PHP Manual
PHP Manual
Mehdi
Achour
Friedhelm
Betz
Antony
Dovgal
Nuno
Lopes
Georg
Richter
Damien
Seguy
Jakub
Vrana
And several others
2007-11-25
Philip
Olson
©
1997-2007
the PHP Documentation Group
Copyright
Preface
Getting Started
Introduction
A simple tutorial
Installation and Configuration
General Installation Considerations
Installation on Unix systems
Installation on Mac OS X
Installation on Windows systems
Installation of PECL extensions
Problems?
Runtime Configuration
Language Reference
Basic syntax
Types
Variables
Constants
Expressions
Operators
Control Structures
Functions
Classes and Objects (PHP 4)
Classes and Objects (PHP 5)
Namespaces
Exceptions
References Explained
Security
Introduction
General considerations
Installed as CGI binary
Installed as an Apache module
Filesystem Security
Database Security
Error Reporting
Using Register Globals
User Submitted Data
Magic Quotes
Hiding PHP
Keeping Current
Features
HTTP authentication with PHP
Cookies
Sessions
Dealing with XForms
Handling file uploads
Using remote files
Connection handling
Persistent Database Connections
Safe Mode
Using PHP from the command line
Function Reference
.NET
— .NET Functions
Apache
— Apache-specific Functions
APC
— Alternative PHP Cache
APD
— Advanced PHP debugger
Arrays
— Array Functions
Aspell
— Aspell functions [deprecated]
BBCode
— BBCode Functions
BC math
— BCMath Arbitrary Precision Mathematics Functions
bcompiler
— PHP bytecode Compiler
Bzip2
— Bzip2 Compression Functions
Calendar
— Calendar Functions
CCVS
— CCVS API Functions [deprecated]
Classes/Objects
— Class/Object Functions
Classkit
— Classkit Functions
ClibPDF
— ClibPDF Functions [deprecated]
COM
— COM and .Net (Windows)
Crack
— Crack Functions
ctype
— Character Type Functions
CURL
— CURL, Client URL Library Functions
Cybercash
— Cybercash Payment Functions
CyberMUT
— Credit Mutuel CyberMUT functions
Cyrus IMAP
— Cyrus IMAP administration Functions
Date/Time
— Date and Time Functions
DB++
— DB++ Functions
dba
— Database (dbm-style) Abstraction Layer Functions
dBase
— dBase Functions
DBM
— DBM Functions [deprecated]
dbx
— dbx Functions
Direct IO
— Direct IO Functions
Directories
— Directory Functions
DOM
— DOM Functions
DOM XML
— DOM XML Functions
enchant
— enchant Functions
Errors and Logging
— Error Handling and Logging Functions
Exif
— Exif Functions
Expect
— Expect Functions
fam
— File Alteration Monitor Functions
FDF
— Forms Data Format Functions
Fileinfo
— Fileinfo Functions
filePro
— filePro Functions
Filesystem
— Filesystem Functions
Filter
— Filter Functions
Firebird/InterBase
— Firebird/InterBase Functions
Firebird/Interbase (PDO)
— Firebird/Interbase Functions (PDO_FIREBIRD)
FriBiDi
— FriBiDi Functions
FrontBase
— FrontBase Functions
FTP
— FTP Functions
Function handling
— Function Handling Functions
GeoIP
— GeoIP Functions
gettext
— Gettext Functions
GMP
— GMP Functions
gnupg
— gnupg Functions
gopher
— Net_Gopher
haru
— Haru PDF Functions
hash
— hash Functions
http
— HTTP
Hyperwave
— Hyperwave Functions
Hyperwave API
— Hyperwave API Functions
i18n
— i18n Functions
IBM (PDO)
— IBM Functions (PDO_IBM)
ibm_db2
— IBM DB2, Cloudscape and Apache Derby Functions
iconv
— iconv Functions
id3
— ID3 Functions
IIS Functions
— IIS Administration Functions
Image
— Image Functions
Imagick Image Library
IMAP
— IMAP, POP3 and NNTP Functions
Informix
— Informix Functions
Informix (PDO)
— Informix Functions (PDO_INFORMIX)
Ingres II
— Ingres II Functions
IRC Gateway
— IRC Gateway Functions
Java
— PHP / Java Integration
JSON
— JSON Functions
kadm5
— KADM5
LDAP
— LDAP Functions
libxml
— libxml Functions
Lotus Notes
— Lotus Notes Functions
LZF
— LZF Functions
Mail
— Mail Functions
Mailparse
— Mailparse Functions
Math
— Mathematical Functions
MaxDB
— MaxDB PHP Extension
MCAL
— MCAL Functions
mcrypt
— Mcrypt Encryption Functions
MCVE
— MCVE (Monetra) Payment Functions
Memcache
— Memcache Functions
mhash
— Mhash Functions
Mimetype
— Mimetype Functions
Ming (flash)
— Ming functions for Flash
Misc.
