> 1) Clear up my personal confusion between PEAR and PECL :-) PECL are binary extensions to PHP. PEAR is just PHP code, done as class libraries to use in your project. ZF is more like Pear than it is PECL (if that helps).
> 2) Provide simple (and free) mod_rewrite compatiblity between IIS and Apache using .htaccess files! (and other web-serving solutions) This has nothing to do with PHP. Mod_rewrite is an Apache thing. There is ISAPI_Rewrite that is supposed to have some compatibility with mod_rewrite, but I¹ve never used it, so can¹t speak from experience. You know you can run Apache on Windows? If I¹m forced to use Windows Server instead of Linux for PHP, I try to insist that I am allowed to use Apache. > I don't pretend to understand what is coming with PHP6 Mostly unicode support (UTF-16), and not much else from what I can tell. Check this out for a little more info about it: http://xentek.net/etc/90/look-out-here-comes-php-6/ - Eric Marden
