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Revamp support page structure: add relevant resources, move outdated to archive
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<div class="body">
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
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<li><a href="#mailing-lists">Mailing Lists</a></li>
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<li><a href="#newsgroups">Newsgroups</a></li>
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<li><a href="#user-groups">User Groups</a></li>
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<li><a href="#events-training">Events &amp; Training</a></li>
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<li><a href="#community-support">Community Support</a></li>
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<li><a href="#user-groups-events">User Groups &amp; Events</a></li>
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<li><a href="#irc">IRC</a></li>
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<li><a href="#archive">Archive (Legacy resources)</a></li>
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<!-- Purposefully no link to the webmasters -->
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href="/docs.php">documentation</a> section.
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<h2 id="mailing-lists">Mailing Lists</h2>
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<h2 id="community-support">Community Support</h2>
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<p>
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There are a number of mailing lists devoted to talking about PHP and related
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projects. <a href="mailing-lists.php">This list</a> describes them all, has
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links to searchable archives for all of the lists, and explains how to
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subscribe to the lists.
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For day-to-day help and troubleshooting, the broader PHP community is very active in a few places:
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<h2 id="newsgroups">Newsgroups</h2>
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<p>
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The PHP language newsgroup is comp.lang.php, available on any
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news server around the globe. In addition to this many of our mailing
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lists are also reflected onto the news server at
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<a href="news://news.php.net">news://news.php.net/</a>. The
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server also has a read only web interface at
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<a href="https://news-web.php.net/">https://news-web.php.net/</a>.
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<p>
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Mailing list messages are transfered to newsgroup posts and
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newsgroup posts are sent to the mailing lists. Please note
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that these newsgroups are only available on this server.
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<h2 id="user-groups">User Groups</h2>
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<li>
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<p><strong>Reddit:</strong> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/">r/PHP</a> — look for the Weekly help threads that are pinned to the top for beginner and general questions.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><strong>Stack Overflow:</strong> browse or ask questions using the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php">php tag</a>.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong>Discord:</strong> there are many community-ran servers for chat-based help and discussion. Here are a couple of popular ones:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://phpc.chat/">phpc.chat</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://discord.gg/php-developers-484326318851358720">PHP Developers</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="user-groups-events">User Groups &amp; Events</h2>
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Chances are that there is a User Group in your neighborhood, which are generally
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a great resource both for beginners and experienced PHP users.
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Check out the User Group listing on <a href="http://php.ug/">PHP.ug</a> to see if there
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is one close by.
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<h2 id="events-training">Events &amp; Training</h2>
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<p>
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A list of upcoming events (such as user group meetings and PHP training
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sessions) is included in the right-hand column of the front page, and
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on the <a href="/cal.php">event calendar page</a>. If you want to list
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an upcoming event, just fill out the form <a
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href="/submit-event.php">on this page</a>.
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Connect with local and regional PHP User Groups and find upcoming meetups, conferences, and training sessions:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Find a user group near you on <a href="http://php.ug/">PHP.ug</a>.</li>
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<li>Browse upcoming events on the <a href="/cal.php">event calendar</a>.</li>
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<li>Want to list an event? Submit it <a href="/submit-event.php">here</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="irc">Internet Relay Chat</h2>
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<a href="http://oftc.net">OFTC</a>).
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<h2 id="archive">Archive (Legacy resources)</h2>
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<h3 id="mailing-lists">Mailing Lists</h3>
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<p>
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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 on <a href="mailing-lists.php">this page</a>.
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<h3 id="newsgroups">Newsgroups</h3>
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<p>
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The PHP language newsgroup was comp.lang.php. Many of our mailing lists were also reflected onto the news server at
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<a href="news://news.php.net">news://news.php.net/</a>. The server also has a read only web interface at
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<a href="https://news-web.php.net/">https://news-web.php.net/</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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Please note that these are legacy resources and primarily useful for historical reference.
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</p>
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<h2 id="webmasters">PHP.net webmasters</h2>
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If you have a problem or suggestion <em>in connection with the PHP.net
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website or mirror sites</em>, <a href="/contact.php">please
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contact the webmasters</a>. If you have problems setting up PHP
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contact the webmasters</a>. <br> If you have problems setting up PHP
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or using some functionality, please ask your question on a support
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channel detailed above, the webmasters will not answer any such
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questions.

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