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More documentation

• If you are interested in how the documentation is edited and translated, you should read the contribution guide.
• Documentation of PEAR and the various packages can be found on a separate server.
• You can still read a copy of the original PHP/FI 2.0 Manual on our site, which we only host for historical purposes. The same applies to the PHP 3 Manual.
• The PHP 4 and PHP 5 documentation has been removed from the manual, but archived versions still exist. For more information, please read Documentation for PHP 4 and Documentation for 5, respectively.