PHP Manual

Table of Contents

Preface

Authors and Contributors

I. Getting Started

1. Introduction

2. A simple tutorial

II. Installation and Configuration

3. General Installation Considerations

4. Installation on Unix systems

5. Installation on Mac OS X

6. Installation on Windows systems

7. Installation of PECL extensions

8. Problems?

9. Runtime Configuration

III. Language Reference

10. Basic syntax

11. Types

12. Variables

13. Constants

14. Expressions

15. Operators

16. Control Structures

17. Functions

18. Classes and Objects (PHP 4)

19. Classes and Objects (PHP 5)

20. Exceptions

21. References Explained

IV. Security

22. Introduction

23. General considerations

24. Installed as CGI binary

25. Installed as an Apache module

26. Filesystem Security

27. Database Security

28. Error Reporting

29. Using Register Globals

30. User Submitted Data

31. Magic Quotes

32. Hiding PHP

33. Keeping Current

V. Features

34. HTTP authentication with PHP

35. Cookies

36. Sessions

37. Dealing with XForms

38. Handling file uploads

39. Using remote files

40. Connection handling

41. Persistent Database Connections

42. Safe Mode

43. Using PHP from the command line

VI. Function Reference

I. .NET Functions

II. Apache-specific Functions

III. Alternative PHP Cache

IV. Advanced PHP debugger

V. Array Functions

VI. Aspell functions [deprecated]

VII. BCMath Arbitrary Precision Mathematics Functions

VIII. PHP bytecode Compiler

IX. Bzip2 Compression Functions

X. Calendar Functions

XI. CCVS API Functions [deprecated]

XII. Class/Object Functions

XIII. Classkit Functions

XIV. ClibPDF Functions

XV. COM and .Net (Windows)

XVI. Crack Functions

XVII. Character Type Functions

XVIII. CURL, Client URL Library Functions

XIX. Cybercash Payment Functions

XX. Credit Mutuel CyberMUT functions

XXI. Cyrus IMAP administration Functions

XXII. Date and Time Functions

XXIII. DB++ Functions

XXIV. Database (dbm-style) Abstraction Layer Functions

XXV. dBase Functions

XXVI. DBM Functions [deprecated]

XXVII. dbx Functions

XXVIII. Direct IO Functions

XXIX. Directory Functions

XXX. DOM Functions

XXXI. DOM XML Functions

XXXII. enchant Functions

XXXIII. Error Handling and Logging Functions

XXXIV. Exif Functions

XXXV. Expect Functions

XXXVI. File Alteration Monitor Functions

XXXVII. Forms Data Format Functions

XXXVIII. Fileinfo Functions

XXXIX. filePro Functions

XL. Filesystem Functions

XLI. Filter Functions

XLII. Firebird/InterBase Functions

XLIII. Firebird/Interbase Functions (PDO_FIREBIRD)

XLIV. FriBiDi Functions

XLV. FrontBase Functions

XLVI. FTP Functions

XLVII. Function Handling Functions

XLVIII. GeoIP Functions

XLIX. Gettext

L. GMP Functions

LI. gnupg Functions

LII. Net_Gopher

LIII. hash Functions

LIV. HTTP

LV. Hyperwave Functions

LVI. Hyperwave API Functions

LVII. IBM Functions (PDO_IBM)

LVIII. IBM DB2, Cloudscape and Apache Derby Functions

LIX. ICAP Functions [removed]

LX. iconv Functions

LXI. ID3 Functions

LXII. IIS Administration Functions

LXIII. Image Functions

LXIV. Image magick Functions

LXV. IMAP, POP3 and NNTP Functions

LXVI. Informix Functions

LXVII. Informix Functions (PDO_INFORMIX)

LXVIII. Ingres II Functions

LXIX. IRC Gateway Functions

LXX. PHP / Java Integration

LXXI. JSON Functions

LXXII. KADM5

LXXIII. LDAP Functions

LXXIV. libxml Functions

LXXV. Lotus Notes Functions

LXXVI. LZF Functions

LXXVII. Mail Functions

LXXVIII. mailparse Functions

LXXIX. Mathematical Functions

LXXX. MaxDB PHP Extension

LXXXI. MCAL Functions

LXXXII. Mcrypt Encryption Functions

LXXXIII. MCVE (Monetra) Payment Functions

LXXXIV. Memcache Functions

LXXXV. Mhash Functions

LXXXVI. Mimetype Functions

LXXXVII. Ming functions for Flash

LXXXVIII. Miscellaneous Functions

LXXXIX. mnoGoSearch Functions

XC. Microsoft SQL Server Functions

XCI. Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase Functions (PDO_DBLIB)

