Online help

Moving up the food chain, the next most helpful thing is online help for PHP - to be able to jump to a reference in the PHP manual in a click or two means you are never far from an answer. More advanced editors even let you select functions from within your code, and they'll jump straight to the manual entry for them.

 

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