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Kurt Payne has a new post to his blog showing how you can unit test your process forking in your PHP application (pcntl).

Kevin Schroeder has come back around and has posted a new tutorial to his blog showing how to connect PDT to the Zend Developer Cloud (the "PHP Development Tools" extension for the Eclipse IDE).

Recently a site called The Twelve Factor App surfaced as a guideline for web applications to be at their best.

Bradley Holt has taken these suggestions and has applied them to PHP applications in a few quick comments to each point.

Slawek Lukasiewicz has posted about a handy tool that can be used to track memory consumption and performance in your PHP application - memtrack.

Henri Bergius has a new post to his blog today about a tool that could help make code reuse across PHP applications a much simpler process.

The Composer tool (and Packagist) make setting up packages and dependencies easy.

Would you like to see the EXPLAIN output for all MySQL queries of any PHP application without changing the application much?

Easy-peasy: compile PHP to use the mysqlnd library, install PECL/mysqlnd_uh and paste 22 lines of evil code into your auto_prepend_file . class conn_proxy extends MysqlndUhConnection { public function query($conn, $query, ...

SitePoint' PHPMaster.com has a new tutorial posted today from Martin Psinas about some tactics to prevent cross-site request forgeries from happening in your PHP application.

The article introduces key concepts of CSRF and how you can keep it from happening in your code.

Artur Ejsmont has a new post with a passionate call to arms for anyone who thinks that just because their URL has "https" in it, it's secure.

He presents his suggestion on how to properly secure SSL API calls for your PHP application.

Kevin Schroeder has a new post to his blog today showing how you can use the Zend_Amf component in your Flex+PHP application to authenticate users with the same authentication structure the rest of the application uses.

On DevShed today there's a new tutorial showing you how to integrate Facebook commenting with your PHP application via the Facebook Connect API.