John Mertic has put together a what's new list in the upcoming PHP 5.3 release:

PHP V5.3 is set to be released by the end of 2008, and many of the new features in this release have been in the planning stages for a few years. Originally touted as "PHP V6 without native Unicode support," PHP V5.3 has been developed into a feature-rich upgrade to the PHP V5 line. [...] In this "What's new in PHP V5.3" series, we'll look at these new V5.3 features, and see how they are used and how they can be used in your Web application.

In this first part of the series he talks about:

• Improved static method and member handling
• The _callStatic() magic method
• Dynamic static calls
• Late static binding
• Standard PHP Library
• Circular garbage collection

Cal Evans has pointed out just some of the recent tutorials and articles that have popped up about the Zend Framework in a recent Zend Developer Zone post:

If you are working with Zend Framework, there's no need to struggle with any concept, chances are good that there is help on-line you can tap. Here are two resources that have recently come on-line. I'm sure there are more.

There's two in his list this time - a look at what's new in version 1.5 of the framework and the PHP Everyday site providing fresh PHP-related content each day.