Zend has announced the winners of its PHP 5 coding contest. The entry criteria were pretty flexible with the most stringent being that the application should be potentially useful to the PHP community.

The top three:

1. PRADO by Qiang Xue — an event-driven and component-based framework for Web application development in PHP5
2. wtcSQLite by Andrew Gallant — tool to visually administrate SQLite databases
3. LIMB by Pacha Shevaev — content management framework with tree/OO based controller

The winner took home, among other things, a brand spankin’ new laptop.