XCII. Mohawk Software Session Handler Functions

XCIII. mSQL Functions

XCIV. Multibyte String Functions

XCV. muscat Functions

XCVI. MySQL Functions

XCVII. MySQL Functions (PDO_MYSQL)

XCVIII. MySQL Improved Extension

XCIX. Ncurses Terminal Screen Control Functions

C. Network Functions

CI. Newt Functions

CII. NSAPI-specific Functions

CIII. Object Aggregation/Composition Functions

CIV. Object property and method call overloading

CV. Oracle Functions

CVI. ODBC Functions (Unified)

CVII. ODBC and DB2 Functions (PDO_ODBC)

CVIII. oggvorbis

CIX. OpenAL Audio Bindings

CX. OpenSSL Functions

CXI. Oracle Functions [deprecated]

CXII. Oracle Functions (PDO_OCI)

CXIII. Output Control Functions

CXIV. Ovrimos SQL Functions

CXV. Paradox File Access

CXVI. Parsekit Functions

CXVII. Process Control Functions

CXVIII. Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible)

CXIX. PDF Functions

CXX. PDO Functions

CXXI. Phar archive stream and classes

CXXII. PHP Options&Information

CXXIII. POSIX Functions

CXXIV. Regular Expression Functions (POSIX Extended)

CXXV. PostgreSQL Functions

CXXVI. PostgreSQL Functions (PDO_PGSQL)

CXXVII. Printer Functions

CXXVIII. Program Execution Functions

CXXIX. PostScript document creation

CXXX. Pspell Functions

CXXXI. qtdom Functions

CXXXII. Radius

CXXXIII. Rar Functions

CXXXIV. GNU Readline

CXXXV. GNU Recode Functions

CXXXVI. RPM Header Reading Functions

CXXXVII. runkit Functions

CXXXVIII. SAM - Simple Asynchronous Messaging

CXXXIX. Satellite CORBA client extension [deprecated]

CXL. SCA Functions

CXLI. SDO Functions

CXLII. SDO XML Data Access Service Functions

CXLIII. SDO Relational Data Access Service Functions

CXLIV. Semaphore, Shared Memory and IPC Functions

CXLV. SESAM Database Functions

CXLVI. PostgreSQL Session Save Handler

CXLVII. Session Handling Functions

CXLVIII. Shared Memory Functions

CXLIX. SimpleXML functions

CL. SNMP Functions

CLI. SOAP Functions

CLII. Socket Functions

CLIII. Standard PHP Library (SPL) Functions

CLIV. SQLite Functions

CLV. SQLite Functions (PDO_SQLITE)

CLVI. Secure Shell2 Functions

CLVII. Statistics Functions

CLVIII. Stream Functions

CLIX. String Functions

CLX. Shockwave Flash Functions

CLXI. Sybase Functions

CLXII. TCP Wrappers Functions

CLXIII. Tidy Functions

CLXIV. Tokenizer Functions

CLXV. Unicode Functions

CLXVI. URL Functions

CLXVII. Variable Handling Functions

CLXVIII. Verisign Payflow Pro Functions

CLXIX. vpopmail Functions

CLXX. W32api Functions

CLXXI. WDDX Functions

CLXXII. win32ps Functions

CLXXIII. win32service Functions

CLXXIV. xattr Functions

CLXXV. xdiff Functions

CLXXVI. XML Parser Functions

CLXXVII. XML-RPC Functions

CLXXVIII. XMLReader functions

CLXXIX. XMLWriter Functions

CLXXX. XSL functions

CLXXXI. XSLT Functions

CLXXXII. YAZ Functions

CLXXXIII. YP/NIS Functions

CLXXXIV. Zip File Functions

CLXXXV. Zlib Compression Functions

VII. PHP and Zend Engine Internals

44. Streams API for PHP Extension Authors

45. PDO Driver How-To

46. Zend API: Hacking the Core of PHP

47. TSRM API

48. Extending PHP 3

VIII. FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

49. General Information

50. Mailing lists

51. Obtaining PHP

52. Database issues

53. Installation FAQ

54. Build Problems

55. Using PHP

56. PHP and HTML

57. PHP and COM

58. PHP and other languages

59. Migrating from PHP 2 to PHP 3

60. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4

61. Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

62. Miscellaneous Questions

IX. Appendixes

A. History of PHP and related projects

B. Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

C. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4

D. Migrating from PHP/FI 2 to PHP 3

E. Debugging PHP

F. Configure options

G. php.ini directives

H. List of Supported Timezones

I. Extension Categorization

J. List of Function Aliases

K. List of Reserved Words

L. List of Resource Types

M. List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers

N. List of Available Filters

O. List of Supported Socket Transports

P. PHP type comparison tables

Q. List of Parser Tokens

R. Userland Naming Guide

S. About the manual

T. Open Publication License

U. Function Index