With the popularity of the trackback feature in blogs these days, it only makes sense that Tobias Schlitt would work up this PEAR package - Services_Trackback.

The idea to Services_Trackback was born, when I wanted to implement trackbacks for PEARWeb (which is quite an uncommon idea, since trackbacks normally occur only in weblogs). The idea is, that if someone posts a blog entry about a PEAR package, he will usually link to the package(s) he's writing about. This link should (usually) result in a trackback send try to the given URL. Having those trackbacks registered on PEARWeb allows a comfortable way of having some kind of "link list" for every package, where interessting blog entries are linked.

Some of the functionality included in this package will be: Sending a trackback to a given URL, Autodiscovering of trackback URLs from websites, Stepwise strictness settings for URL matching, and much more.

So, if you're a registered PEAR dev and think this idea holds some merit, head on over, check it out, and cast your vote today. If you just want to check out the code, there's links to the source as well...