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13. Paid services subscriptions and PHP-Con conference in USA

Posted on: 2002-09-19

Hello,

It has been a while since I released the survey about the interest on having additional valued services available to paid subscribers. The survey went very well as a significant number of users expressed immediate interest at least on some of the proposed services.
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12. Your class ratings by site users

Posted on: 2002-07-24

Hello,

Since the number of classes of overlapping purposes is raising and the site users have been requesting so they can figure in advance if a class is worth downloading, some time soon I will be implementing a system that will let the users rate the classes that you provided in several aspects: utility, documentation, examples scripts and sample output. Other aspects may be considered later but these will be the most important that I will support.
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11. Paid services survey fixed

Posted on: 2002-07-21

Hello,

Thank you to the hundreds of users that reported the problem in survey form. It as a minor bug in form field page allocation that was exposed due to last minute changes in page order resorting. Since it was only visible to people filling the forms for the first time (all of you), it escaped my tests.

The problem is fixed now. I would like to apologise for the inconvinience and having to mail you again.
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10. Paid site services survey

Posted on: 2002-07-19

Hello,

I am writing you because this is a very critical moment for the future of the site for which I would greatly appreciate you time and attention.
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9. Latest PHP news in the site newsletter and comp.lang.php newsgroup to be approved with your help

Posted on: 2002-06-07

Hello,

Finally I implemented something that I have been willing to have for a long time. I have just include in the PHP Classes site newsletter the head lines of the latest PHP news that were released in several other sites.

So, now everybody subscribed to the site newsletter can be kept up to date with the latest news in the PHP world without having to keep polling many sites to know if any interesting news were released.
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8. Friends of PHP Classes site

Posted on: 2002-06-03

Hello,

Finally I have started an initiative that is meant to provide recognition to all users that contribute to the growth of the site community, including those that have not contributed with any classes.

After looking at the site statistics, I came to the conclusion that there is a steady rate of one new contributor for every 250 new subscribers. So I realized that if there is a way to increase the rate of new subscribers, eventually more and better new class contributions would be made.
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7. Weekly newsletter available!

Posted on: 2002-05-13

Hello,

Finally I made available an automatic newsletter that gets sent to the subscribers that will to receive a digest with the new content made available in the site for the last week.

The site contributions have increased so much in the latest times that many people that it was making a lot of the subscribers requests request for digest newsletter, so they don't have to put up with so many alert messages.
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6. Mirrors and internal search engine available!

Posted on: 2002-04-02

Hello,

Finally, after many weeks of development and testing, the PHP Classes site non-personalized content is available for mirroring.

This means that the site pages may now be served from mirror sites around the world, possibly from a server closer to your network instead of just the main site, thus off-loading its server.

For now, there are just a few mirrors but soon there will be more. The more the traffic is diverted to mirror sites the faster it will become the service to everybody.
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5. Authors address spammed

Posted on: 2002-03-01

Hello,

Recently I have realized that the authors of the packages uploaded to the PHP Classes site have been spammed by entities unrelated to the site.

The site was not hacked nor any private information was disclosed. It seems that somebody has crawled over the site pages and grabbed the authors e-mail addresses.

Since I should have figured that someday that could happen, I would like to apologise to you if you have been exposed to the spam.
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4. New host for PHP Classes

Posted on: 2002-03-01

Hello,

Finally the PHP Classes site was moved to a new host server. This time is a server that is part of a project yet to be publically revealed that meant to host Open Source projects like this.

The good part is that it is a Linux 2.4.x based server that is for now not so busy as the Solaris 2.8 virtual server where it used to be hosted. So the site should really fly now!
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