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 news server. The archives are searchable. There is an experimental web interface for the news server at http://news.php.net/, and there are also other archives provided by Marc, php|architect, PHPBuilder and Zend.
If you have trouble getting off from any of our mailing lists, or would like to unsubscribe from a mailing list not listed here, we have more information for you on the unsubscription page.
Some PHP.net subsites have their own project specific pages about mailing lists. You can find the PEAR mailing lists, the PECL mailing lists, the PHP-GTK mailing lists, and the Smarty mailing lists on their own pages.
Note: When posting to mailing lists or newsgroups, please keep the following in mind:
- Use a valid email address. Every new poster's email address is checked for validity through confirmation.
- Send plain ASCII messages, no HTML-formatted emails please.
- Turn on wordwrapping so your entire message doesn't show up on a single line.
- No attachments please, just post a URL if you want someone to look at something.
- Don't GPG/PGP sign your messages. If you want people to be able to send you encrypted email, stick your key-locator in your signature
- Don't hijack other peoples' threads. To post on a new topic, start a new message, don't reply and just change the subject.
- Check the archives before posting a question, chances are it has already been asked and answered a few times.
- When asking a question, don't just tell us, "it doesn't work". Tell us what you are trying to accomplish, a short code snippet showing how you tried to solve it, what you expected to get and what you got instead.
You will be sent a confirmation mail at the address you wish to be subscribed or unsubscribed, and only added to the list after following the directions in that mail.
There are a variety of commands you can use to modify your subscription. Either send a message to php-whatever-help@lists.php.net (as in, php-general-help@lists.php.net) or you can view the commands for ezmlm here.
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.
- Danish Newsgroup
- French Newsgroup
- German Mailing List
- German Newsgroup (also other topics under de.comp.lang.php)
- Greek Mailing List
- Hungarian Mailing List
- Indonesian Mailing List
- Italian Mailing List (at PHPItalia)
- Italian Mailing List
- Italian Mailing List (coordinating the translation of the PHP manual)
- The Japanese PHP User Group's Mailing lists
- Portuguese Mailing List