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General mailing lists for PHP users Moderated Archive Newsgroup Normal Digest

Announcements
Announcements of new PHP releases are sent to this very low-volume list yes n/a yes n/a

General user list
This is a really high volume general list for PHP users no yes yes

Windows PHP users list
Using PHP on Microsoft Windows no yes yes

Subject specific lists for PHP users Moderated Archive Newsgroup Normal Digest

Installation issues and problems
How to install PHP with partiucular configurations, and servers no yes yes

Databases and PHP
This list is for the discussion of PHP database topics no yes yes

Internationalization
Internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) issues and features no yes yes

PHP evangelism mailing list
A list for people interested in promoting PHP and learning good reasons to support PHP in the enterprise yes yes yes

PHP SOAP list
List for the SOAP developers no n/a n/a n/a

PHP and Zend Engine internals lists Moderated Archive Newsgroup Normal Digest

Internals list
A medium volume list for those who want to help out with the development of PHP no yes yes n/a

CVS commit list
All the commits of the cvs PHP code repository are posted to this list automatically yes yes yes n/a

Daily CVS commit summary
Daily changelog and NEWS file updates yes n/a n/a n/a

Zend Engine CVS commit list
All the commits of the Zend Engine CVS modules are posted to this list automatically no yes yes

Quality Assurance list
List for the members of the PHP-QA Team no yes yes n/a

PHP documentation mailing lists Moderated Archive Newsgroup Normal Digest

PHP documentation list
List for the authors of the PHP documentation with CVS commits no yes yes n/a

PHP CHM documentation list
List for developers of the Windows Help-format PHP documentation no n/a yes

PEAR mailing lists Moderated Archive Newsgroup Normal Digest

PEAR general list
A list for users of PEAR, an open-source common code library for PHP no yes yes

PEAR developers list
A list for developers of PEAR, an open-source common code library for PHP no yes yes

PEAR CVS list
All the commits of the cvs PEAR code repository are posted to this list automatically no yes yes

PHP-GTK mailing lists Moderated Archive Newsgroup Normal Digest

PHP-GTK general list
A list for users of PHP-GTK, An extension for PHP making it possible to write client-side GUI applications no yes yes

PHP-GTK documentation list
List for the authors of the PHP-GTK documentation with CVS commits no yes yes n/a

PHP-GTK developers list
A list for the developers of PHP-GTK, An extension for PHP making it possible to write client-side GUI applications no yes yes

PHP-GTK CVS list
All the commits to the cvs PHP-GTK code repository are posted to this list automatically no yes yes

Smarty template engine project mailing lists Moderated Archive Newsgroup Normal Digest

General user list
This is a medium volume general list for Smarty users no yes yes

Smarty developers list
A list for Smarty developers no yes yes

Smarty CVS commit list
All the commits of the cvs Smarty code repository are posted to this list automatically yes yes yes n/a

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Local Mailing Lists

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Last updated: Thu Oct 31 18:34:28 2002 EST