database connection

James Cohen has a recent post to his blog looking at a way you can avoid some of the character encoding problems in PHP that can come with working with multiple character sets.

Quentin Zervaas has posted a new tutorial on phpRiot.com today with a quick look at using Zend_Db to pull information out of your database.

On the Symfony blog there's a recent post showing how to integrate the framework with Doctrine 2 via the sfDoctrinePlugin:

Vid Luther has a new post today looking at connecting to multiple databases inside of your Symfony framework application.

The key is in setting up your YAML files the right way.

Phil Sturgeon has posted a quick guide on working with UTF-8 support in the CodeIgniter framework.

No one's code is perfect, and if you think yours is - you're wrong. There'll always be something - might be logic errors or unhandled exceptions - that could cause issues later on.

One of the worst problems, at least according to Keith Casey's recent post, is making too many assumptions.