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One of the best things in PHP5 is that almost everything regarding XML was rewritten; All XML extensions are now based on the libxml2 library, from Zend article:
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I came across two very nice, easy and simple to install and manage Forum scripts based for PHP/MySQL:
Vanilla
PunBB

Here is a nice example of customizing PunBB at the Mint forums:
http://www.haveamint.com/forum/

This is a cool tool that shows your Live PageRank for any page, fetching results from 73 unique data sources.
http://livepr.raketforskning.com/

Interesting:
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What da heck are you doing here?.. Go work or something…
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I’m looking for something that will treat each user with its own calendar. It’ll be nice finding something that has a system like that, built-in already. Well, I’ll decide on something in a month or so.
Here are a couple of open-source PHP calendar projects worth to metion:
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You save your bandwith and speed up your site by gzipping your javascript code library and even your CSS, yes!
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Found a great article at DevShed on “Date Arithmetic With MySQL“. The last few days we’ve been kind of puzzled about how to store and actually utilize dates, throwing them back and forth from PHP to MySQL. There seems to be a lack of documentation about MySQL date functions, I bet alot of people are doing alot of mistakes in this area.
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Logwatch is a great little proggie. I liked it very much when it used to work, it used to send me alerts about suspicious activity, and even one time saved my ass when some lowlife tried hacking through SSH. (Until I make some time figuring out what da hell is iptables) Anyways. It stopped running two weeks ago. Wanted to see what’s wrong, and here is how I got to the configuration file:
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IE6/Win has a specific problem with “image flickering”, observe please:
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ADOdb is what really saved my life when moving from Classic ASP to PHP5, it supports a wide variety of database, and has some great functionality features. It supports PHP5 aswell :)
You can find ADOdb here: http://adodb.sourceforge.net/

Here are some examples of your daily database connect and retrieval:
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