PHP 7 moves full speed ahead
Spoiler: it's all about performance. Coming to a host near you in 2015.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2841561/php/php-7-moves-full-speed-ahead.html
Modernizing Legacy Applications In PHP
An excellent read for if you're dealing with a large legacy code base that mainly consists of spaghetti.
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A PHP package for mapping remote API resources (usually RESTful) as models in an ActiveResource style.
Digging in to Laravel's IoC Container
Inversion of Control, or IoC, is a technique that allows control to be inverted when compared to classical procedural code. The most prominent form of IoC is, of course, Dependency Injection, or DI. Laravel's IoC container is one of the most used Laravel features, yet is probably the least understood.http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/digging-in-to-laravels-ioc-container--cms-22167
Why is the Zend Framework not popular
The question gets answered by Bill Karwin, the project lead of the 1.0 release.
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Zend-Framework-not-popular/answers/8173410
