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

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

• Reddit.com: What everyone should know about strip_tags()
  
• Nelm.io Blog: Composer: Part 2 - Impact
  
• DZone.com: Social Comparison of PHP Frameworks
  
• Leasewebs Labs: Painless (well, less painful) migration to Symfony2
  
• Joshua Thijssen's Blog: php 5.4 + htrouter: Your personal Apache 2.2 compatible server
  
• Zend PHP Certification Blog: PHP Sorting Functions
  
• Andrew Perkin's Site: Cakephp Video Tutorials (Authentication)
  
• Smashing Magazine: Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP (For Beginners)
  
• Dzone.com: Two Symfony2 Bundle Repositories
  
• Robert Basic's Blog: Communicating with Pidgin from PHP via D-Bus
  
• PHPMaster.com: PHP's Quest for Performance: From C to hhvm
  
• Phil Sturgeon's Blog: PHP Basher Bashing
  
• Mike Willbanks' Blog: RPM Packaging - Building and Deploying your own PHP
  
• php|architect: A Chat on Zend's phpcloud at ZendCon 2011
  
• DevShed: Building Concrete Validators