# PHP SDK developer guide

> Explore Temporal PHP SDK guides to master features for Temporal Applications. Learn Workflows, Activities, Testing, Failure Detection, Messages, Observability, and more.

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## Install and get started

You can find detailed installation instructions for the PHP SDK in the [Quickstart](/develop/php/set-up-your-local-php).

There's also a short walkthrough of how to use the Temporal primitives (Activities, Workflows, and Workers) to build and run a Temporal application to get you up and running.

Once your local Temporal Service is set up, continue building with the following resources:

- [Activity Basics](/develop/php/activities/basics)
- [Workflow Basics](/develop/php/workflows/basics)
- [Start an Activity Execution](/develop/php/activities/execution)
- [Run Worker Processes](/develop/php/workers/run-worker-process)

From there, you can dive deeper into any of the Temporal primitives to start building Workflows that fit your use cases.

## [Workflows](/develop/php/workflows)

- [Workflow Basics](/develop/php/workflows/basics)
- [Child Workflows](/develop/php/workflows/child-workflows)
- [Continue-As-New](/develop/php/workflows/continue-as-new)
- [Cancellation](/develop/php/workflows/cancellation)
- [Timeouts](/develop/php/workflows/timeouts)
- [Message Passing](/develop/php/workflows/message-passing)
- [Schedules](/develop/php/workflows/schedules)
- [Timers](/develop/php/workflows/timers)
- [Side effects](/develop/php/workflows/side-effects)
- [Versioning](/develop/php/workflows/versioning)

## [Activities](/develop/php/activities)

- [Activity Basics](/develop/php/activities/basics)
- [Activity Execution](/develop/php/activities/execution)
- [Timeouts](/develop/php/activities/timeouts)
- [Asynchronous Activity Completion](/develop/php/activities/asynchronous-activity)

## [Workers](/develop/php/workers)

- [Run Worker processes](/develop/php/workers/run-worker-process)

## [Temporal Client](/develop/php/client)

- [Temporal Client](/develop/php/client/temporal-client)

## [Platform](/develop/php/platform)

- [Observability](/develop/php/platform/observability)
- [Enriching the UI](/develop/php/platform/enriching-ui)

## [Best practices](/develop/php/best-practices)

- [Testing](/develop/php/best-practices/testing-suite)
- [Debugging](/develop/php/best-practices/debugging)

## Temporal PHP Technical Resources

- [PHP SDK Quickstart - Setup Guide](/develop/php/set-up-your-local-php)
- [PHP API Documentation](https://php.temporal.io)
- [PHP SDK Code Samples](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-php)
- [PHP SDK GitHub](https://github.com/temporalio/sdk-php)

## Get Connected with the Temporal PHP Community

- [Temporal PHP Community Slack](https://temporalio.slack.com/archives/C01LK9FAMM0)
- [PHP SDK Forum](https://community.temporal.io/tag/php-sdk)