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On NetTuts.com today a new tutorial has been posted to help you test your applications and make it a simpler process using the EnhancePHP framework. EnhancePHP is a lightweight Open Source PHP unit testing framework with support for mocks and stubs.

Christmas time, time for presents! Version 1.2.0-alpha of the free and open source PHP mysqlnd replication and load balancing plugin has been made available on PECL.

PECL/mysqlnd_ms makes using any kind of MySQL database cluster easier featuring: Read-write splitting: automatic, SQL hints, can be disabled Load balancing: random, round robin, ...

Steve Francia has posted a follow-up to his "On Symfony2" post to his blog today with an introduction to the framework that helps you get everything installed you'll need.

There's a few well-known PHP-based content management systems out there that everyone seems to use. In this new post to the Webification site today, they want to help broaden that view with their list of twenty lesser known CMSes.

On the Zend Developer Zone, there's a post from Keith Casey about an open source project he's worked on for the past three years has made it to get where it is.

This also includes some of the challenges they faced and how they've made sure the code's gotten better over time.

PHP comes with a number of options to help developers dynamically generate PDF files from within their applications.

The Haru and PDF lib extensions offer a complete API for dynamic PDF generation, and there also exist a number of open-source PHP components that can be used for the same purpose.

This article will introduce you to one such component, the Zend_Pdf component that ships as part of the Zend Framework, and illustrate how it can be used to perform sophisticated PDF operations from within a PHP application.

CMW Wire: "This week Packt is announcing one new award winner a day. Already they've revealed that Drupal won Best Open Source PHP CMS "

The folks over at Mayflower are running a poll asking you what PHP framework you use the most in your development.

Options include CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Prado, Zend Framwork and Symfony.

You'll need to get your vote in before November 15th and represent your framework of choice.