A good place to start is by skimming through the ever-growing list offrequently asked questions (with answers, of course). Then have a look at the rest of the online manual and other resources in thedocumentation section.
For day-to-day help and troubleshooting, the broader PHP community is very active in a few places:
Reddit:r/PHP — look for the Weekly help threads that are pinned to the top for beginner and general questions.
Stack Overflow: browse or ask questions using thephp tag.
Connect with local and regional PHP User Groups and find upcoming meetups, conferences, and training sessions:
Historically, a number of mailing lists were devoted to talking about PHP and related projects. While many are no longer active, you can still find their descriptions and archives onthis page.
There was a PHP language NNTP newsgroup at comp.lang.php, and many of our support mailing lists are also reflected onto our news server atnews://news.php.net/. The server also has a read only web interface athttps://news-web.php.net/.
Please note that these are legacy resources and primarily useful for historical reference.
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