Let’s take a look at php|architect’s latest book, “php|architect’s guide to Web Scraping with PHP”. Click on in, I’ll tell what’s in it and what’s not. I’ll cover the good, the bad and the ugly. In short, I’ll give you enough information to make the decision to buy or not to buy but I won’t give away the ending.

Today’s special guest is Manuel Lemos. Manuel is from Portugal and currently lives in Brazil where he works full-time on PHPClasses.org that he created in 1999. Today, Manuel is going to talk to us about “Streams Abstraction”

p. Rob Young recently posted on his blog an interesting article on non-blocking I/O in PHP. He gives a pretty good explanation of what multiplexed I/O is and why you may or may not want to use it.