Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Advanced PHP Tutorial: 7 Useful functions to tighten the security in PHP
  
• Adminx Web: 15 Best Ever PHP Frameworks
  
• Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP
  
• Seldo.com: PHP needs to die. What will replace it?
  
• Nurul Ferdous' Blog: Here is my 2 cents on Doctrine (ORM)
  
• SitePoint PHP Blog: High-Performance String Concatenation in PHP
  
• ServerGrove Blog: Logging MongoDB queries using Symfony 2 and Doctrine ODM
  
• ServerGrove Blog: Creating indexes for your Doctrine ODM documents with Symfony 2
  
• Shameer's Blog: An Introduction to Smarty 3
  
• Project: phpGolf - Programming Challenge
  
• IBuildings techPortal: Understanding APC
  
• Benjamin Schneider's Blog: Use PHP's Tidy extension to validate your (X)HTML markup
  
• Michelangelo van Dam's Blog: Single User Zend_Service_Twitter
  
• Gonzalo Ayuso's Blog: Performance analysis using bind parameters with PDO and PHP
  
• Simas Toleikis's Blog: Idea for a PHP Validator