PHP Manual

Copyright © 1997-2004 the PHP Documentation Group

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 Mac OS X

5. Installation on Unix systems

6. Installation on Windows systems

7. Problems?

8. Runtime Configuration

III. Language Reference

9. Basic syntax

10. Types

11. Variables

12. Constants

13. Expressions

14. Operators

15. Control Structures

16. Functions

17. Classes and Objects (PHP 4)

18. Classes and Objects (PHP 5)

19. References Explained

IV. Security

20. Introduction

21. General considerations

22. Installed as CGI binary

23. Installed as an Apache module

24. Filesystem Security

25. Database Security

26. Error Reporting

27. Using Register Globals

28. User Submitted Data

29. Hiding PHP

30. Keeping Current

V. Features

31. HTTP authentication with PHP

32. Cookies

33. Dealing with XForms

34. Handling file uploads

35. Using remote files

36. Connection handling

37. Persistent Database Connections

38. Safe Mode

39. Using PHP from the command line

VI. Function Reference

I. Apache-specific Functions

II. Array Functions

III. Aspell functions [deprecated]

IV. BCMath Arbitrary Precision Mathematics Functions

V. Bzip2 Compression Functions

VI. Calendar Functions

VII. CCVS API Functions [deprecated]

VIII. COM and .Net (Windows)

IX. Class/Object Functions

X. ClibPDF Functions

XI. Crack Functions

XII. CURL, Client URL Library Functions

XIII. Cybercash Payment Functions

XIV. Cyrus IMAP administration Functions

XV. Character Type Functions

XVI. Database (dbm-style) Abstraction Layer Functions

XVII. Date and Time Functions

XVIII. dBase Functions

XIX. DBM Functions [deprecated]

XX. dbx Functions

XXI. DB++ Functions

XXII. Direct IO Functions

XXIII. Directory Functions

XXIV. DOM Functions

XXV. DOM XML Functions

XXVI. .NET Functions

XXVII. Error Handling and Logging Functions

XXVIII. Exif Functions

XXIX. File Alteration Monitor Functions

XXX. FrontBase Functions

XXXI. filePro Functions

XXXII. Filesystem Functions

XXXIII. Forms Data Format Functions

XXXIV. FriBiDi Functions

XXXV. FTP Functions

XXXVI. Function Handling Functions

XXXVII. Gettext

XXXVIII. GMP Functions

XXXIX. HTTP Functions

XL. Hyperwave Functions

XLI. Hyperwave API Functions

XLII. iconv Functions

XLIII. Image Functions

XLIV. IMAP, POP3 and NNTP Functions

XLV. Informix Functions

XLVI. Firebird/InterBase Functions

XLVII. ID3 Functions

XLVIII. Ingres II Functions

XLIX. IRC Gateway Functions

L. PHP / Java Integration

LI. LDAP Functions

LII. LZF Functions

LIII. Mail Functions

LIV. mailparse Functions

LV. Mathematical Functions

LVI. Multibyte String Functions

LVII. MCAL Functions

LVIII. Mcrypt Encryption Functions

LIX. MCVE Payment Functions

LX. Memcache Functions

LXI. Mhash Functions

LXII. Mimetype Functions

LXIII. Microsoft SQL Server Functions

LXIV. Ming functions for Flash

LXV. Miscellaneous Functions

LXVI. mnoGoSearch Functions

LXVII. mSQL Functions

LXVIII. MySQL Functions

LXIX. Improved MySQL Extension

LXX. Mohawk Software Session Handler Functions

LXXI. muscat Functions

LXXII. Network Functions

LXXIII. Ncurses Terminal Screen Control Functions

LXXIV. Lotus Notes Functions

LXXV. NSAPI-specific Functions

LXXVI. ODBC Functions (Unified)

LXXVII. Object Aggregation/Composition Functions

LXXVIII. Oracle 8 functions

LXXIX. OpenSSL Functions

LXXX. Oracle Functions

LXXXI. Ovrimos SQL Functions

LXXXII. Output Control Functions

LXXXIII. Object property and method call overloading

LXXXIV. PDF functions

LXXXV. Verisign Payflow Pro Functions

LXXXVI. PHP Options&Information

LXXXVII. POSIX Functions

LXXXVIII. PostgreSQL Functions

LXXXIX. Process Control Functions

XC. Program Execution Functions

XCI. Printer Functions

XCII. Pspell Functions

XCIII. GNU Readline

XCIV. GNU Recode Functions

XCV. Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible)

XCVI. qtdom Functions

XCVII. Regular Expression Functions (POSIX Extended)

XCVIII. Semaphore, Shared Memory and IPC Functions

XCIX. SESAM Database Functions

C. Session Handling Functions

CI. Shared Memory Functions

CII. SimpleXML functions

CIII. SOAP Functions

CIV. SQLite

CV. Shockwave Flash Functions

CVI. SNMP Functions

CVII. Socket Functions

CVIII. Standard PHP Library (SPL) Functions

CIX. Stream Functions

CX. String Functions

CXI. Sybase Functions

CXII. TCP Wrappers Functions

CXIII. Tidy Functions

CXIV. Tokenizer Functions

CXV. URL Functions

CXVI. Variable Functions

CXVII. vpopmail Functions

CXVIII. W32api Functions

CXIX. WDDX Functions

CXX. xattr Functions

CXXI. XML Parser Functions

CXXII. XML-RPC Functions

CXXIII. xdiff Functions

CXXIV. XSL functions

CXXV. XSLT Functions

CXXVI. YAZ Functions

CXXVII. YP/NIS Functions

CXXVIII. Zip File Functions (Read Only Access)

CXXIX. Zlib Compression Functions

VII. Zend API

40. Overview

41. Extension Possibilities

42. Source Layout

43. PHP's Automatic Build System

44. Creating Extensions

45. Using Extensions

46. Troubleshooting

47. Source Discussion

48. Accepting Arguments

49. Creating Variables

50. Duplicating Variable Contents: The Copy Constructor

51. Returning Values

52. Printing Information

53. Startup and Shutdown Functions

54. Calling User Functions

55. Initialization File Support

56. Where to Go from Here

57. Reference: Some Configuration Macros

58. API Macros

VIII. PHP API: Interfaces for extension writers

59. Streams API for PHP Extension Authors

IX. FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

60. General Information

61. Mailing lists

62. Obtaining PHP

63. Database issues

64. Installation

65. Build Problems

66. Using PHP

67. PHP and HTML

68. PHP and COM

69. PHP and other languages

70. Migrating from PHP 2 to PHP 3

71. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4

72. Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

73. Miscellaneous Questions

X. 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. Extending PHP 3

G. Configure options

H. List of core php.ini directives

I. List of Function Aliases

J. List of Reserved Words

K. List of Resource Types

L. List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers

M. List of Available Filters

N. List of Supported Socket Transports

O. PHP type comparison tables

P. List of Parser Tokens

Q. About the manual

R. Open Publication License

S. Function Index