diff --git a/MOVED b/MOVED
index d460794a0dec..5aa040bb265d 100644
--- a/MOVED
+++ b/MOVED
@@ -10901,3 +10901,9 @@ sysutils/gcombust||2018-12-21|Has expired: Uses obsolete glib12
 sysutils/xlogmaster||2018-12-21|Has expired: Uses obsolete glib12
 sysutils/mount.app||2018-12-21|Has expired: Uses obsolete glib12
 sysutils/bbapm||2018-12-21|Has expired: Uses obsolete glib12
+lang/php_doc||2018-12-21|Has expired: unmaintained and documents obsolete PHP < 5.6
+german/php_doc||2018-12-21|Has expired: unmaintained and documents obsolete PHP < 5.6
+polish/php_doc||2018-12-21|Has expired: unmaintained and documents obsolete PHP < 5.6
+portuguese/php_doc-br||2018-12-21|Has expired: unmaintained and documents obsolete PHP < 5.6
+french/php_doc||2018-12-21|Has expired: unmaintained and documents obsolete PHP < 5.6
+japanese/php_doc||2018-12-21|Has expired: unmaintained and documents obsolete PHP < 5.6
diff --git a/french/Makefile b/french/Makefile
index 0fe5a47eb5fd..1e91afb0da88 100644
--- a/french/Makefile
+++ b/french/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
     SUBDIR += libreoffice
     SUBDIR += med
     SUBDIR += mythes
-    SUBDIR += php_doc
     SUBDIR += trytond28_account_fr
     SUBDIR += verbiste
     SUBDIR += wordpress
diff --git a/french/php_doc/Makefile b/french/php_doc/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index c94195009a14..000000000000
--- a/french/php_doc/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Created by: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@FreeBSD.org>
-# $FreeBSD$
-
-CATEGORIES=	french lang
-PKGNAMEPREFIX=
-PHP_LANG=	fr
-MASTERDIR=	${.CURDIR}/../../lang/php_doc
-
-.include "${MASTERDIR}/Makefile"
diff --git a/german/Makefile b/german/Makefile
index 7918cc642099..106b1d0497c1 100644
--- a/german/Makefile
+++ b/german/Makefile
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
     SUBDIR += mediathekview
     SUBDIR += mythes
     SUBDIR += phone
-    SUBDIR += php_doc
     SUBDIR += schwobifyer
     SUBDIR += tipp10
     SUBDIR += trytond28_account_de_skr03
diff --git a/german/php_doc/Makefile b/german/php_doc/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c7ef74361db..000000000000
--- a/german/php_doc/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Created by: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@FreeBSD.org>
-# $FreeBSD$
-
-CATEGORIES=	german lang
-PKGNAMEPREFIX=
-PHP_LANG=	de
-MASTERDIR=	${.CURDIR}/../../lang/php_doc
-
-.include "${MASTERDIR}/Makefile"
diff --git a/japanese/Makefile b/japanese/Makefile
index af9d17cd8df1..4141e292d91d 100644
--- a/japanese/Makefile
+++ b/japanese/Makefile
@@ -220,7 +220,6 @@
     SUBDIR += p5-nkf
     SUBDIR += pejv-fpw
     SUBDIR += php5-mecab
-    SUBDIR += php_doc
     SUBDIR += plain2
     SUBDIR += plan
     SUBDIR += prn
diff --git a/japanese/php_doc/Makefile b/japanese/php_doc/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 730cbd3e985b..000000000000
--- a/japanese/php_doc/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Created by: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@FreeBSD.org>
-# $FreeBSD$
-
-CATEGORIES=	japanese lang
-PKGNAMEPREFIX=
-PHP_LANG=	ja
-MASTERDIR=	${.CURDIR}/../../lang/php_doc
-
-.include "${MASTERDIR}/Makefile"
diff --git a/lang/Makefile b/lang/Makefile
index 4e5d6a6e1ed9..2803b399546f 100644
--- a/lang/Makefile
+++ b/lang/Makefile
@@ -283,7 +283,6 @@
     SUBDIR += php72-extensions
     SUBDIR += php73
     SUBDIR += php73-extensions
