doc-en VS php-docker

Wait, but for as much as just adding an example, isn't it much simpler? I mean, I can just navigate to https://github.com/php/doc-en/blob/master/reference/intl/messageformatter/format-message.xml, edit the existing example and then create a pull request.

But there is. Even better, there is a git repo. Just recently I saw a bad practice of echoing the error message out unconditionally and proposed a fix.

Pull requests allow people to add changes in a different branch of the code and ask to merge with the master branch. There can be discussion before anything is accepted. If you go back to the php example I linked, there is a small discussion.

The PHP docs are on GitHub: https://github.com/php/doc-en (other languages have their own doc- repos)

Well overhaul documentation is totally possible right now, no need to wait for 8.2. You are welcome to contribute in https://github.com/php/doc-en

It's now all on GitHub (both code and issues), with links at the top of every page (I think those currently still link to bugs.php.net which is actively monitored alongside GitHub issues)

fwiw when you made the comment, it wasn't documented that 8.0.0 removed it on the linked-to-page, thanks for making that obvious, just fixed it, https://github.com/php/doc-en/pull/1149

For reference, should have included the link: https://github.com/php/doc-en

Yes, the apache[0] image will do what you want

[0] https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/1c4b255f3e5ab610c...

That's the first I've heard of it, and I like it! I can't tell you the number of trips to php.net to look at argument order for a function. Is it haystack/needle, or needle/haystack? Of course it could turn into the same thing w/ argument names (is it whole_name or full_name?), but I'm going to use it.

Prepare to spend a fair bit of time reading and going back to phptherightway.com and php.net. I've also found this Tutorial from Envato Tuts+ to be quite good.

All I want to do with php is to have a recurring navbar on a website. I don't know what to do next. So far I've tried php.net's manual, w3scchool's tutorial and the set up part of first five recommended php tutorials on youtube. I have also spent hours on stackoverflow, which got me even more confused. The more I read, the less nothing makes sense to me and I don't know where the problem is.

I tried looking at the upgrade from 7.4 to 8.0 docs on php.net but I don't see anything regarding any changes to this function. Any ideas?

Does anyone else have trouble getting into php.net without some human verification page popping up first?

I've gone to php.net probably thousands of times over 15 years and have never seen this. If I saw it, like this user did, I'd be curious.

I would but cannot access php.net because of blue hardware

Not necessarily, a docker image can build from source. In fact, the official PHP docker image is built from source. See https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/master/8.2/alpine3.18/cli/Dockerfile

. php.net is the official documentation