Beta releases of PHP 5.4 and Zend Framework 2.0 show developers what to expect in major updates set to debut in 2012.

There's no shortage of PHP shopping carts, but determining which one is right for your ecommerce project isn't easy. Here's a list of reviews for the 10 most popular.

The dev release of Zend Server previews cloud automation capabilities for the PHP middleware server.

Application vulnerability testing toolkit finally stabilizes with new PHP static analysis tools.

Zend partners with RightScale in new PHP development effort for the cloud.

Adobe updates Flex and Flash Builder with new releases that enable developers to develop for multiple mobile platforms including Android, Blackberry and even iOS.

Learn how to leverage the DooPHP PHP framework to create a simple yet dynamic, database-integrated website.

FPDF provides PDF manipulation capabilities in PHP at open source prices. Find out how to use this single-class PHP enhancement.

If you're a PHP Developer Tools (PDT) user, these 10 tips will make you a much more efficient PHP developer on Eclipse.

The PHP object-relational mapper Doctrine 2 offers expansive capabilities for effectively managing data and relations.

Learn two easy ways to begin testing your Zend Framework forms using PHPUnit and the Zend_Test component.

This video introduction to PHP's object-oriented features explores creating class hierarchies through inheritance, class abstraction, and managing arrays of objects.

This screencast introduces you to PHP's object-oriented syntax, showing you how to create and populate a class and how to work with object data.

These nine cutting-edge PHP development projects bring the PHP language to everything from Android to Apple's Cocoa to Ruby.

Popular open source content management system Drupal gets a major boost after a long development cycle. Is it now ready for the enterprise?

Run PHP and Zend Framework scripts from the command line whenever you need to run scripts from the shell.

The new OOP features in PHP 5 offer new features for constructors and destructors. Learn how to write almost any kind of constructor for your PHP 5 classes.

Open source language and tool development ramped up in 2010, a big year for Java and Ruby while PHP, Perl and Python also advanced.

Behat enables PHP developers to take advantage of behavior driven development (BDD) using the familiar PHP environment and syntax.

Here are 10 tips and tricks for effectively manipulating arrays within PHP applications.

The Zend Framework's Zend_Cache component is an easy way to implement PHP caching, a sure site performance booster.

The PHP Extension and Application Repository, or PEAR, is a treasure trove of high-quality PHP libraries. These 10 are particularly powerful.

Design patterns in PHP can lead to performance issues if improperly implemented. Learn the right way to do it.

Check out these 10 wide-ranging testing and debugging utilities that can make any PHP developer more productive.

Validate and sanitize user input in PHP applications using the Filter extension, an official part of the PHP distribution as of the 5.2.0 release.