappear any day. Of course there are also the various web archives, but what would be nice to have is a PHP.net wiki.

He notes that not only would this help protect information like this from dropping off the face of the web but it might also pave the way for some other changes to be made to the language (and to provide a space where everyone can share their ideas). He specifically mentions his wants for an array_merge_replace and a change to file_exists.