Rasmus Lerdorf at OSCON: Getting Rich with PHP 5
Rasmus Lerdorf gave a talk on “Getting Rich with PHP 5”. He showed techniques to dramatically improve the throughput of a web application. Click [ more ] and I’ll give you the details.

Creating A Fulltext Search Engine In PHP 5 With The Zend Framework's Zend Search Lucene
This article covers the implementation of a fulltext search engine using PHP 5 and the Zend Framework. We will be using the Zend_Search_Lucene component to create and search our fulltext index.

Monitoring File Uploads using Ajax and PHP
Because of the limitations of HTTP, it is difficult to monitor the status of files as they are uploaded via HTML forms. While other programming languages have built-in methods to monitor file uploads, PHP does not. This article shows how to implement such a solution in PHP. We will use Ajax to retrieve information about a file as it is being uploaded and display the progress back to the user.