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PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source programming language. It is especially suited for web development. The unique thing about PHP is that it serves both beginners as well as experienced developers. It has a low barrier to entry so it is easy to ge...

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This section provides an overview of what cakephp is, and why a developer might want to use it. It should also mention any large subjects within cakephp, and link out to the related topics. Since the Documentation for cakephp is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topic...

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The PHP Manual provides both a functional reference and a language reference along with explanations of PHP's major features. The PHP Manual, unlike most languages' documentation, encourages PHP developers to add their own examples and notes to each page of the documentation. This topic explains con...

The mysqli interface is an improvement (it means "MySQL Improvement extension") of the mysql interface, which was deprecated in version 5.5 and is removed in version 7.0. The mysqli extension, or as it is sometimes known, the MySQL improved extension, was developed to take advantage of ne...

This section provides an overview of what phpstorm is, and why a developer might want to use it. It should also mention any large subjects within phpstorm, and link out to the related topics. Since the Documentation for phpstorm is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related to...

This section provides an overview of what composer-php is, and why a developer might want to use it. It should also mention any large subjects within composer-php, and link out to the related topics. Since the Documentation for composer-php is new, you may need to create initial versions of thos...

This section provides an overview of what phpunit is, and why a developer might want to use it. It should also mention any large subjects within phpunit, and link out to the related topics. Since the Documentation for phpunit is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topic...

Superglobals are built-in variables that are always available in all scopes. Several predefined variables in PHP are "superglobals", which means they are available in all scopes throughout a script. There is no need to do global $variable; to access them within functions or methods. ...

HTTP services normally run on port 80, but if you have some application installed like Skype which also utilizes port 80 then it won't start. In that case you need to change either its port or the port of the conflicting application. When done, restart the HTTP service.

PHP is an open source project, and as such, anyone is able to contribute to it. Broadly speaking, there are two ways to contribute to the PHP core: Bug fixing Feature additions Before contributing, however, it is important to understand how PHP versions are managed and released so that bug ...