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English PHP documentation

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Open beginner issues: 10
Indexed issues: 283
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Merged PRs (30d): 55

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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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283 open issues indexed

SNMP improvements Open

enhancement Extension: snmp

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

php/doc-en#5852 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Missing Information in Manual (function error_get_last); Incorrect ArrayShape Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

php/doc-en#5848 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Document difference between error and exception Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

php/doc-en#5816 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Files still using &warn.undocumented.func; Open

help wanted

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

php/doc-en#5786 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
get_extension_funcs extension parameter does not need to be lowercase Open

bug

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php/doc-en#5765 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 16, 2026
Document SensitiveParameter attribute in callbacks Open

enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100

php/doc-en#5734 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Mysqli option says "1" instead of "MYSQLI_OPT_COMPRESS" Open

8.6 Extension: mysqli

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 82/100

php/doc-en#5727 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2026
DateTimeImmutable::createFromTimestamp() uses UTC timezone Open

enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

php/doc-en#5651 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 3, 2026
Document iconv implementation quirks Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

php/doc-en#5646 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 2, 2026
Undocumented behaviour change in 8.5: `self`/`parent` now accepted in intersection types Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

php/doc-en#5639 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 29, 2026
All links to Windows downloads of PIElead to '404 page not found' Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

php/doc-en#5638 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2026
SoapClient - constructor - stream_context - Info regarding headers being ignored is probably misleading Open

enhancement Extension: soap

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

php/doc-en#5636 · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Clarify the difference between GRAPHEME_EXTR_COUNT and size-limited grapheme_extract() Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

php/doc-en#5565 · Opened May 17, 2026
Add an example for locale collation strength in grapheme_strpos() Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

php/doc-en#5560 · 1 comment · Opened May 15, 2026
Document Unicode locale extension key `ks` in Collator::setStrength Open

enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

php/doc-en#5559 · 1 comment · Opened May 15, 2026
Add grapheme_strlen() example for invalid UTF-8 input Open

enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 58/100

php/doc-en#5556 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 15, 2026
Incomplete statement about the Null Coalescing Operator Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

php/doc-en#5526 · Opened May 1, 2026
Wrong error message regarding HEREDOC indentation level limits Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

php/doc-en#5501 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2026
Strange default parameters in callback signature for set_error_handler Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

php/doc-en#5436 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 22, 2026
Simplify string function classification and move locale discussion to a separate paragraph Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

php/doc-en#5433 · Opened Mar 21, 2026
Strings: clarify the structure of “Details of the String Type” Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

php/doc-en#5432 · Opened Mar 21, 2026
Clarify the opening sentence of the string type page Open

enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

php/doc-en#5431 · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Ondemand and Max_Children Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

php/doc-en#5421 · Opened Mar 11, 2026
Document "\x{...}" and "\N{U+...}" Unicode escapes in PCRE patterns Open

enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

php/doc-en#5404 · Opened Mar 5, 2026
A "never" function is checked at compile time and runtime, and may still throw Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

php/doc-en#5390 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 26, 2026
A "void" function is only checked at compile time, and may still throw Open

enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

php/doc-en#5389 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 26, 2026
"void" and "never" are not atomic types Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

php/doc-en#5388 · Opened Feb 26, 2026
Clarify require might be preferable over require_once for autoloaders Open

bug Status: Needs Triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

php/doc-en#5245 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 1, 2026
class_exists throws on missing extends/implements and fatal on missing trait Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 58/100

php/doc-en#5236 · Opened Feb 1, 2026
QA: Meta-issue: Bulk XML markup fixes (wrapping `<para>` and conversion to `<simpara>` tags) Open

QA

php/doc-en#5155 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 18, 2026
isset() on hooks doesn't respect backing value Open

bug Status: Needs Triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

php/doc-en#5040 · 6 comments · Opened Dec 13, 2025
Installing default build on 8 core Mac Mini with Apple M1 processor Open

php/doc-en#5018 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 25, 2025
OCI8 marked as included in PHP 8.x, but actually unbundled in PHP 8.4 Open

bug Extension: oci8

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

php/doc-en#4889 · Opened Oct 2, 2025
PHP 8.5 documentation tracker Open

good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

php/doc-en#4886 · 9 comments · Opened Sep 26, 2025
Clarification on passing the session id. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

php/doc-en#4849 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 26, 2025
Bug: Pie chart Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

php/doc-en#4815 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2025
Clarify what warnings/expressions are suppressed by isset/?? suppress Open

bug Status: Needs Triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

php/doc-en#4838 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 8, 2025
Enable More Examples for WASM Open

Category: Documentation enhancement good first issue mahoosive-change

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

php/doc-en#4799 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Add an example where the user string is a hash calculated from user submitted data Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

php/doc-en#4771 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 11, 2025
System call functions sometimes treat the last line in a multi-line command as a separate command Open

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php/doc-en#4769 · Opened Jul 9, 2025
Improve documentation by renaming needle and haystack arguments Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

php/doc-en#4758 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 4, 2025
[IntlDateFormatter::RELATIVE_*] undocumented feature: day before yesterday Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

php/doc-en#4729 · Opened Jun 13, 2025
Add note for WeakMap::offsetExists behavoir for NULL values Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

php/doc-en#4727 · Opened Jun 11, 2025
`array_column()` should handle not-set column name Open

Feature Status: Needs Triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

php/doc-en#4719 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Type inconsistency between the filter_var function and it's callback on the $value parameter. Open

bug Extension: filter

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

php/doc-en#4726 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 4, 2025
Docs of ReflectionAttribute::IS_INSTANCEOF is useless Open

bug Extension: reflection

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

php/doc-en#4705 · Opened May 25, 2025
Issue with ReflectionAttribute::getTaget(), PHP Version 8.4.6, Win x64 Open

bug Extension: reflection

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

php/doc-en#4698 · Opened May 23, 2025
Options not accurate for Dom\HTMLDocument Open

Extension: dom

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 58/100

php/doc-en#4693 · 1 comment · Opened May 21, 2025
Documentation of operators should include the info about which PHP versions support them Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

php/doc-en#4677 · 2 comments · Opened May 14, 2025
openssl_csr_export($csr, $csrout, true); : issue Open

Extension: openssl

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

php/doc-en#4665 · 2 comments · Opened May 8, 2025

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