Mailing Lists

There are many PHP-related mailing lists available on our server. Most of them are archived, and all of them are available as newsgroups on our news server. You can search some mailing lists right from this website from the search page or by using the search input box selecting the appropriate option on the top-right of every page.

There is an experimental web interface for the news server at http://news.php.net/, and there are also other archives provided by Marc.

Twitter

The PHP team maintains an official PHP.net account on twitter, @official_php, for those interested in following news and other announcements from the PHP project.

Mailing List Posting guidelines

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And make sure you have read our Mailinglist Rules.

General Mailing Lists

General mailing lists for PHP users	Moderated	Archive	Newsgroup	Normal	Digest
Announcements <php-announce@lists.php.net> Announcements of new PHP releases are sent to this very low-volume list	yes	n/a	yes http		n/a
General user list <php-general@lists.php.net> This is a high volume list for general PHP support; ask PHP questions here	no	yes	yes http
Windows PHP users list <php-windows@lists.php.net> Using PHP on Microsoft Windows	no	yes	yes http
Subject specific lists for PHP users	Moderated	Archive	Newsgroup	Normal	Digest
Installation issues and problems <php-install@lists.php.net> How to install PHP with particular configurations and servers	no	yes	yes http
Databases and PHP <php-db@lists.php.net> This list is for the discussion of PHP database topics	no	yes	yes http
Unicode and Internationalization <php-i18n@lists.php.net> Unicode support, Internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) issues and features	no	yes	yes http
PHP evangelism mailing list <php-evangelism@lists.php.net> A list for people interested in promoting PHP and learning good reasons to support PHP in the enterprise	yes	yes	yes http
PHP SOAP list <soap@lists.php.net> List for the SOAP developers	no	n/a	yes http		n/a
Non-English language mailing lists	Moderated	Archive	Newsgroup	Normal	Digest
Spanish PHP Mailing list <php-es@lists.php.net> List for Spanish speaking people interested in PHP	no	n/a	yes http		n/a

Internals Mailing Lists

PHP and Zend Engine internals lists	Moderated	Archive	Newsgroup	Normal	Digest
Internals list <internals@lists.php.net> A medium volume list for those who want to help out with the development of PHP	no	yes	yes http
Windows Internals list <internals-win@lists.php.net> A low volume list for those who want to help out with the development of PHP on Windows	no	n/a	yes http
Git commit list <php-cvs@lists.php.net> All commits to internals (php-src) and the Zend Engine are posted to this list automatically	yes	yes	yes http		n/a
Git pull requests <git-pulls@lists.php.net> Pull requests from Github	no	n/a	yes http		n/a
Quality Assurance list <php-qa@lists.php.net> List for the members of the PHP-QA Team	no	yes	yes http		n/a
General bugs <php-bugs@lists.php.net> General bug activity are posted here	no	n/a	yes http		n/a
PHP Standardization and interoperability list <standards@lists.php.net> Development of language standards	no	n/a	yes http		n/a
PHP internal website mailing lists	Moderated	Archive	Newsgroup	Normal	Digest
PHP php.net internal infrastructure discussion <php-webmaster@lists.php.net> List for discussing and maintaining the php.net web infrastructure. For general PHP support questions, see "General Mailing Lists" or the support page	no	n/a	yes http		n/a
PHP documentation mailing lists	Moderated	Archive	Newsgroup	Normal	Digest
Documentation discussion <phpdoc@lists.php.net> List for discussing the PHP documentation	no	yes	yes http		n/a
Documentation changes and commits <doc-cvs@lists.php.net> Changes to the documentation are posted here	yes	yes	yes http		n/a
Documentation bugs <doc-bugs@lists.php.net> Documentation bug activity (translations, sources, and build system) are posted here	yes	yes	yes http		n/a

Email:

You will be sent a confirmation mail at the address you wish to be subscribed or unsubscribed, and only added to the list after following the directions in that mail.

Warning: The PHP users mailing list gets close to 1500-2000 messages per month currently. Do the math. That translates to about 60 messages per day. If your mailbox can't handle this sort of traffic you might want to consider subscribing to the digest list instead (two messages per day), using the news server, or reading the mailing list using the archives.

Subscribe via Email

If you experience trouble subscribing via the form above, you may also subscribe by sending an email to the list server. To subscribe to any mailing list, send an email to listname-subscribe@lists.php.net (substituting the name of the list for listname — for example, php-general-subscribe@lists.php.net).

Mailing list options

All of the mailing lists hosted at lists.php.net are managed using the ezmlm-idx mailing list software. There are a variety of commands you can use to modify your subscription. Either send a message to php-whatever-help@lists.php.net (as in, php-general-help@lists.php.net) or you can view the commands for ezmlm here.