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15. Sponsoring and Advertising in the PHP Classes site

Posted on: 2003-01-31

Hello,

As it was announced last month, the PHP Classes site is displaying paid banners in order to generate some income to help keep the site open by letting me continue work on developing and maintaining the site at full time.

The site now displays banners also in the alerts and newsletter messages like this to increase the income. However, the additional income that is generated is still not enough to justify keep working on the site at full time.
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14. 2002 developments in the PHP Classes site

Posted on: 2002-12-24

2002 was a productive year in the PHP Classes site. Despite many enhancements have been developed, many more are still to be done despite I am dedicating full time to the site.

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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

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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

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.

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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

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

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