====== Solar Discussion and News ======
Here are listed Solar communication channels.

  * [[http://mailman-mail3.webfaction.com/listinfo/solar-talk|Solar-talk]] | [[http://mailman-mail3.webfaction.com/pipermail/solar-talk/|archives]] -- Mailing list for general discussion about development and use of Solar.
  * [[http://lists.solarphp.com/mailman/listinfo/solar-svn|Solar-svn]] | [[http://lists.solarphp.com/pipermail/solar-svn/|archives]] -- Notifications about commits to the Subversion repository.
  * [[http://mail.killersoft.com/mailman/listinfo/solar-trac|Solar-trac]] | [[http://mail.killersoft.com/pipermail/solar-trac/|archives]] -- Notifications about the [[http://solarphp.com/trac/report|Solar issue tracker]].
  * IRC -- our chat channel: #solarphp at freenode.org
  * [[http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/07131449474794697975/label/solar|Solar Planet]] - latest trac changes and blog entries from Solar developers and contributors. Also available as a Google Toolbar Button (see below).

===== Solar Button at Google Toolbar =====

Add a Solar button to your browser! If you have the [[http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/|Google Toolbar]] installed (available for Firefox and Internet Explorer), it is easy to create a button with Solar related feeds and search options. Here's an example of a Solar button feed by [[http://solarphp.com/trac/|Solar Trac]] updates and blog posts from [[http://paul-m-jones.com/|Paul]], [[http://killersoft.com/randomstrings/|Clay]] and [[http://anttih.com/|Antti]]:

<code xml>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<custombuttons xmlns="http://toolbar.google.com/custombuttons/">
    <button>
        <title>Solar</title>
        <site>http://www.solarphp.com</site>
        <description>Solar Framework for PHP 5</description>
        <icon mode="base64" type="image/x-icon">
            R0lGODlhEAAQAOYAAAwAABIAANVzAHYmAAEAAP+uAP+wAJo+ALlVABkAAA4AAPORAEEGADwAANuG
            ACsAAA0AAEsJAD4AAN6IAH8jAH0hAMtuABsAAGsfANBtAJ9DAMZmALNQAN2HALJPAKBAAL9uAEUJ
            AFYRAM1pAEUIAL1LADkDANB8APaxAK1MAN+KAOGOAJY8APWTANd+AN6BABEAAPCoAFMBABMAAMl0
            APyhALdMANuDAIAmAHEVAMx9APSgAJ8vALtFALJSAM5pANx3APmXADYDAGkTACkAADQCADQAACcA
            ABYAAAIAAOGPAEYEAFcPAH8RALBOAM9qAG4hAHsiAD0FADMAAPq6AJQ4AL9cAP+0ALlMAPKrAPiY
            AOWWAIgsAN+HAOOSAAoAAEMIAIo2AMxkANFsAKNCAHMmAN+IAJM5ALxZAM51APi7ALxXAL9hANd1
            AP67AOyIALpWAFYIANNwAOKPAOicAMlmANd6AGkSAEwNADkEAGURAG8XAOKMAHAVAKM/AAAAACH5
            BAAAAAAALAAAAAAQABAAAAfHgH+Cg31+fn2DiYMwdzcuDl19AYqCQil2als6WSg+JopFdT0rNEYz
            ei9YI3mDChxkTVcUghBxRxpwk39DGQ9lBX4QiQ9Pe399Dgd/eEE1HwwKggRnHYVyA38AXFoGCx4R
            SX9QAoYC2H9fTE4LBm8ifxhthxMsBIMAJGgFCABhKohRfhBRJKGFhQYbcAgKsOaAjCWDpuywwcMK
            kkFSxABJ0wBAgioxSowBo4gBGzd0QJygwgdBCEp/EuTwomSOmQoXYBIyhEhRIAA7
        </icon>
        <feed refresh-interval="3600" refresh-menuitem="false">
            http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/07131449474794697975/label/solar
        </feed>
    </button>
</custombuttons>
</code>

Just save the XML above at (locations may vary; this is a windows example):
  
  C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Custom Buttons\filename.xml

And then it will available for activation at the Google Toolbar options. [[http://www.google.com/tools/toolbar/buttons/apis/howto_guide.html|Check the Google Toolbar API]] for more details about how to create other Solar buttons and let us know about them.