parsing

In this new post to his blog Robert Basic has a review of a book from php|architect (by Matthew Turland), "Guide to Web Scraping with PHP".

Padraic Brady has a new post on his blog talking about a new proposal he's made for the Zend Framework about filtering and sanitizing HTML content.

Manuel Pichler has a new post today about a feature he's added into the PHP_Depend application that tracks the dependencies in your code - a bit of DBus magic.

DevShed has continued their series looking at helper classes in PHP5 applications with this new tutorial about building a URL class to help with parsing and manipulation.

Phil Windley has has a new startup, and he is documenting some of aspects of their design process (business and technical) on his blog.

For us the nice part is that he is building a DSL. Here is an explanation why building a DSL makes sense (not that we need one, over here, but still a nice analysis).

And here is a discussion of high order perl and parsing.