Currently the site offers a few services to premium subscribers. More services will be made available in the future and will be added to the existing subscriptions, for no extra cost.
Advertising can cause delays to the page loading and can distract users, so premium subscribers can access the site without any advertising in the pages.
Site newsletters also do not have any advertising in them.
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The PHP Classes site has a directory that lists PHP professionals available for hiring. Potential employers can browse the directory to find skilled professionals and hire them to work in their businesses.
Getting listed in the PHP professionals directory is free. However, premium subscribers have several benefits.
One of the benefits is that premium subscribers appear first in the listings of professionals, before all other non-premium subscribers.
Premium PHP professionals also appear marked with a special icon in the maps of professionals displayed in the directory pages.
Another benefit is that premium PHP professionals can expose their contact details like their e-mail addresses, business page URLs, phone numbers, etc..
Non-premium PHP professionals appear with their names and contact details obfuscated. Potential employers that want to hire them have to be premium subscribers to get the contact details of non-premium PHP professionals.
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Premium subscribers may tell the site to record one or more searches for later playback. The site records the search options and the search result pages.
Recorded searches can be replayed periodically every day or just once a week.
When a recorded search returns new pages that did not appear in the last time the search was replayed, the site sends a message to the user telling him about the new search result pages.
This way the premium users can keep track of new content about topics of their own interest without having to keep coming to the site searching for those topics manually.
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Whenever a package that does something especial is published, a site moderator flags it as notable. Moderators will also add a comment explaining why each package was considered notable.
Premium subscribers can receive e-mail alerts whenever a package was flagged as notable. The latest notable packages also appear listed on the site home page for premium subscribers.
This way premium subscribers can keep up to date regarding which are the hot packages in the site without having to visit it so often.
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Premium subscribers have access to exclusive forums where they can post questions about difficult PHP problems.
Premium subscribers may also act as specialist PHP developers and reply to those questions giving qualified advice to other users.
Optionally, the site can advertise that a premium subscriber is available to provide paid consulting off the site to other site users needing help from qualified professionals.
This way premium subscribers can get more clients and sell them consulting services.
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| Premium user | Regular user |
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| Get PHP job offers before other users | Yes, premium subscribers can see and apply to non-urgent job offers before regular users. | No, users may need to wait days or weeks until they can see and apply to job offers, if they are still available |
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| Post PHP jobs with discount | Yes, can post jobs paying a discounted value over the price for regular users | No |
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| See advertising | No | See advertising in the site pages and newsletters. Advertising causes page loading delays and may distract the users. |
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| Expose contacts in the PHP professionals directory | Yes, premium user contacts may be exposed to everybody | Expose contacts only to other users that are premium subscribers |
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| Recorded searches | Yes, premium subscribers can tell the site to record search keywords about topics of their interest. Recorded searches are repeated regularly. Newly found results are notified by e-mail. | No |
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| Receive notable packages notifications | Yes, a site moderator reviews the approved packages and adds a comment when a package that does something special is published. Premium subscribers may get e-mail notifications when a notable package is reviewed. | No |
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| Can ask difficult questions in PHP specialist forums | Yes, premium subscribers can ask questions in PHP specialist forums about problems that may be hard to solve. Other premium subscribers may also answer those questions and offer themselves to provide paid consultancy services. | No |
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