Documentation

A good place to start is by skimming through the ever-growing list of frequently asked questions (with answers, of course). Then have a look at the rest of the online manual and other resources in the documentation section.

Community Support

For day-to-day help and troubleshooting, the broader PHP community is very active in a few places:

• Reddit: r/PHP look for the Weekly help threads that are pinned to the top for beginner and general questions.

• Stack Overflow: browse or ask questions using the php tag.

• Discord: there are many community-ran servers for chat-based help and discussion. Here are a couple of popular ones:
  • phpc.chat
  • PHP Developers
• IRC: real-time chat at Libera.Chat in #phpc. This channel is also bridged with Discord via phpc.chat.

User Groups & Events

Connect with local and regional PHP User Groups and find upcoming meetups, conferences, and training sessions:

• Find a user group near you on PHP.ug.
• Browse upcoming events on the event calendar.
• Want to list an event? Submit it here.

Archive (Legacy Resources)

Mailing Lists

Historically, a number of mailing lists were devoted to talking about PHP and related projects. While many are no longer active, you can still find their descriptions and archives on this page.

Newsgroups

There was a PHP language NNTP newsgroup at comp.lang.php, and many of our support mailing lists are also reflected onto our news server at news://news.php.net/. The server also has a read only web interface at https://news-web.php.net/.

Please note that these are legacy resources and primarily useful for historical reference.

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If you have problems setting up PHP or using some functionality, please ask your question on a support channel detailed above, the webmasters will not answer any such questions.