Ben has recently published some code for routing requests to the correct controllers and views in a PHP MVC framework, so I've spent some of my weekend integrating it into my codebase (yep, this is the sort of thing I do on weekends).

Mapping URLs to site functionality has always seemed quite clumsy in my projects to date; Ben's solution has quite a Rails feel to it and is definitely the most elegant method I have encountered to date.

Based on examples by Chris Veness; functions for calculating the distance in miles or km between 2 pairs of latitude and longitude co-ordinates in PHP and JavaScript (also requires Number.prototype.round.js - because using Math.round() is just annoying).

It has been available from my SVN repository for a while, but you can view my pavatar object source using Collaboa; it supports all 3 methods of retrieval and a caching mechanism, as required by the Pavatar 0.3.0 Candidate Recommendation

If anyone finds this useful enough to want to use it, I'm open to licensing suggestions.

If you have to write some server side code (such as PHP) to receive a file being uploaded through HTTP POST from ActionScript 2.0 (such as in Flash 8 - here is a good tutorial) - the $_FILES['Filedata'] variable which PHP can access is something defined in the Flash internals - not something a Flash developer sets.

Hopefully this will save some PHP and Flash developers a few hours of headache.