-    SUBDIR += php_doc
     SUBDIR += picoc
     SUBDIR += pocl
     SUBDIR += polyml
diff --git a/lang/php_doc/Makefile b/lang/php_doc/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index ca38aea33c14..000000000000
--- a/lang/php_doc/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-# Created by: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@FreeBSD.org>
-# $FreeBSD$
-
-PORTNAME=	php_doc
-PORTVERSION?=	20131017
-PORTREVISION=	2
-CATEGORIES?=	lang
-MASTER_SITES=	http://www.mavetju.org/download/adopted/
-DISTNAME=	php_manual_${PHP_LANG}-${PORTVERSION}
-
-MAINTAINER=	ports@FreeBSD.org
-COMMENT?=	PHP documentation in HTML
-
-DEPRECATED=	unmaintained and documents obsolete PHP < 5.6
-EXPIRATION_DATE=	2018-12-20
-
-NO_BUILD=	yes
-NO_ARCH=	yes
-NO_WRKSUBDIR=	yes
-SLAVEDIRS=	french/php_doc \
-		german/php_doc \
-		japanese/php_doc \
-		polish/php_doc
-
-PHP_LANG?=	en
-PHP_LANGS?=	${PHP_HTML_CHUNKED} ${PHP_HTML_NORMAL}
-PHP_HTML_CHUNKED=	br de en fr ja pl ro tr
-PHPDOCDIR=	${PREFIX}/share/doc/php-${PHP_LANG}/
-PLIST=		${WRKDIR}/pkg-plist
-
-.for lang in ${PHP_HTML_NORMAL}
-.if ${PHP_LANG} == ${lang}
-WRK_SRC=	${WRKSRC}/html/
-.endif
-.endfor
-.for lang in ${PHP_HTML_CHUNKED}
-.if ${PHP_LANG} == ${lang}
-WRK_SRC=	${WRKSRC}/php-chunked-xhtml/
-.endif
-.endfor
-
-PKGNAMESUFFIX=	-${PHP_LANG}
-
-PLIST_SUB=	PHPDOCDIR=${PHPDOCDIR:S/^${PREFIX}\///}
-
-.if ${PHP_LANG} == en
-pre-fetch:
-	@${ECHO}
-	@${ECHO} "You may set PHP_LANG to"
-	@${ECHO} "	br (brazillian), de (german),"
-	@${ECHO} "	en (english), fr (french), ja (japanese),"
-	@${ECHO} "	pl (polish), ro (romian),"
-	@${ECHO} "	tr (turkey)"
-	@${ECHO} "to get a different language than the default one (english)."
-	@${ECHO}
-.endif
-
-pre-install:
-	${FIND} ${WRK_SRC} -type f ! -name '.*' ! -name pkg-plist | ${SED} -e "s,${WRK_SRC},%%PHPDOCDIR%%," > ${PLIST}
-
-do-install:
-	@[ -d "${WRK_SRC}" ] # ensure dir exists, else we can silently get an empty package
-	@${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PHPDOCDIR}
-	${FIND} ${WRK_SRC} -type d | ${SED} -e "s,${WRK_SRC},${STAGEDIR}${PHPDOCDIR}/," | ${XARGS} ${MKDIR}
-	for f in `${FIND} ${WRK_SRC} -type f ! -name '.*' ! -name pkg-plist | ${SED} -e 's,${WRK_SRC},,'`; do \
-		${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRK_SRC}/$$f ${STAGEDIR}${PHPDOCDIR}/$$f; \
-	done
-
-# this is for the maintainer only
-
-#
-# php_manual_fr.html.gz
-#
-# Download the files from http://au.php.net/distributions/manual/
-#
-makesum:
-	@> ${DISTINFO_FILE}
-.for l in ${PHP_LANGS}
-	@f=php_manual_${l}-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX}; \
-	${ECHO_CMD} makesum on $${f}; \
-	cd ${DISTDIR}; \
-	${SHA256} $${f} >> ${DISTINFO_FILE}; \
-	${ECHO_CMD} "SIZE ($${f}) = "`${LS} -ALln $${f} | ${AWK} '{print $$5}'` >> ${DISTINFO_FILE}
-.endfor
-
-fetchdist:
-.for l in ${PHP_LANGS:S/br/pt_BR/}
-	fetch -mv http://au2.php.net/distributions/manual/php_manual_${l}.tar.gz
-.endfor
-.for l in ${PHP_LANGS:S/br/pt_BR/}
-	if [ "${l}" = "pt_BR" ]; then \
-		${MV} php_manual_${l}.tar.gz ${DISTDIR}/php_manual_br-${PORTVERSION}.tar.gz; \
-	else \
-		${MV} php_manual_${l}.tar.gz ${DISTDIR}/php_manual_${l}-${PORTVERSION}.tar.gz; \
-	fi
-.endfor
-
-.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/lang/php_doc/distinfo b/lang/php_doc/distinfo
deleted file mode 100644
index 20df96ac7f07..000000000000
--- a/lang/php_doc/distinfo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-SHA256 (php_manual_br-20131017.tar.gz) = bcd4c9635783e129580582f3988fce182d69ceea2a01ecb0bcfa069ed447637e
