Just asking: why do most programmers dislike PHP?: Interesting debate over at Reddit about why PHP is “disliked” among “most developers” (the veracity of that last sentence is up for debate). Lots of good argument, including this fun rant: PHP been hacked together in a half-assed way by a community…
htmlSQL - live example: This is fascinating. Handy for HTML parsing. htmlSQL is a experimental PHP class which allows you to access HTML values by an SQL like syntax. This means that you don’t have to write complex functions (regular expressions) to extract specific values.