The project is hosted at https://github.com/vpxyz/php-quickhelp The latest version, and all the relevant information can be found there. First of all you must install jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/). Second run php-quickhelp-download-or-update. php-quickhelp can be used with or without company-php, company-phpactor and company-quickhelp. When used with company-php, company-phpactor and company-quickhelp (and company-quickhelp-terminal if you want to use with console), it works like a wrapper for company-php or company-phpactor. As an example, for company-phpactor, you can do (you must activate company-quickhelp-mode): (add-hook 'php-mode-hook (lambda () ;; .... other configs (require 'company-phpactor) (require 'php-quickhelp) (set (make-local-variable 'company-backends) '(php-quickhelp-company-phpactor company-web-html company-dabbrev-code company-files)) (company-mode))) It's possible to use php-quickhelp as eldoc backend (setq eldoc-documentation-function 'php-quickhelp-eldoc-func) The function php-quickhelp-at-point can be used to show in the minibuffer the documentation. For detail see: https://github.com/vpxyz/php-quickhelp