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NOTE: Due to the overwhelming lack of folks who seem to notice that there are guidelines for what should not be posted here, resulting in the need for us to moderate thousands of submissions, consider this our form of grabbing your attention. BEFORE YOU POST, READ THIS SECTION, PLEASE!

Welcome to the PHP Manual user note system

You may contribute notes to the PHP manual by adding comments in the form below, and, optionally your email address and/or name. And the note will appear under the documentation as a part of the manual after about an hour.

How to enter information

There is no need to obfuscate your email address, as we have a simple conversion in place to convert the @ signs and dots in your address. You may still want to include a part in the email address only understandable by humans, to make it spam protected, as our conversion can be performed the other way too. You may submit your email address as user@NOSPAM.example.com for example (which will be displayed as user at NOSPAM dot example dot com. Although note that we can only inform you of the removal of your note, if you use your real email address.

Note that HTML tags are not allowed in the posts, but the note formatting is preserved. URLs will be turned into clickable links, PHP code blocks enclosed in the PHP tags <?php and ?> will be source highlighted automatically. So always enclose PHP snippets in these tags. (Double-check that your note appears as you want during the preview. That's why it is there!)

The SPAM challenge requires numbers to written out in English, so, an appropriate answer may be nine but not 9.

User notes may be edited or deleted, and usually a note is deleted because of the following reasons:

• Bugs. Instead report a bug for this manual page to the bug database.
• Missing documentation. Also, report that as a bug.
• Support questions. See the support page for available options. In other words, do not ask questions within the user notes.
• References to other notes or authors. This is not a forum, so we neither encourage nor permit discussions here. Further, if a note is referenced directly, and that note is later removed or modified, it can cause confusion.
• Code collaboration or improvements. This is not to suggest that your code modification is not good, perhaps even great, but this just isn't the place to show it off. We don't even accept all original code submissions. Your best bet is to publish it on your blog or via another medium.
• Links to your website, blog, code, or a third-party website. We do, on occasion, permit the posting of famous websites (such as faqs.org or the MySQL manual), but links to other sites, no matter how well-intended, will likely be removed.
• Complaints that your notes keep getting deleted. Sometimes the content of your note may be fine, but we might just hate your face for no good reason. (More likely, though, you didn't bother to read this page, and you violated one of these rules.)
• Notes in languages other than English. 不 gach duine понимает el lenguaje जिसमें Sie sprechen.
• SPAM. This should go without saying, but apparently some folks out there just don't get it.
• Your disdain for PHP and/or its maintainers. Go learn FORTRAN instead.

Additional information

Please note that periodically the developers go through the notes and may incorporate information from them into the documentation. This means that any note submitted here becomes the property of the PHP Documentation Group and will be available under the same license as the documentation.

Your IP Address will be logged with the submitted note and made public on the PHP manual user notes mailing list. The IP address is logged as part of the notes moderation process, and won't be shown within the PHP manual itself.