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I’m very happy to announce that I’ve had a second book published: “PHP Master: Writing Cutting-Edge Code.” This time, I had the honor and pleasure of co-authoring the content with my good friends and peers in the PHP community Lorna Jane Mitchell and Davey Shafik and working with the excellent team at

I recently started writing articles for PHPmaster.com, a site managed by SitePoint that syndicates PHP tutorials, opinions, and news.

The crew over at SitePoint have introduced a new PHP-specific resource that's looking to provide a good resource for those looking for community info and tutorials - PHPMaster.com.

PHPMaster is the latest and greatest in the SitePoint family, dedicated to bringing you the highest quality in tutorials from some of the web's best PHP Developers, as well as news and information on events in the PHP Community.

Tutorials posted so far include:

On the SitePoint PHP blog today Craig Buckler is back with the second part of their series on creating a Twitter widget for your site.

You can find more about the first part of the series here.

In part 1 of this series, we examined the Twitter API, created a PHP TwitterStatus class, and imported the latest tweets in JSON format.

In Part 2, we parsed the Twitter data, replaced links, and generated the complete html for our widget.

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• SitePoint PHP Blog: Top 10 MySQL Mistakes Made by PHP Developers
• Mashable.com: 8 Experts Break Down the Pros and Cons of Coding With PHP
• phpRiot.com: Using Callback Functions in PHP
• SimasToleikis' Blog: New to PHP 5.4: Traits
• Blitz Agency Blog: REST Service Routing with PHP and Ap

On the SitePoint PHP blog today there's a new post showing how how to make your own "short code" system that allows for custom function execution.

SitePoint.com has started a new series of posts today looking at how to make WordPress easier for clients to use and be happier with overall.

Craig Buckler looks at things that can help your clients think simpler and easier.

bOn the SitePoint PHP blog today there's a new post showing you how to debug applications with FirePHP (an extension of the popular Fireug extension for Firefox).

The SitePoint PHP blog has posted the next two parts of their series looking at using namespaces in PHP - parts 2 and 3:

In the second part of the series they build on the basics and look at importing namespaces into a script, aliasing them to a shorter, easier to use name and some rules to consider about name resolution.