Well, many thanks go out to Jason (of PHPComplete.com) for the hacks that he has added to the PHPDN Unified Forums over the past few days. Among things on the list are:

• a HTML/PHP based "chat room" that would allow people to communicated real-time (for those too lazy to come over to #php on OPN)
• a "php tag" like the [code][/code] tags before, but with the syntax highlighting that PHP allows on it's code (this will help things out tons)
• and a stats mod that allows people to see how much people are participating in the fray (even which smilies are being used most!)

If you haven't taken a visit over to the PHP Developer's Network Unified Forums yet, you really should. There's tons of activity over there, and it's becoming one of the more widely used PHP forums that I know of.