Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:
Pivory.com: From Ajax to WebSocket with PHP, a Quick Example
DZone.com: Sencha Touch 2 Models - Loading And Saving Model Data Using a Proxy, PHP Example
Matt Frost: Starting with Selenium (and Headless on a VM)
DevShed Forums: PHP is a fractal of bad design? Hardly.
PHPMaster.com: The Importance of Code Review
Reddit.com: PHP now, as an outdated developer
Miro Svrtan: Debugging Uploadify jQuery plugin with XDebug
Dean Clatworthy: Theming/styling error messages in Symfony 2
Rob Allen: Setting up PHP & MySQL on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Justin Carmony: Refactoring or Rebuilding: Working with Legacy Code
Pádraic Brady: PHP Security: Default Vulnerabilities, Security Omissions & Framing Programmer
Miro Svrtan: PHP Fatal errors into exceptions natively
Anthony Ferrara: Thoughts On PECL Frameworks
PHPMaster.com: Artisan and Laravel Migrations
Gonzalo Ayuso: How to use environ variables to create different environments with PHP