— Miscellaneous Functions
mnoGoSearch
— mnoGoSearch Functions
MS SQL Server
— Microsoft SQL Server Functions
MS SQL Server (PDO)
— Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase Functions (PDO_DBLIB)
Msession
— Mohawk Software Session Handler Functions
mSQL
— mSQL Functions
Multibyte String
— Multibyte String Functions
muscat
— muscat Functions
MySQL
— MySQL Functions
MySQL (PDO)
— MySQL Functions (PDO_MYSQL)
mysqli
— MySQL Improved Extension
Ncurses
— Ncurses Terminal Screen Control Functions
Network
— Network Functions
Newt
— Newt Functions
NSAPI
— NSAPI-specific Functions
Object Aggregation
— Object Aggregation/Composition Functions
Object overloading
— Object property and method call overloading
OCI8
— Oracle Functions
ODBC
— ODBC Functions (Unified)
ODBC and DB2 (PDO)
— ODBC and DB2 Functions (PDO_ODBC)
OGG/Vorbis
— oggvorbis
openal
— OpenAL Audio Bindings
OpenSSL
— OpenSSL Functions
Oracle
— Oracle Functions [deprecated]
Oracle (PDO)
— Oracle Functions (PDO_OCI)
Output Control
— Output Control Functions
OvrimosSQL
— Ovrimos SQL Functions
Paradox
— Paradox File Access
Parsekit
— Parsekit Functions
PCNTL
— Process Control Functions
PCRE
— Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible)
PDF
— PDF Functions
PDO
— PDO Functions
phar
— Phar archive stream and classes
PHP Options/Info
— PHP Options&Information
POSIX
— POSIX Functions
POSIX Regex
— Regular Expression Functions (POSIX Extended)
PostgreSQL
— PostgreSQL Functions
PostgreSQL (PDO)
— PostgreSQL Functions (PDO_PGSQL)
Printer
— Printer Functions
Program Execution
— Program Execution Functions
PS
— PostScript document creation
Pspell
— Pspell Functions
qtdom
— qtdom Functions
radius
— Radius
Rar
— Rar Functions
Readline
— GNU Readline
Recode
— GNU Recode Functions
RPMReader
— RPM Header Reading Functions
runkit
— runkit Functions
SAM
— SAM - Simple Asynchronous Messaging
Satellite
— Satellite CORBA client extension [deprecated]
SCA
— SCA Functions
SDO
— SDO Functions
SDO DAS XML
— SDO XML Data Access Service Functions
SDO-DAS-Relational
— SDO Relational Data Access Service Functions
Semaphore
— Semaphore, Shared Memory and IPC Functions
SESAM
— SESAM Database Functions
Session PgSQL
— PostgreSQL Session Save Handler
Sessions
— Session Handling Functions
shmop
— Shared Memory Functions
SimpleXML
— SimpleXML functions
SNMP
— SNMP Functions
SOAP
— SOAP Functions
Sockets
— Socket Functions
spl
— Standard PHP Library (SPL) Functions
SQLite
— SQLite Functions
SQLite (PDO)
— SQLite Functions (PDO_SQLITE)
ssh2
— Secure Shell2 Functions
Statistics
— Statistics Functions
Streams
— Stream Functions
Strings
— String Functions
SVN
— Subversion Functions
SWF
— Shockwave Flash Functions
swish
— Swish Functions
Sybase
— Sybase Functions
TCP Wrappers
— TCP Wrappers Functions
tidy
— Tidy Functions
Tokenizer
— Tokenizer Functions
Unicode
— Unicode Functions
URLs
— URL Functions
Variables handling
— Variable Handling Functions
Verisign Payflow Pro
— Verisign Payflow Pro Functions
vpopmail
— vpopmail Functions
W32api
— W32api Functions
WDDX
— WDDX Functions
win32ps
— win32ps Functions
win32service
— win32service Functions
xattr
— xattr Functions
xdiff
— xdiff Functions
XML
— XML Parser Functions
XML-RPC
— XML-RPC Functions
XMLReader
— XMLReader functions
XMLWriter
— XMLWriter Functions
XSL
— XSL functions
XSLT
— XSLT Functions
YAZ
— YAZ Functions
YP/NIS
— YP/NIS Functions
Zip
— Zip File Functions
Zlib
— Zlib Compression Functions
PHP at the Core: A Hacker's Guide to the Zend Engine
The PHP 5 build system
Extension structure
Memory management
Working with variables
Writing functions
Working with classes and objects
Working with resources
Working with INI settings
Working with streams
PDO Driver How-To
Extension FAQs
Zend Engine 2 API reference
Zend Engine 1
The future: PHP 6 and Zend Engine 3
FAQ
— FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
General Information
Mailing lists
Obtaining PHP
Database issues
Installation
Build Problems
Using PHP
PHP and HTML
PHP and COM
PHP and other languages
Migrating from PHP 2 to PHP 3
Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4
Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5
Miscellaneous Questions
Appendices
History of PHP and related projects
Migrating from PHP 5.1.x to PHP 5.2.x
Migrating from PHP 5.0.x to PHP 5.1.x
Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5
Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4
Migrating from PHP/FI 2 to PHP 3
Debugging PHP
Configure options
php.ini directives
List of Supported Timezones
Extension Categorization
List of Function Aliases
List of Reserved Words
List of Resource Types
List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers
List of Available Filters
List of Supported Socket Transports
PHP type comparison tables
List of Parser Tokens
Userland Naming Guide
About the manual
Open Publication License
Function Index
PHP Manual