Pádraic Brady says the Patterns For PHP web site project has been re-activated. He has added a phpBB forum to facilitate easy feedback options to let the administrators discuss issues.

"Patterns For PHP is a new project to write and catalogue 'Design Pattern' descriptions and tutorials for PHP programmers", Pádraic Brady wrote in an earlier post. The web site is intended as a free online resource for design patterns with a focus on PHP implementations.

According to him, though the design masks it, the site is a MediaWiki installation. The intention is to allow the public to edit and contribute freely to its content under the 'GNU Free Documentation License'. Contributions may include design pattern descriptions and tutorials, articles demonstrating their use in varying scenarios, contributions on design pattern and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles, and whatever else a contributor believes would improve the resource.

Since the inception of the project, Brady and team have migrated to the MediaWiki application and adopted a fresh design, which improves readability. They have added entries for the Singleton, Registry, Factory, Abstract Factory, Strategy and Composite patterns. Brady and team aim to have a provisional list of some 30 Design Patterns, which they intend to see, covered in a medium term. In addition, while cataloguing 'Design Patterns' they aim to cover the principles and best practice which underpin such patterns and their implementation in PHP.

The new forums are public; so if anyone wishes to discuss the web site, it's future, and perhaps even to consider contributing pattern related articles and tutorials drop in here.