On the Refulz.com blog there's a new post looking at some of the new features in CakePHP 2.0 including its use of lazy loading, the CakeEmail library and the new class loader.

With CakePHP 2.0, they have dropped support for PHP 4 and have refactored the library code to make it strictly complaint with PHP 5.2+. Modeled on Ruby on Rails (RoR), CakePHP is a tough competition to Zend framework, Symfony and CodeIgniter.

Besides the topics mentioned above, he also goes into the details of the new CakeRequest and CakeResponse models (to access information about teh current request/response). Summaries of all of the new functionality are provided along with some sample code where needed to illustrate.

CodeGear (Borland) have release an update to their Delphi for PHP toolset - Update 2 for Windows (21.8MB).

According to the International PHP Magazine site:

The second Delphi update for PHP includes improved documentation, updated VCL for PHP, and fixes. [...] Delphi for PHP Update 2 includes an updated version on the VCL for PHP, updated InterBase client library, improved documentation, and many bug fixes. Update 2 includes new component packages, if you have a previously installed version of Delphi for PHP, those packages won't be installed automatically and you may want to use them.

You can find out more about this software package from its page over on the CodeGear.com website including a link to download a trial.

Derick Rethans has a quick post today about the first release canididate for the latest version of the XDebug software - version two - and it's release.

In the past few months I've been working on various fixes (and feature additions) for Xdebug. Most notable are the much improved code coverage and the new stack trace layout. All these changes made it into Xdebug 2.0.0RC1 which I just released through PECL.

Derick notes that there are a few more bugs/build fixes to work out in the debugger client before it can be included in the build. You can find out more information about xDebug and grab this latest release over on the project's website.