what is php feeds and what I am hoping to achieve with it ?
 is the question that I closed off with yesterday and today I will explain the vision I had when I came up with the idea.

I read a lot of feeds daily and throughout the years I have built up a very big list of feed subscriptions from different technology sites that i try to keep up with on a day to day base, but the problem I encountered was that I had to go through lots of feeds daily to only find one relevant piece of news that was important to me and in this particular case php  news/articles/ tutorials is what I was interested in – Then friendfeed.com  was launched and I saw what I wanted but could not explain this whole time , the idea started to take form then which was to take all feed subscriptions and put them in one place and at the same time apply filtering to them so that I only see what I wanted with less effort ,  phpfeeds.co.za was then born.

So whats the plan now?
I want to expand phpfeeds.co.za from just offering links to a collection of php news,article and tutorials but to also have a directory of all the php frameworks , libraries and extensions available on the Internet .

1) PHP frameworks

  •   Directory Listing all known php frameworks available on the internet
  •   Allow developers who use the frameworks to rate / comment and review the frameworks instead of  the typical blogs you get comparing php frameworks which the blogs themselves are written in some cases by the same folks who built the frameworks.
  • Highlight framework relevant information about the availability of documentation , tutorials and forums where one can get help. crucial when you are in the market for a new framework 

2) PHP Libraries

  •  A categorized directory listing of all known php libraries especially ones which make a big difference e.g. Simple Pie, Nusoap , Swift mail and phpmailer just to mention a few.
  • Allow developers to rate / review and comment on their usefulness.
  • Add Tutorial sites that deal with these libraries

3) Extensions

  •  Link extensions available on pecl to sites that offer documentation and tutorials.
  •  Relevant Material about writing extensions.  

Thats is all i have for now and will update this when I think of more things to add but for now my plate if full. Tomorrow I will discuss the technology stack that I will be using on this project – stay tuned.

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