On the Developer Tutorials site today, there's a new article post from Michael Ross walking you through the installation and creation of an online newsletter with the Drupal content management system.

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.

In a new post to the his blog today, Stefan Mischook takes a look at what some of the most common components of a PHP web application include.

Understanding PHP theoretically, is only the beginning of actually truly knowing it. Once you sit down and start writing code, things will seem to magically clear up as you go along.

He gives examples of web application types and talks a bit about databases, a "key part of most web applications".

The Zend Developer Zone has posted this month's Zend Newsletter for those wanting to keep up on all things Zend-ish.

They have kindly allowed me to republish the most recent issue here for your enjoyment. If you want to read it on a regular basis though you are going to have to subscribe. So take a moment and head over to MyZend, login (or register) and on the preferences panel you'll find the checkbox to subscribe. Go ahead, we'll wait.

This edition is just a preview of all of the news that Zend provides each month on its activities, events, product updates, updates to the DevZone, and offers promotions you might want to be aware of.

As Cal mentions, though, you'll need to sign up to get future releases of the newsletter - they won't be posted over on the Zend Developer Zone.

On the NorthClick blog today, there's a quick little set of hints talking about the creation of a simple ("but solid") newsletter system for your website.

He breaks it down into the individual steps you'll need to follow:

• Use a Framwork
• Queue in the database
• Use SMTP
• Check Headers
• Test it

In the step involving the database, he gives the create script you'll need to get the table set up and working. It's not so much a step-by-step tutorial with all of the needed code as it is a general look at what steps to follow when rolling your own newsletter setup.

The Zend Developer Zone quickly points out that the latest eZ Systems newsletter has been released and it includes details on version 3.8.4, updated documentation, and a few other things.

This week's newsletter brings news about an updated distribution package for eZ publish 3.8.4, new documentation for eZ publish upgrades and new information about eZ platform development. The newsletter also includes the weekly forum watch and an update about the current bug fix status.

They cover the update to eZ publish, the "Upgrade" section in the documentation, new advancements concerning eZ platform, and some interesting discussions going on over in their forums.

The latest SecurityFocus Summary has been posted on the PHP Security Consortium site today, Issue #361.

Included in this issue are vulnerabilities for:

• SecurityImages Component Multiple Remote File Include Vulnerabilities
• Ajax Chat Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
• ATutor Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
• Coppermine Photo Gallery Theme.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability
• PHPAuction PHPAds_Path Variable Remote File Include Vulnerability
• myEvent Myevent.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

This is just a sampling of the issues reported, so head over to the full listing for the complete information.

The SecurityFocus summary on their site today for April 11th, 2006.

Software mentioned in this edition includes:

• PHPWebGallery
• JetPhoto
• PHPList
• ShopWeezle
• XBrite
• PHPKIT

There are several more mentioned besides those above, so be sure to check out the full report to see if any scripts you use are effected.

Starting this week, PHPDeveloper.org is going to offer a new service to its readers. In conjunction with the daily news posting (and resulting feed), we are now going to proide our readers with a weekly newsletter - a summary of all of the stories that were posted.

Signup is quick and easy - simply head over to our signup page and enter your email address and submit the form. That's all it takes to get the latest weekly PHP news delivered to your mailbox.

And, of course, PHPDeveloper.org never shares any information it gets from its users with outside sources, so you can rest assured that your email address will not be shared or sold off to anyone.

So, if you'd like to recieve email summaries of all of the great news, views, and community happenings that you see here each week delivered right to your email, head over and signup now!

The PHP Security Consortium has published more SecurityFocus Newsletters today:

• #320 - issues with phpMyAdmin, PHPWebSite, Complete PHP Counter, and Zeroblog
• #319 - issues with PHP-Fusion, MyBloggie, OSCommerce, and Utopia News
• #327 - issues with Drupal, PHPGreetz, PHPWordPress, NiceCoder iDesk, WebCalendar, and PHPAlbum (large list)
• #328 - issues with phpMyAdmin, Web4Future, PHPForumPro, Cars Portal Index, and MyBB

As always, the items mentioned above are only a small taste of the contents of the newsletters, so be sure to check them out in full to see if one of your applications is listed...

The PHP Security Consortium has posted thier latest SecurityFocus summary today - Issue #325.

PHP Applications covered in this issue include: Horde, PHPNuke, Cyphor Show.PHP, PHPWCMS, Mambo, PHP Easy Download, Interspire ArticleLive NX, PHP-Fusion, and PHPMyFAQ.

Of course, there are tons more that aren't listed here, so be sure to head over and check it out to be sure you and your applications are all safe...