Downloading and Installing PHP Documentation

This section provides a tutorial example on how to download and install PHP documentation in HTML format.

To help learning the PHP language and built-in extensions, we should also download the PHP documentation:

1. Go to php.net/download-docs.php and download the "tar.gz" format of the "English" and "Many HTML files" version. You will get a file called "php_manual_en.tar.gz" of 11,269,511 bytes.

2. Unzip "php_manual_en.tar.gz" to \php\html folder.

3. Open \php\html\index.html in a Web browser and bookmark it.

PHP Documentation - HTML Version
PHP Documentation - HTML Version

Table of Contents

 About This Book

Introduction and Installation of PHP

 What Is PHP

 Downloading and Installing PHP 7.3 for Windows

 "php -help" - Command Line Options

 "php -m" - Built-in Modules

 "php -i" - PHP Engine Information

 php.ini - PHP Runtime Configuration

 Hello.php - My First PHP Script

 "php -a" - PHP Interactive Shell

Downloading and Installing PHP Documentation

 Managing PHP Engine and Modules on macOS

 Managing PHP Engine and Modules on CentOS

 MySQLi Module - Accessing MySQL Server

 DOM Module - Parsing HTML Documents

 GD Module - Manipulating Images and Pictures

 Zip Module - Managing ZIP Archive Files

 SOAP Module - Creating and Calling Web Services

 SOAP Module - Server Functions and Examples

 References

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