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

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

• PHPBuilder.com: The PHP Fat-Free Framework: Slim Down Your PHP Development
  
• Zend Developer Zone: Creating Web Page Templates with PHP and Twig (part 1)
  
• SitePoint.com: An Introduction to CodeIgniter
  
• DZone.com: PHP Quick Reference
  
• DZone.com: Solarium PHP Solr client
  
• Vance Lucas' Blog: Protected vs Private Scope: Arrogance, Fear and Handcuffs
  
• Smashing Magazine: Image Manipulation With jQuery and PHP GD
  
• CatsWhoCode.com: 10 super useful PHP snippets
  
• Oracle Technology Network: Scaling a PHP MySQL Web Application, Part 1
  
• Lukas Smith's Blog: Symfony2 community pushing the PHP ecosystem
  
• PHPBuilder.com: 5 Popular PHP Template Engines Worth Checking Out
  
• 3 Engineers Blog: 3 Step Layouts in Zend Framework
  
• Devis Lucato's Blog: PHP BDD with Cucumber/Cuke4Php
  
• Kevin Schroeder's Blog: Why do you use PHP?
  
• Maarten Balliauw's Blog: Lightweight PHP application deployment to Windows Azure