-SIZE (php_manual_br-20131017.tar.gz) = 7530458
-SHA256 (php_manual_de-20131017.tar.gz) = e5517a971c38f9f6f392e5ebdec641d27e569c0a78d13e6ee8b9a6a0840ae58d
-SIZE (php_manual_de-20131017.tar.gz) = 8260815
-SHA256 (php_manual_en-20131017.tar.gz) = 7edb86ee73c4547a5b9b6adead2cdfe27e3153e088cea7333bbf9bb1c842c400
-SIZE (php_manual_en-20131017.tar.gz) = 8176181
-SHA256 (php_manual_fr-20131017.tar.gz) = 4114b2cf83e30cf2f1853a62e9ed21dfaebf228d92f9378bb759ffead90fb145
-SIZE (php_manual_fr-20131017.tar.gz) = 8726110
-SHA256 (php_manual_ja-20131017.tar.gz) = 9955518dccfd7a52be42b65fbacbd6d66b46212dfdb48eb509f781198bd1c9e4
-SIZE (php_manual_ja-20131017.tar.gz) = 8766537
-SHA256 (php_manual_pl-20131017.tar.gz) = 7322d7eb3ab738e48b4413c2f8d35dd208c8d1afccb4697eb627c186b9bc655e
-SIZE (php_manual_pl-20131017.tar.gz) = 7753987
-SHA256 (php_manual_ro-20131017.tar.gz) = 44f9e044a3046a45e64e36aab93d0fbe884603b9371a726b8aa901e52a81ba03
-SIZE (php_manual_ro-20131017.tar.gz) = 8234114
-SHA256 (php_manual_tr-20131017.tar.gz) = 1ce20fdbe958529d535b7385bcb054531411a4099fb2995cf7aee7010b1a8469
-SIZE (php_manual_tr-20131017.tar.gz) = 8073900
-SHA256 (php_manual_bg-20131017.tar.gz) = 7a339b54784d81aae11467448f9d336344df95d7e2ad7b2c925cd12b1027d617
-SIZE (php_manual_bg-20131017.tar.gz) = 76670
-SHA256 (php_manual_kr-20131017.tar.gz) = 7a339b54784d81aae11467448f9d336344df95d7e2ad7b2c925cd12b1027d617
-SIZE (php_manual_kr-20131017.tar.gz) = 76670
diff --git a/lang/php_doc/pkg-descr b/lang/php_doc/pkg-descr
deleted file mode 100644
index 443aae797e35..000000000000
--- a/lang/php_doc/pkg-descr
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-PHP documentation in HTML.
-
-If you feel that the documentation is too much out of sync with the
-files available from the URL below, feel free to contact the
-maintainer about it.
-
-WWW: http://www.php.net/download-docs.php
diff --git a/polish/Makefile b/polish/Makefile
index e7a74747365d..691a13316c16 100644
--- a/polish/Makefile
+++ b/polish/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
     SUBDIR += libreoffice
     SUBDIR += libtlen
     SUBDIR += mythes
-    SUBDIR += php_doc
     SUBDIR += qfaktury
     SUBDIR += qnapi
     SUBDIR += tleenx2
diff --git a/polish/php_doc/Makefile b/polish/php_doc/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index c11e0570d094..000000000000
--- a/polish/php_doc/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Created by: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@FreeBSD.org>
-# $FreeBSD$
-
-CATEGORIES=	polish lang
-PKGNAMEPREFIX=
-PHP_LANG=	pl
-MASTERDIR=	${.CURDIR}/../../lang/php_doc
-
-.include "${MASTERDIR}/Makefile"
diff --git a/portuguese/Makefile b/portuguese/Makefile
index 8d35345d215f..094fa532b4cd 100644
--- a/portuguese/Makefile
+++ b/portuguese/Makefile
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
     SUBDIR += libreoffice
     SUBDIR += libreoffice-pt_BR
     SUBDIR += mythes
-    SUBDIR += php_doc-br
     SUBDIR += webalizer-pt_BR
     SUBDIR += webalizer-pt_PT
 
diff --git a/portuguese/php_doc-br/Makefile b/portuguese/php_doc-br/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index ab489d059eb8..000000000000
--- a/portuguese/php_doc-br/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# $FreeBSD$
-
-CATEGORIES=	portuguese lang
-PKGNAMEPREFIX=
-
-PHP_LANG=	br
-MASTERDIR=	${.CURDIR}/../../lang/php_doc
-
-.include "${MASTERDIR}/Makefile"