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English PHP documentation

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Open beginner issues: 10
Indexed issues: 283
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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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28 beginner-friendly issues open

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

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

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
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
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
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
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
Missing escape sequences from the page text Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

php/doc-en#4623 · Opened Apr 21, 2025
[Bug] Missing SNI_server_certs context option Open

bug Extension: openssl

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

php/doc-en#4573 · Opened Mar 31, 2025
[Docs] `php://input` is reusable Open

enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 65/100

php/doc-en#4555 · Opened Mar 22, 2025
function.preg-match does not reference that input string length is limited to pcre.backtrack_limit Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 62/100

php/doc-en#4526 · Opened Mar 10, 2025
Missing backwards-incompatible change in PHP 8 Open

bug Status: Verified

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

php/doc-en#4054 · Opened Nov 12, 2024
set_error_handler and set_exception_handler do not necessarily return a callable Open

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

php/doc-en#3421 · Opened May 28, 2024
Additional Information for References in Arrays Open

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

php/doc-en#2762 · Opened Sep 12, 2023
`ExecCGI` not mentioned in section 'Running PHP under FastCGI' Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

php/doc-en#2502 · Opened May 31, 2023
Inexact Code Example with Comparing Objects Open

Category: Engine QA

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

php/doc-en#2253 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 26, 2023
mb_strwidth behavior changed Open

Extension: mbstring

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

php/doc-en#1778 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 29, 2022
Small issues with mb_convert_* documentation Open

enhancement Extension: mbstring good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

php/doc-en#1308 · Opened Jan 7, 2022
Duplicate reference subpattern `(?|` also allows repetition of named subpatterns Open

enhancement Extension: pcre

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

php/doc-en#893 · Opened Sep 2, 2021

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