Webdesign

This page is intended as a reference for functionality PHP provides which can either help with handling UTF-8 or should be regarded as a risk when used in conjunction with UTF-8 encoded strings.
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A few lines of PHP code including in your css stylesheet will automatically handle the compression of CSS files.

There is also a way of gzipping the CSS file for a better compression?

Justin Silverton has compiled a comprehensive list of "good template engines" (25 in total!).
http://www.whenpenguinsattack.com/2006/07/19/php-template-engine-roundup/

Read also the posts comparing 2 of them: Smarty vs. PHPSavant
http://revjim.net/index.php?p=10170/
http://revjim.net/index.php?p=10171/
http://paul-m-jones.com/blog/index.php?p=72

Why choosing not to use templates but short php code instead?
http://www.phpguru.org/static/templating.html
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/beyond-template-engine

PhpSecInfo
http://phpsec.org/projects/phpsecinfo/
PhpSecInfo provides an equivalent to the phpinfo() function that reports security information about the PHP environment, and offers suggestions for improvement. It is not a replacement for secure development techniques, and does not do any kind of code or app auditing, but can be a useful tool in a multilayered security approach.

Chorizo!
https://chorizo-scanner.com/
Chorizo! is a Next Generation Web Application Security Scanner. It acts as a proxy between your browser and your application, recording all requests you make to your application. It scans in the background for security issues like Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Cross Site Request Forging (CSRF), Code Inclusion, Remote Code Execution, PHP vulnerabilities, Session injection and more.

TechCrunch, FeedBurner, iStockPhoto, YouSendIt, Meebo, Vimeo and Alexaholic. These are some of the most popular websites on the Internet. [...]
This article dives into the facts and figures about the underlying hardware and software that keep these sites running smoothly in spite of their massive popularity.

Pingdom performed a survey of these seven 'super sites' that focused on web, database and file server numbers and setup, operating systems, bandwidth usage, network hardware and other technical questions relevant to maintaining a site.

For those who are interested in the nitty-gritty details there is a PDF matrix with the survey results attached to this article:
http://royal.pingdom.com/royalfiles/0702_infrastructure_matrix.pdf

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As could have been guessed, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is by far the most common setup of the surveyed websites. The dominance is far from total, though, and the elements of LAMP are all challenged by alternatives that are growing in popularity.

It´s worth noting that even among the alternatives, most are open source. Open source rhymes well with the Internet´s focus on standardization, more so now than ever before.