Mailing Lists

There are many PHP-related mailing lists available on our server. Most of them are archived, and all of them are available as newsgroups on our . The archives are searchable. There is an experimental web interface for the news server at , and there are also other archives provided by , , and .

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General Mailing Lists

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			n/a
General user list This is a really high volume general list for PHP users	no
Windows PHP users list Using PHP on Microsoft Windows	no
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
Databases and PHP This list is for the discussion of PHP database topics	no
Internationalization Internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) issues and features	no
PHP evangelism mailing list A list for people interested in promoting PHP and learning good reasons to support PHP in the enterprise	yes
PHP SOAP list List for the SOAP developers	no	n/a			n/a
Non-English language mailing lists	Moderated	Archive	Newsgroup	Normal	Digest
Spanish PHP Mailing list List for Spanish speaking people interested in PHP	no	n/a			n/a

Internals Mailing Lists

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
CVS commit list All the commits of the cvs PHP code repository are posted to this list automatically	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	n/a
Quality Assurance list List for the members of the PHP-QA Team	no				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				n/a
PHP CHM documentation list List for developers of the Windows Help-format PHP documentation	no	n/a

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Warning: The PHP users mailing list gets close to 4000 messages per month currently. Do the math. That translates to about 130 messages per day. If your mailbox can't handle this sort of traffic you might want to consider subscribing to the digest list instead (two messages per day), using the news server, or reading the mailing list using the archives.

You can search the main mailing lists right from this website from the search page or by using the search input box selecting the appropriate option on the top-right of every page.

Local Mailing Lists and Newsgroups

There are also some mailing lists and newsgroups for PHP users that have been set up by others in the community to host local (particularly non-English) discussions.

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