See https://github.com/php/web-php/#local-development
Alternatively, the generated files can also be fetched from your nearest mirror, see the following instructions
Setting up an unofficial mirror is described within the official mirror page. You can also build a mirror from the Git sources, which is especially helpful for those working on the PHP website.
Save the following shell script as phpweb.sh
Then execute ./phpweb.sh
And wait for ca 10 minutes.
#!/bin/sh mkdir ~/php.net cd ~/php.net # Checkout the manual base sources git clone https://github.com/php/doc-base.git # Checkout the english manual sources git clone https://github.com/php/doc-en.git en # Checkout PHD to build documentation git clone https://github.com/php/phd.git phd # Checkout the actual website (does not include /distribution, thats a gigantic separate repo) git clone https://github.com/php/web-php.git phpweb cd phpweb # Some files are pre-generated on master.php.net for various reasons (cd include && for i in countries.inc last_updated.inc mirrors.inc pregen-confs.inc pregen-events.inc pregen-news.inc; do wget "http://www.php.net/include/$i" -O $i; done;) (cd backend && for i in ip-to-country.db ip-to-country.idx; do wget "http://www.php.net/backend/$i" -O $i; done;) cd .. # Install PhD and build the manual php doc-base/configure.php php -dmemory_limit=2G phd/render.php --docbook doc-base/.manual.xml -P PHP -f php cd phpweb # Symlink the generated english documentations from our PhD build dir rm -rf manual/en (cd manual && ln -s `pwd`/../../output/php-web en) php -S localhost:8080 .router.php