# OPML Reading List & PHP Upgrade Notice


By Ben Ramsey

Published on May 4, 2006


The other day, I came across [Scott Johnson's](http://web.archive.org/web/20060427033406/http://www.fuzzyblog.com/) PHP [OPML Reading List](http://web.archive.org/web/20060621140611/http://fuzzyblog.com/archives/2006/04/27/a-php-present-an-opml-reading-list-of-serious-php-folk/). Offering an <abbr title="Outline Processor Markup Language">OPML</abbr> reading list for others to download is a great idea, and, since I've not yet blogged about it, I wanted to point out that I've been doing this for a long while now. On my [home page](http://benramsey.com/), under the "syndicate" heading, is a link to my [OPML blogroll](http://web.archive.org/web/20120129075028/http://benramsey.com/data/blogroll.opml.xml). Feel free to import my OPML into your feed reader; that's what it's there for. (Please also note that I use [SimpleXML](http://php.net/SimpleXML) to generate the blogroll on my home page from this list.)

There's a lot of overlap between Scott's and my list; however, I think both lists provide a good overview of some of the great PHP bloggers out there---and I know there are many more than are on these lists, as pointed out by [Chris](http://shiflett.org/blog/2006/apr/php-blogs-not-on-planet-php).

In other news, the PHP development team released PHP 5.1.3 earlier this week, and, shortly thereafter, a user [reported a critical bug with data in the `$_POST` array](https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37276) when submitting from a multi-part form. As of right now, there is no official release update posted on the [PHP downloads page](http://php.net/downloads.php), but [Chris](http://shiflett.org/blog/2006/may/php-5.1.4-fixes-critical-bug) provides a link to [download the 5.1.4 source from a mirror](http://php.net/releases/#5.1.4).

I've already compiled and updated from the new source, and I encourage you to do the same.

**UPDATE (5/5/06 4:30 UTC):** The PHP team has made an official announcement concerning the 5.1.4 release on their [Web site](http://php.net/releases/5_1_4.php) and have updated the [downloads page](http://php.net/downloads.php).