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Finally I have made time to implement a feature requested by several class authors for a long time, which is the ability to upload binary files, specifically files of graphical image formats. So, from now on you can upload image files of the types: GIF, JPEG and PNG.
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Hello,

It has been a while since I sent an editorial newsletter like this to the PHP Classes site subscribers.

This year has been intense in terms of the development of new features, the increase in new subscribers, the increase in submitted classes, and consequently, the increase in traffic that the site had, and in the cost to maintain it.
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Hello,

As you may have noticed, the PHP Classes site has a new feature that lets you specify which other packages also submitted to the PHP Classes may be needed to run your classes.

This is meant to let the users that are trying your classes know which dependencies the classes have so they know that which other classes they may need to download to use yours without difficulties.
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Hello,

As we all know, the PHP community has grown without much commercial support from companies investing large sums of money to market it. Word of mouth has always been the most powerful means of spreading news about PHP capabilities.
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Hello,

The PHP Classes has now a feature that highlights classes that are meant to work in applications used mainly in a specific country. For instance, classes meant to deal with US zip codes, are highlighted as US specific classes.

This is meant to help users that are developing country specific applications to find faster classes that provide solutions that address their country specific problems.
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Hello,

I am writing you quickly to tell about a couple of neat things that are going on about the PHP Classes site:

1. By suggestion of a few users, I have created a community in Orkut dedicated to the PHP Classes site. If you do not know what Orkut is, it is site of Google that is meant establish communities of trusted people that already know each other or at least share common interests.
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The PHP Classes site announces today a new initiative named PHP Programming Innovation Award. Despite the coincidence, this is not an April fouls joke.

The PHP Programming Innovation Award is meant to provide recognition to developers who make outstanding contributions to the PHP community.
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Hello,

Finally I have implemented a feature that addresses a long standing problem with the notification messages sent by the site.

As you may have noticed, whenever an author adds to a class or updates class files, the site sends out a notification message to the users who have previously downloaded the class, except for those that have unset the
user option about updated packages notification.
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Hello,

Another great year for PHP the community in general is about to end. This was true for the PHP Classes site community too.

The site community continues to grow at an increasing pace. This must mean that the site content contributed by hundreds of authors continues to please many users.

The site growth also reflects the effort of many users who helped to spread the word about the site, in particular those who participated in the "Friends of the PHP Classes site" initiative
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Hello,


* New server

As you may have noticed, there have been a few problems to access the site in the last days due to a migration that occurred to move the site to a new server.

Since the changes in the DNS records do not propagate worldwide immediately, your accesses to phpclasses.org domain may probably be redirected to the domain phpclasses.net .
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