I've had many request for access to the videos either on a DVD or in a downloadable format for viewing offline. So after many months of brushing it off, I now have the videos for you.

The download version will cost you about $20 USD and the DVD is around $30 USD. Of course, you're still free to watch them online as many times as you'd like.

There is a much better approach [than mass emails], and that is the use of a Web site that houses the newsletter and also limits reader access to paying subscribers. The ideal tool for creating such a site, is a content management system (CMS), such as Drupal, which is what we will be using in this tutorial. Specifically, we will explore how to use a forum for organizing the newsletter contents and allowing subscriber feedback, and also how to use a Drupal module for controlling subscriber access.

There's not really much in the way of actually installation help (that's what Drupal's documentation is for anyway), but he does talk about how it's initially set up, the subscription method and how to add an access-protected forum to the site to hold the newsletter information.

A coworker of mine has been working on a ajax enabled regex tool which lets you evaluate regex expressions in several languages (including PHP PCRE and PHP POSIX) with instant results.

The tool lets you put in the string you want to match again and the pattern you want to match with. The results are automatically populated below it, making it easy to fine-tune your expression to only what you want.

You know when you reach that point when you just don't remember where to configure your Zend Platform Events, how to set up your Tunneling, or what that Zend Core extension does? Well the documentation team at Zend have come up with a way to make all Zend product documentation as easily available as possible, so you can all benefit from our wisdom and experience.

The documentation center is a resource for all things Zendy - information on their products made searchable and easy to browse.

There're already thousands of web frameworks out there so I would sink into the ground if we really wrote another one. [...] Zend Framework looked like a nice solution. But what we probably liked most is that ZF allowed us to replace every component in the framework.

To this end, their "framework" isn't truly a new way of doing things - it's just a heavily modified version of the Zend Framework they've customized to fit their needs. Trevi is their own internal name for this release.

Zend needs, pretty much immediately, a part-time trainer who can do online trainings periodically (generally in two hour blocks starting either at 11am or 2pm EST). Must be able to speak intelligently and authoritatively on various PHP subjects you know and have the time to learn any subjects being taught you might be lacking in.

If you'd like to be considered, drop him an email at john at zend dot com with your contact information and any experience you might have and he'll get back with you.

Feel the difference:
With the old OpenJade/DocBook it took 40-60 minutes to build 'many htmls' version of the manual.
With PhD it takes less than 2 minutes to build all three formats ('phpweb', 'one big html' and 'many htmls').

You can grab the latest version of PhD to work on your very own docs either from their CVS repository or download them from the Docs section on the main PHP.net website.

Last time we set up our form, took the data from that form and emailed it to an email address of our choosing. This time we're going to take the same form data, put it in a database, read the total values and display them on a page.

You'll definitely need to check out part one before you try to tackle this one. They start with the creation of the tables you'll need (with some data to fill it out) and provide the code to handle the results of the submitted survey into those tables. They follow this up with a bit of output - a look at creating the "results" page for the user (or admin...whoever) to see the latest results from the survey's questions.

This series of online sessions offers you "24 hours of PHP knowledge, from professionals, to professionals". Topics covered in this series of talks are: Regular Expressions, XML and Webservices, Debugging using Xdebug, Zend Framework, [and more].

Instructors for the courses include Kore Nordmann, Christian Wenz, Stephan Schmidt and "other community known experts". The talks will be in 2 hour long online courses and will only be presented in German. This first time it's being offered, there's a discount for the signups - a 200 Euro discount. Check out the training page for more information.

How do we appropriately credit the kind souls who seemingly work anonymously within the php.net CVS repository? Not sure, but here are about 8 reasons why you should write for the official PHP manual.

Among the items on his list (longer than eight reasons) are things like "You'll own a cool @php.net email address", "You'll gain experience using DocBook and the related tools to create documentation", "You'll make new friends" and "You'll help make something better, something you use. It's good to use things that get better, right?"

Check out his full post for the rest of his reasons.