I began this year with the optimistic outlook that it would be the "year of PHP." Indeed, little did I know that this hopeful view would come true. With astounding and visionary statements from such prominent figures as "Marc Andreessen":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen, who recently joined the board of "Zend Technologies, Inc.":http://www.zend.com/ -- "when it comes to the Web and Web applications, Java is not the right language[1]" and "PHP is to 2005 what Java was to 1995[1]" -- the forecast for PHP looks bright and sunny.