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

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

• Ulrich Kautz: PHP Validation & Sanitization
  
• PHPMaster.com: Living Apart Together: Decoupling Code and Framework
  
• Qafoo.com: Black Magic with Regular Expresions
  
• Community News: PHP Newsletter Announced - PHP Weekly
  
• Zumba Engineering Blog: Mocking Singleton PHP classes with PHPUnit
  
• Lorna Mitchell: Managing PHP 5.4 Extensions on Ubuntu
  
• Community News: PHPKnowHow.com - PHP in Plain English
  
• Paul Jones: Aura: First 1.0.0 Stable Library Releases!
  
• Dave Marshall: Silex Route Helpers for a Cleaner Architecture
  
• Derick Rethans: Mongo is dead, long live MongoClient
  
• Chris Jones: How (and when) to move users to mysqli and PDO_MYSQL?
  
• Symfony Blog: A full track dedicated to Symfony at SunshinePHP conference
  
• Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 11.30.2012
  
• Anthony Ferrara: Programming With Anthony - Encryption
  
• PHPMaster.com: PHPFog is Coming to an End - But Don't Panic!