Online documentation

You can read the documentation online in various languages. The Documentation HOWTO, PEAR, Smarty and archive manuals are also available from our documentation page.

HTML Help viewers

Microsoft Windows has a reader built in.
Use xCHM or GnoCHM on Linux, *BSD and Solaris.
Chmox caters to Mac OS X users.

File sizes and dates

If you are using a capable browser, the file size and date will show up when you move the mouse above a link. If you cannot view this information, or would like to see all the information, you can click here to see all the file sizes and dates.

Download documentation

The PHP manual is available in a selection of languages and formats. Pick a language and format from the table below to start downloading.

Notes to read before you download

The English version should be considered the most accurate, since translations are based on that version. Most of the translations are not complete, and contain English parts.
The packaged HTML version of the manual (tar.gz) doesn't contain any directories, so all of the files will be dumped into your current working directory when you expand the archive unless the tool you use does otherwise.
If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer under Windows XP SP2 or later and you are going to download the documentation in CHM format, you should "unblock" the file after downloading it, by right-clicking on it and selecting the properties menu item. Then click on the 'Unblock' button. Failing to do this may lead to errors in the visualization of the file, due to a Microsoft bug.
The English version of the manual is downloadable in an Extended HTML Help format, and is also available for the ThoutReader.

	Single HTML file	Many HTML files	HTML Help file
English	html.gz Size: 2264Kb Date: 1 Feb 2007	tar.gz Size: 3343Kb Date: 1 Feb 2007	chm Size: 7262Kb Date: 24 Jan 2007
Arabic	html.gz	tar.gz
Brazilian Portuguese	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Chinese (Simplified)	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Chinese (Hong Kong Cantonese)	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Chinese (Traditional)	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Czech	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Danish	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Dutch	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Finnish	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
French	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
German	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Greek	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Hebrew			chm
Hungarian	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Italian	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Japanese	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Korean	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Polish	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Romanian	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Russian	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Slovak	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Spanish	html.gz	tar.gz	chm
Swedish	html.gz	tar.gz	chm