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Version 1.9.0 of David Wheeler's excellent Bricolage Perl CMS adds the ability to call PHP from inside the system. It also sports a new UI, built with standards compliant XHMTL 1.0 Strict and CSS.

But the really exciting news is the new PHP 5 Templating Architecture, on top of the existing Mason, Template Toolkit, and HTML::Template systems. To pull it off, the Bricolage team brought in George Schlossnagle of Omni TI to write a full-blown PHP::Interpreter. The new Perl module is not restricted to deployment inside of Bricolage, you can install and use it from any Perl application. Not only does it allow you to call PHP from Perl, with you can reach back and access Perl objects and methods from inside PHP.

You heard me, you can access any CPAN module from inside PHP. Wow. I have goosebumps on my arms.

With the addition of the leaner UI and new support for mod_gzip, the Bricolage system gets a nice performance boost as well.

Via O'Reilly Radar.