As PHPs importance grows on the IT scenesomething that is happening every dayits clear that its true capabilities go well beyond what its being used for today. The PHP platform itself has a lot of potential as a general-purpose language, and not just a scripting tool; just its basic extensions, even discounting repositories like PEAR and PECL, provide a highquality array of functionality that most of its commercial competitors cant afford without expensive external components. At php|a, we