Solar Discussion and News

Here are listed Solar communication channels.

• Solar-talk | archives – Mailing list for general discussion about development and use of Solar.
• Solar-svn | archives – Notifications about commits to the Subversion repository.
• Solar-trac | archives – Notifications about the Solar issue tracker.
• IRC – our chat channel: #solarphp at freenode.org
• Solar Planet - latest trac changes and blog entries from Solar developers and contributors. Also available as a Google Toolbar Button (see below).

Add a Solar button to your browser! If you have the 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 Solar Trac updates and blog posts from Paul, Clay and Antti:

<?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">
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            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>

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. Check the Google Toolbar API for more details about how to create other Solar buttons and let us know about them.