We had put the toolbar in order to give our readers a chance to makeup their mind and vote on articles after they have read it. But it was never really used.

So we have finally removed it. Do let us know what you think of it, or anything else that can make PHPCamp more useful to you.

We are listening.

Today PHPCamp.net turned one year old, I think it’s time to share some stats about us.

We now have more then 1200+ registered users, and 8587 user submitted articles and from the chart above you can see how traffic behaved over the year.

Thank you everyone for helping us grow.

We have already launched our Bookmarklet three months ago. Now we have a bunch of tools and buttons for you, including the enhanced Bookmarklet.

So what are the tools and buttons:

1. PHPCamp Button
2. Bookmarklet (Enhanced)
3. PHPCamp Widget

Let me describe ‘em one by one:

PHPCamp Button

Now your visitors can directly vote/submit your articles without coming to our site. Just add the following line of code:

<script src=”http://phpcamp.net/votebox”></script>

in your page and you will have a votebox available in your page for your users.

Bookmarklet (Enhanced)

Yes, the bookmarklet is more enhanced now. We have received some feedbacks from our campers saying that they must get the option to vote instead of the submit form, if the article is already submitted. Thanks for your feedbacks and it is implemented. What more? We have also given a credit to our camper who has helped us grow by submitting the article Cheers to our campers!!!

PHPCamp Widget

Now you can also show the boiling PHP articles on your blog or social networking site. All you have to do is add the following line of code:

<script type=”text/javascript” charset=”utf-8″ src=”http://phpcamp.net/widget”></script>

in your page.

And you will get something like:

To customize the votebox or widget visit: http://phpcamp.net/tools

Thanks campers for the updates. Keep posting

On popular demand of employers and campers we have released Jobs section on PHPCamp, this will allow employer to advertise their job opening and campers to grab good opportunities.

Camper or job seeker can apply on jobs from the job list on Jobs tab. Their resume and details will be send directly to respective employer.

And employers can post new job openings using Post Your Job tab with the job details for 15 or 30 days on payment of $49 USD or $99 USD.

New Bookmarklet

A month back we released our first bookmarklet which was very basic, so this month, Aman decided to take things in his hand and he created a shiny bookmarklet for us.

It now allows you to select the text in an article that you would like to set as description.

Drag the link above to your bookmarks toolbar, and see the look. Here is the teaser

Attach twitter handle

Yes, now you can show your twitter handle in you profile page, we hope it will help you get few more followers .

We thought that since campers are taking time to share articles, which get’s tweeted to PHPCamp’s twitter id, so why not put the id of the twitter users in the message, and let them share the glory of sharing the articles.

Get notified on comments

Now you will be notified whenever a camper leaves or shares his/her thought on articles that you have shared with community.

And, off-course we have update the the theme of this blog as well.

well folks this is for now, we will be adding few more features and continue to improve PHPCamp in coming weeks.

leave your feedback below, on twitter or facebook, we are listening.

After a long time we have again done bunch of feature release today on PHPCamp. Here is the list

Bookmarklet for sharing articles

We have now made it easy for submitting articles on PHPCamp, just drag this Add To PHPCamp on you bookmarks toolbar on your browser. Next time when you find an article that you want to share, just click on that bookmarklet, and it will fill the form for you(note you need to be logged it in for this to work).

Ability to vote articles on listing page

Last time when we had released we had asked on twitter for for feedback. One of the feedback that we got from skoop (on twitter @skoop) was

ability to vote without having to go to details page. Well now you can vote on articles on article list page itself.

Made it easier to promote your article on Twitter and Facebook

We did this because we wanted to make it easier for you to post links on Twitter and Facebook so that you could ask your friends and colleagues to vote for your articles on PHPCamp.

We also added this so that I can also easily promote the articles that i like

Added ‘Shared By’ to all our boiling articles

We thought we should pass the limelight to campers who share the articles on PHPCamp so we added, ‘shared by’ to all our boiling articles, that get posted on Twitter.

PHPC.in our own url shortner

Yes we now have our own url shortner(sorry that is not for public use to keep the maintenance low). Earlier we were using is.gd, I loved the simplicity of is.gd but they had few downtimes which resulted in problems in our services so we decided to quickly roll our own service, also we wanted to have some insight on the links as well.

Your ideas and suggestions are important to us, leave a comment below to let us know.

Well this is it for now, have fun.

P.S. Please help us in growing PHPCamp, check this for two simple steps.

If you like PHPCamp, and want to help it grow, then here are two things you can do.

1. You should become fan of PHPCamp on Facebook here.
2. If you have a blog/website then you can helps us by putting boiling article’s RSS feed on your site. You can find more about that here.

Additionally, you can also encourage your web developer friends to do the same.

Here are few ways to display Boiling Links from PHPcamp on your blog or website.

WordPress

1. Download and Install the Simple Feed List Plugin.
2. Active it.
3. Put following code somewhere on your template
   <?php if(function_exists(’simple_feed_list’)) simple_feed_list(’http://phpcamp.net/feed’,5,’No’); ?>

OR

You can use RSS Widget to your sidebar, Just use http://phpcamp.net/feed as your feed url.

Blogger

1. Go to “settings –> edit layout”
2. Click on “Add a Gadget” and scroll down to RSS gadget
3. Add that gadget
4. Set the feed url to http://phpcamp.net/feed
5. Save the template.

Joomla

1. Login to Administrator section of your website
2. Go to “Extensions –> Module manager”
3. Click on “New” button on top right corner
4. Select “Feed Display” and click “Next”
5. Set Title to “Boiling on PHPCamp” or whatever you like
6. Set Feed URL to http://phpcamp.net/feed
7. Click on the “Save” Button.

Drupal

I have not used drupal to comment, can a drupaler give us the step to do

update: As usual Abhishek points out how to do it in Drupal in the comment below

Others

Please wait few days we will be releasing our own widget to display “Boiling Links”.

Enjoy!!!

Today we are proud to say that we have released the new design that was in work for last few weeks.

check out http://phpcamp.net and let us know what you think.

One small improvement that i want to take your attention to is new Delicious button

that allows you to bookmark the original url directly to you Delicious account.

keep learning something new every day

Yesterday we released a small tweak to the system, based on request from some of our ‘Top Campers’, which allows them to easily tweet about the articles that they submit to PHPCamp.

We also believe that it would be useful to let your friends know about it, so that they can vote on it. It will give your submission a better chance to become popular.

We know this is far from perfect, and we will be improving it to make  experience more smooth.