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New PHP community site

Via The Farm, Chris Shiflett is calling for assistance in setting up a new PHP community site to run along similar lines to use Perl. Chris has already secured an offer of hosting and support from O’Reilly and is now seeking offers of help from potential contributers. PHP has long needed a site of this kind (PHP Builder has lost a lot of momentum since being sold by Tim Perdue) so this could be a worth while project to get involved with if you have the time.

I wonder if Python would benefit from something like this? Python already has an excellent decentralised community centered mainly around the Python newsgroups, blogs and mailing lists, but it would be nice if Python.org provided more community oriented features.

Posted 5th December 2003 at 2:22 am

This is New PHP community site by Simon Willison, posted on 5th December 2003.

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  1. This is quite true. I haven't really found a good PHP community/site that has regular updates and medium-to-advanced tutorials. Everything is painfully basic on the myriad of low traffic PHP-centric programming sites. It's too bad, too.

    dusty - 5th December 2003 19:41 - #

  2. Feel free to join pydotorg-redesign and argue the toss about issues like this with some of the internets finest idiots!

    Well, that's probably a bit unfair, I'm not on the list and I'm sure some useful stuff gets discussed. The point is that people are aware of the issues, but it's a lot harder to create a good community oriented website than realise one might be a good idea :-)

    Michael Hudson - 8th December 2003 11:22 - #

  3. There's discussion about this in the November PyPy Dev list.[1] I've sent the person who cue'd me to this list the ORA blog entry regarding the PHP site. [1] http://codespeak.net/pipermail/pypy-dev/2003q4/001 194.html

    DeanG - 8th December 2003 19:18 - #

  4. There was some talk about this on comp.lang.python, specifically adding user comments to the online documentation.

    I started implementing something, but realized I was letting myself get badly distracted ;)

    Ian Bicking - 9th December 2003 17:34 - #

  5. I'm interested in helping out with the launch of this website. Drop me a line.

    Ted Wood - 27th March 2004 04:40 - #

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