diff --git a/php/README-content.md b/php/README-content.md
index 33ecf95ef8bd..1d88bfdaf090 100644
--- a/php/README-content.md
+++ b/php/README-content.md
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 # What is PHP?
-PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. As of January 2013, PHP was installed on more than 240 million websites and 2.1 million web servers.
+
+PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development, but which can also
+be used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP can be added to straight HTML or
+it can be used with a variety of templating engines and web frameworks. PHP code is
+usually processed by an interpreter, which is either implemented as a native module on
+the web-server or as a common gateway interface (CGI).
 
 >[wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP)
 
 # How to use this image.
 
-## Commandline
+## With Command Line
 
-In the case that you have a PHP project run through the command line interface, you can do the following.
+For PHP projects run through the command line interface (CLI), you can do the following.
 
 ### Create a `Dockerfile` in your php project.
 
@@ -16,33 +21,38 @@ In the case that you have a PHP project run through the command line interface,
     WORKDIR /usr/src/myapp
     CMD [ "php", "./your-script.php" ]
 
-Then run the commands to build and run the docker image.
+Then, run the commands to build and run the Docker image.
 
     docker build -t my-php-app .
     docker run -it --rm --name my-running-app my-php-app
 
 ### Run a single PHP script.
 
-For many single file projects, it may not be convenient to write a `Dockerfile` for your project. In such cases, you can run a php script by using the php docker image directly.
+For many simple, single file projects, you may find it inconvenient to write a complete
+`Dockerfile`. In such cases, you can run a php script by using the php Docker image
+directly.
 
     docker run -it --rm --name my-running-script -v "$(pwd)":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp php:5.6-cli php your-script.php
 
 ## With Apache
 
-In the more common case, you will probably want to run PHP in conjunction with Apache httpd. Conveniently, there's a version of the php container that's packaged with the apache web server.
+More commonly, you will probably want to run PHP in conjunction with Apache httpd.
+Conveniently, there's a version of the php container that's packaged with the Apache web
+server.
 
 ### Create a `Dockerfile` in your php project.
 
     FROM php:5.6-apache
     COPY . /var/www/html
 
-Then run the commands to build and run the docker image.
+Then, run the commands to build and run the Docker image.
 
     docker build -t my-php-app .
     docker run -it --rm --name my-running-app my-php-app
 
 ### Without a Dockerfile
 
-If you don't want to include a `Dockerfile` in your project, then it is sufficient to do the following.
+If you don't want to include a `Dockerfile` in your project, it is sufficient to do the
+following.
 
     docker run -it --rm --name my-apache-php-app -v "$(pwd)":/var/www/html php:5.6-apache
diff --git a/php/README-short.txt b/php/README-short.txt
index 926b5df393fe..7525cf2ab90e 100644
--- a/php/README-short.txt
+++ b/php/README-short.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language.
+PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development, but which can also
+be used as a general-purpose programming language.
\ No newline at end of file