Documentation

A good place to start is by skimming through the ever-growing FAQ. Then have a look at the online manual and other resources in the documentation section.

Reporting Bugs

If you can't resolve your problem from the available documentation or mailing list archives, and you think it might be a bug, a Bug Database has been established for tracking bugs and ensuring that all reported bugs get addressed. If you see a problem, please tell us so we can address it.

Mailing Lists

One of the best resources is a very friendly and helpful mailing lists. There are a couple of PHP-related mailing lists available. The main list for PHP3 is: php3@lists.php.net. You may subscribe to this list by sending a blank message to php3-subscribe@lists.php.net. Archives for this list can be found at: Warning: The PHP3 mailing list gets close to 2500 messages per month currently. Do the math. That translates to about 80 messages per day. If your mailbox can't handle this sort of traffic you might want to consider subscribing to the digest list instead, at php3-digest-subscribe@lists.php.net (two messages per day). You can also read the mailing list on the above web interface, or if you like reading things with a news reader, you can read it at news.netimages.com.

If you are interested in helping out with the development of PHP3 you should join the developers' list by sending an empty message to php-dev-subscribe@lists.php.net.

Sample Code

Looking for some more sample PHP scripts? Our links page page lists some archives of sample PHP code - great places to find many example scripts and useful functions, organized for your searching pleasure!

Getting the Latest Development Version

PHP is developed using CVS, so it's possible to obtain the latest development release at any time. Further instructions can be found in the web interface to the PHP 3.0 CVS tree.

Instant Resource Center

Otherwise known as IRC or Internet Relay Chat. Here you can usually find experienced PHP people sitting around doing nothing on the #php channel on EFNet. If you don't know what IRC is you can learn more about it at www.irchelp.org.