Timothy Boronczyk has posted about a new site/service he's created with PHP - Paste Ninja. He details it more in the post:

Paste Ninja is a pastebin application that lets you to share code snippets with others. Instead of flooding an IRC channel or your Instant Messenger conversations with lines of source code, you can paste it online for public viewing.

The world probably doesn't need another pastebin app, either, but there are several features in store that other pastebins don't have.

Features for Paste Ninja include:

• the ability to create threaded pastes,
• set an expiration date for the entry,
• set a password to protect the code,
• see how many times its been viewed
• set the comments on a line-by-line basis
• and - a very cool feature - submitting it via an email account versus just through the site.

Knut Urdalen has posted a new blog item about something he calls "washing emails":

In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a simple PHP script to cleanup a list of email addresses. As a web developer you have probably been asked to wash a list of emails from a manager or marketer some times. Here's the ultimate solution.

His script does a few things - removes duplicates, validates that the email address exists, uses pipes for communication and is as flexible as possible to work on most PHP distributions. You can download the simple script here.

On the Developer.com website today, Jason Gilmore has a new tutorial covering a important feature of any based PHP install (unless disabled, of course) that is widely taken advantage of - sending emails.

Email plays a crucial role in website development, whether you'd like to confirm a new registrant's email address, recover a lost password, or provide prospective clients with a convenient means to contact you. [...] In this tutorial, I'll introduce you to several solutions for sending email using PHP, including PHP's native mail() function, PEAR's Mail package, and the Zend Framework.

He starts with some of the fundamentals of mail - the difference between POP3 and SMTP, Sendmail, etc - before moving on to an example of the mail function's usage. He does the same with the PEAR Mail package and the Zend_Mail component of the Zend Framework.

As has been noted by Hyder Alamgir, there's been a recent big update to the Flex/Flash and PHP cookbook from Jonnie Spratley.

Here is a little thing that I made up for people using Flex/Flash and amfphp a little cheat sheet to use as a reference. This has been completely re-done since it has been so popular. I have commented all of the code very well so that does most of the explaining of what code does what. I also added a few more calls such as sending email, sending images, sending files, searching and pagination.

"Recipes" include everything you'd need to get all set up - installing AMFPHP, connecting to MySQL, creating a CRUD interface and making calls back and forth. Other examples include sending emails and a comparison of the data types between PHP and ActionScript.

DevShed continues their series on working with the CodeIgniter framework in this new tutorial focusing on development with the included email class for the framework.

Code Igniter comes equipped with so many other useful features, that covering all of them by a few articles is practically impossible. Even so, in this eighth chapter of the series, I'll be providing you with a quick overview on working with its email class, in this manner you can start using it when developing your own PHP applications.

He looks at the creation of an Email controller (defining the headers and content for the message) and a view that takes in custom information from a HTML form and submits it back through the controller to be sent.

Kevin Waterson has posted a new article to his site today - an introductory look at security in your PHP applications.

One of the great benefits of PHP is its ease of access to new-comers. Its entry level is minimal and so attracts those looking for simple scripts to their sites. It is this same ease of access that becomes a problem as the new-comers begin to deal with input from users. Failure to adequately validate and sanitize data is the leading cause of security problems when dealing with PHP.

He looks at a few different areas that developers need to focus on (and be sure to filter on) like PHP_SELF, protection from email header injections, file inclusion and the use of error reporting to make handling user-generated errors "more correct".

DevShed has the second of a two part tutorial posted today on sending emails with the included mail() function.

In this article we will look at the protocol that is involved in sending email messages. We will also examine the thorny issue of how to send an attachment with an email message. This article is the second of two parts.

They include examples of sending simple messages and more complex ones with things like attachments and custom headers. They also tack on a look at the PEAR::Mail package to the end showing how it can make sending some things a little less painful.

In this new blog post Kae Verens shares a method he came up with to change over about 300 domains' worth of email over from qmail to posfix in an orderly, automated fashion.

Yesterday we had to move about 300 domains from one machine to another. We bought a new machine recently and are taking this opportunity to move from Qmail (difficult to use, in my opinion) towards Postfix. After doing one or two by hand, i decided that's stupid - why not just automate the whole thing.

The script reads from vqadmin and pushes that information over to mailadmin who makes the emails over on the postfix side. The script makes heavy use of the cURL extension to get the job done.

DevShed has finished off their series looking at sending MIME emails with PHP in this new tutorial, moving the current code from the previous parts up to a fully PHP5 state.

While this mailer class can be used with small PHP applications, it lacks some important features related specifically to its object model, since it was built in PHP 4 from the very beginning.

They review the PHP4 version of the script first then move on to the process of porting it to a more standardized PHP5 structure and code.

As the time for this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo grows closer, there's more and more talk about who'll be there and what will be talked about. The Zend Developer Zone is taking the opportunity to do a little looking back - and having some fun in the process. They're hosting a ZendCon trivia contest for some fabulous prizes.

Let's have a little fun, shall we? Here is what we'll do. I'll ask ZendCon or PHP trivia via twitter (http://twitter.com/zendcon) and the first person to email me the correct answer at contest@zend.com will win a prize.

Up for grabs are ZendCon trading cards, books, elePHPants and copies of Zend Studio. Remember, you have to be following zendcon on twitter to get the questions and answers must be submitted via email (no DM, IM, tweets or IRC answers will count).