Ted from AllSunnyvale.com sent me this link:

Yahoo Lays Out Welcome Mat For PHP Devs

Yahoo PHP Developer Center has some good information on integration with their web services and general links to PHP resources.

Evidently Yahoo employs Rasmus Lerdorf, the original creator of PHP.

Nice article at Sitepoint.com on easy ways to backup your MySQL databases.

Diary of A Webmaster Part 4 - Backing Up With MySQLDump

From SitePoint Blogs : Dynamically Typed: PHP5 In Depth

Links to several articles at Zend on PHP5.

Sitepoint has released several blogs of interest to web developers, including Harry Fuecks PHP Blog: Dynamically Typed. One of the early entries describes how to write
Lazy PHP, which is code designed to reduce the amount of unnecessary code parsed by the PHP engine.

Worth a read for couple of reasons. Sitepoint's standards for content are high. Harry has also written some great stuff on PHP coding. He is the author of Sitepoint's new PHP book, and has his own excellent PHP site: phpPatterns().

Again ... if coding isn't your thing this won't interest you in the slightest!

Wow ... I have done a bit of reading on PHP5 already (mainly the whole object oriented programming angle), but the article I cited below alerted me to something I had not read about elsewhere. Evidently PHP5 will include its own lightweight database engine - SQLite. I can see plenty of applications for fast and simple database functionality even used in conjunction with MySQL or Postgresql.

I had an application the other day where I wanted to cache a result set from a reasonably complex MySQL query in a temporary table for faster retrieval second time round ... sounds like this would offer even faster retrieval.

Having said this there is some discussion (and link to discussion) of limitations here ...

SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine