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. BBCode Functions

VIII. BCMath Arbitrary Precision Mathematics Functions

IX. PHP bytecode Compiler

X. Bzip2 Compression Functions

XI. Calendar Functions

XII. CCVS API Functions [deprecated]

XIII. Class/Object Functions

XIV. Classkit Functions

XV. ClibPDF Functions [deprecated]

XVI. COM and .Net (Windows)

XVII. Crack Functions

XVIII. Character Type Functions

XIX. CURL, Client URL Library Functions

XX. Cybercash Payment Functions

XXI. Credit Mutuel CyberMUT functions

XXII. Cyrus IMAP administration Functions

XXIII. Date and Time Functions

XXIV. DB++ Functions

XXV. Database (dbm-style) Abstraction Layer Functions

XXVI. dBase Functions

XXVII. DBM Functions [deprecated]

XXVIII. dbx Functions

XXIX. Direct IO Functions

XXX. Directory Functions

XXXI. DOM Functions

XXXII. DOM XML Functions

XXXIII. enchant Functions

XXXIV. Error Handling and Logging Functions

XXXV. Exif Functions

XXXVI. Expect Functions

XXXVII. File Alteration Monitor Functions

XXXVIII. Forms Data Format Functions

XXXIX. Fileinfo Functions

XL. filePro Functions

XLI. Filesystem Functions

XLII. Filter Functions

XLIII. Firebird/InterBase Functions

XLIV. Firebird/Interbase Functions (PDO_FIREBIRD)

XLV. FriBiDi Functions

XLVI. FrontBase Functions

XLVII. FTP Functions

XLVIII. Function Handling Functions

XLIX. GeoIP Functions

L. Gettext Functions

LI. GMP Functions

LII. gnupg Functions

LIII. Net_Gopher

LIV. Haru PDF Functions

LV. hash Functions

LVI. HTTP

LVII. Hyperwave Functions

LVIII. Hyperwave API Functions

LIX. i18n Functions

LX. IBM Functions (PDO_IBM)

LXI. IBM DB2, Cloudscape and Apache Derby Functions

LXII. iconv Functions

LXIII. ID3 Functions

LXIV. IIS Administration Functions

LXV. Image Functions

LXVI. Imagick Image Library

LXVII. IMAP, POP3 and NNTP Functions

LXVIII. Informix Functions

LXIX. Informix Functions (PDO_INFORMIX)

LXX. Ingres II Functions

LXXI. IRC Gateway Functions

LXXII. PHP / Java Integration

LXXIII. JSON Functions

LXXIV. KADM5

LXXV. LDAP Functions

LXXVI. libxml Functions

LXXVII. Lotus Notes Functions

LXXVIII. LZF Functions

LXXIX. Mail Functions

LXXX. Mailparse Functions

LXXXI. Mathematical Functions

LXXXII. MaxDB PHP Extension

LXXXIII. MCAL Functions

LXXXIV. Mcrypt Encryption Functions

LXXXV. MCVE (Monetra) Payment Functions

LXXXVI. Memcache Functions

LXXXVII. Mhash Functions

LXXXVIII. Mimetype Functions

LXXXIX. Ming functions for Flash

XC. Miscellaneous Functions

XCI. mnoGoSearch Functions

XCII. Microsoft SQL Server Functions

XCIII. Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase Functions (PDO_DBLIB)

XCIV. Mohawk Software Session Handler Functions

XCV. mSQL Functions

XCVI. Multibyte String Functions

XCVII. muscat Functions

XCVIII. MySQL Functions

XCIX. MySQL Functions (PDO_MYSQL)

C. MySQL Improved Extension

CI. Ncurses Terminal Screen Control Functions

CII. Network Functions

CIII. Newt Functions

CIV. NSAPI-specific Functions

CV. Object Aggregation/Composition Functions

CVI. Object property and method call overloading

CVII. Oracle Functions

CVIII. ODBC Functions (Unified)

CIX. ODBC and DB2 Functions (PDO_ODBC)

CX. oggvorbis

CXI. OpenAL Audio Bindings

CXII. OpenSSL Functions

CXIII. Oracle Functions [deprecated]

CXIV. Oracle Functions (PDO_OCI)

CXV. Output Control Functions

CXVI. Ovrimos SQL Functions

CXVII. Paradox File Access

CXVIII. Parsekit Functions

CXIX. Process Control Functions

CXX. Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible)

CXXI. PDF Functions

CXXII. PDO Functions

CXXIII. Phar archive stream and classes

CXXIV. PHP Options&Information

CXXV. POSIX Functions

CXXVI. Regular Expression Functions (POSIX Extended)

CXXVII. PostgreSQL Functions

CXXVIII. PostgreSQL Functions (PDO_PGSQL)

CXXIX. Printer Functions

CXXX. Program Execution Functions

CXXXI. PostScript document creation

CXXXII. Pspell Functions

CXXXIII. qtdom Functions

CXXXIV. Radius

CXXXV. Rar Functions

CXXXVI. GNU Readline

CXXXVII. GNU Recode Functions

CXXXVIII. RPM Header Reading Functions

CXXXIX. runkit Functions

CXL. SAM - Simple Asynchronous Messaging

CXLI. Satellite CORBA client extension [deprecated]

CXLII. SCA Functions

CXLIII. SDO Functions

CXLIV. SDO XML Data Access Service Functions

CXLV. SDO Relational Data Access Service Functions

CXLVI. Semaphore, Shared Memory and IPC Functions

CXLVII. SESAM Database Functions

CXLVIII. PostgreSQL Session Save Handler

CXLIX. Session Handling Functions

CL. Shared Memory Functions

CLI. SimpleXML functions

CLII. SNMP Functions

CLIII. SOAP Functions

CLIV. Socket Functions

CLV. Standard PHP Library (SPL) Functions

CLVI. SQLite Functions

CLVII. SQLite Functions (PDO_SQLITE)

CLVIII. Secure Shell2 Functions

CLIX. Statistics Functions

CLX. Stream Functions

CLXI. String Functions

CLXII. Subversion Functions

CLXIII. Shockwave Flash Functions

CLXIV. Swish Functions

CLXV. Sybase Functions

CLXVI. TCP Wrappers Functions

CLXVII. Tidy Functions

CLXVIII. Tokenizer Functions

CLXIX. Unicode Functions

CLXX. URL Functions

CLXXI. Variable Handling Functions

CLXXII. Verisign Payflow Pro Functions

CLXXIII. vpopmail Functions

CLXXIV. W32api Functions

CLXXV. WDDX Functions

CLXXVI. win32ps Functions

CLXXVII. win32service Functions

CLXXVIII. xattr Functions

CLXXIX. xdiff Functions

CLXXX. XML Parser Functions

CLXXXI. XML-RPC Functions

CLXXXII. XMLReader functions

CLXXXIII. XMLWriter Functions

CLXXXIV. XSL functions

CLXXXV. XSLT Functions

CLXXXVI. YAZ Functions

CLXXXVII. YP/NIS Functions

CLXXXVIII. Zip File Functions

CLXXXIX. Zlib Compression Functions

VII. PHP at the Core: A Hacker's Guide to the Zend Engine

44. The PHP 5 build system

45. Extension structure

46. Memory management

47. Working with variables

48. Writing functions

49. Working with classes and objects

50. Working with resources

51. Working with INI settings

52. Working with streams

53. PDO Driver How-To

54. Extension FAQs

55. Zend Engine 2 API reference

56. Zend Engine 1

57. The future: PHP 6 and Zend Engine 3

VIII. FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

58. General Information

59. Mailing lists

60. Obtaining PHP

61. Database issues

62. Installation FAQ

63. Build Problems

64. Using PHP

65. PHP and HTML

66. PHP and COM

67. PHP and other languages

68. Migrating from PHP 2 to PHP 3

69. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4

70. Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

71. Miscellaneous Questions

IX. Appendices

A. History of PHP and related projects

B. Migrating from PHP 5.1.x to PHP 5.2.x

C. Migrating from PHP 5.0.x to PHP 5.1.x

D. Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

E. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4

F. Migrating from PHP/FI 2 to PHP 3

G. Debugging PHP

H. Configure options

I. php.ini directives

J. List of Supported Timezones

K. Extension Categorization

L. List of Function Aliases

M. List of Reserved Words

N. List of Resource Types

O. List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers

P. List of Available Filters

Q. List of Supported Socket Transports

R. PHP type comparison tables

S. List of Parser Tokens

T. Userland Naming Guide

U. About the manual

V. Open Publication License

W. Function Index