I am a big fan of LINQ (if you don't know what it is check out our Intro to LINQ Tutorial in C#) and I just started playing with an interesting php library, PHPLinq (created by Maarten Balliauw), for integrating a LINQ-like syntax into PHP. This tutorial is going to go over the basics of using this library and some of the cool things that can be done with it.

Every programmer has had to parse an XML file. If you're trying to tell me you haven't, then you're lying and you just don't remember it. You probably shouldn't even call yourself a programmer.