diff --git a/templates/docs/php.html b/templates/docs/php.html
index b7c3bfbe..d975ff24 100644
--- a/templates/docs/php.html
+++ b/templates/docs/php.html
@@ -1,4 +1,23 @@
 <h1>PHP</h1>
 <p>Below is an example of making a HTTP request to SITE_NAME from PHP.</p>
-<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="x">file_get_contents(&#39;https://hc-ping.com/your-uuid-here&#39;);</span>
-</code></pre></div>
\ No newline at end of file
+<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="x">file_get_contents(&#39;PING_URL&#39;);</span>
+</code></pre></div>
+
+
+<p>If you would like to setup timeout and retry options, as discussed in the
+<a href="../reliability_tips/">reliability tips section</a>, there is a
+<a href="https://www.phpcurlclass.com/">curl package</a> available that lets you do that easily:</p>
+<p>```php startinline=True
+use Curl\Curl;</p>
+<p>$curl = new Curl();
+$curl-&gt;setRetry(20);
+$curl-&gt;setTimeout(5);
+$curl-&gt;get('PING_URL');
+```</p>
+<p>:::php
+use Curl\Curl;
+$curl = new Curl();
+$curl-&gt;setRetry(20);
+$curl-&gt;setTimeout(5);
+$curl-&gt;get('PING_URL');</p>
+<p>Note: this code never throws any exception.</p>
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diff --git a/templates/docs/php.md b/templates/docs/php.md
index 4efa19e9..b84da268 100644
--- a/templates/docs/php.md
+++ b/templates/docs/php.md
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@
 Below is an example of making a HTTP request to SITE_NAME from PHP.
 
 ```php
-file_get_contents('https://hc-ping.com/your-uuid-here');
+file_get_contents('PING_URL');
 ```
 
-If you'd like to setup timeout and retry options, as discussed in the [reliability tips section](../reliability_tips/), there is a [curl package](https://www.phpcurlclass.com/) available that lets you do that easily:
+If you would like to setup timeout and retry options, as discussed in the
+[reliability tips section](../reliability_tips/), there is a
+[curl package](https://www.phpcurlclass.com/) available that lets you do that easily:
 
 ```php
 use Curl\Curl;
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ use Curl\Curl;
 $curl = new Curl();
 $curl->setRetry(20);
 $curl->setTimeout(5);
-$curl->get('https://hc-ping.com/your-uuid-here');  
+$curl->get('PING_URL');
 ```
 
 Note: this code never throws any exception.