Following up from a previous post of his that got lots of great feedback, Joshua Eichorn has posted his own thanks, not only for the responses to his own thoughts but to the PEAR community as a whole.

You'll be happy to know that were already working on many of your suggestions, Greg's post on the subject has some more details. I'll be sharing everyones comments with the rest of the PEAR group at our meeting on the 13th, so if anyone has a suggestion they haven't submitted yet thats your deadline.

The thing he's most excited about is the new mentoring program that will introduce new developers to the PEAR-ality of it all and get them involved with both the coding and the community.

DevShed continues their look at the creation of a PHP email program (as excerpted from the "Zend PHP Certification Study Guide") with this new tutorial focusing on the management of the emails themselves.

In this second part of a two-part article, you'll learn how to manage email headers when creating a PHP email program, attach a file to a message, and more.

In this part they cover some of the details about the structure of emails, how to add an attachment to an email (for both a normal file and images for an HTML email), as well as a mention of how email is delivered.

In this new post on Zak Greant's blog, he takes a look at some comments made about the eZ partner program he helped to develop and his responses to clear up some issues.

In a blog post yesterday, CMS expert and Optarian Seth Gottlieb wonders about the eZ partner program.

Gottlieb made comments about it seeming to be a good system, but not quite understanding how it would work when applied. Zak comes back with comments on the reasoning behind the program, how it works to benefit the partner, and how they see those partners, both in giving credit and their involvement with the projects.

For more information on the eZ partner program, check out this page on the eZ website.

As PHP Magazine notes, the schedule for this year's International PHP Conference is now available on their site.

The program for the annual International PHP Conference, scheduled to take place in Frankfurt, Germany from November 5 to 8, has been announced. The conference is divided into 'Power Workshop Days', 'Management Day' and two main conference days replete with technical sessions that will equip you with information on technology that you will need for your daily work.

Topics of some of the workshops at this year's conference include a look at MySQL 5.1 in depth, taking your first steps in PHP, and a look at PHP security. There are tons of other sessions in lots of different categories including: "General PHP", "PHP & Databases", "PHP Extensions", and "PHP-GTK". Several well-known speakers will be presenting such as Christopher Kunz, Derick Rethans, Tobias Schlitt and many more.

For complete information on the conference and to register yourself, head over to phpconference.com.

The program for this year's ApacheCon Europe has been published (as linked from on DynamicWebPages.de).

The conference will be from June 26th through the 30th in Dublin, Ireland. Registering before May 29th will get you an early bird discount of about 50-60 Euro. After that, prices start at 680 Euro and go up. You can get complete details on the conference and signup online at their site.