PHP Manual

Stig Sæther Bakken
Alexander Aulbach
Egon Schmid
Jim Winstead
Lars Torben Wilson
Rasmus Lerdorf
Andrei Zmievski
Jouni Ahto

Edited by

Stig Sæther Bakken
Egon Schmid

21-03-2004

Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 the PHP Documentation Group

Table of Contents
Preface
I. Getting Started
1. Introduction
2. A simple tutorial
3. Installation
4. Runtime Configuration
II. Language Reference
5. Basic syntax
6. Types
7. Variables
8. Constants
9. Expressions
10. Operators
11. Control Structures
12. Functions
13. Classes and Objects
14. References Explained
III. Security
15. Security
IV. Features
16. HTTP authentication with PHP
17. Cookies
18. Handling file uploads
19. Using remote files
20. Connection handling
21. Persistent Database Connections
22. Safe Mode
23. Using PHP from the command line
V. 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
VIII. COM support functions for 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 XML functions
XXV. .NET functions
XXVI. Error Handling and Logging Functions
XXVII. FrontBase Functions
XXVIII. filePro functions
XXIX. Filesystem functions
XXX. Forms Data Format functions
XXXI. FriBiDi functions
XXXII. FTP functions
XXXIII. Function Handling functions
XXXIV. Gettext
XXXV. GMP functions
XXXVI. HTTP functions
XXXVII. Hyperwave functions
XXXVIII. Hyperwave API functions
XXXIX. iconv functions
XL. Image functions
XLI. IMAP, POP3 and NNTP functions
XLII. Informix functions
XLIII. InterBase functions
XLIV. Ingres II functions
XLV. IRC Gateway Functions
XLVI. PHP / Java Integration
XLVII. LDAP functions
XLVIII. Mail functions
XLIX. mailparse functions
L. Mathematical Functions
LI. Multi-Byte String Functions
LII. MCAL functions
LIII. Mcrypt Encryption Functions
LIV. MCVE Payment Functions
LV. Mhash Functions
LVI. Mimetype Functions
LVII. Microsoft SQL Server functions
LVIII. Ming functions for Flash
LIX. Miscellaneous functions
LX. mnoGoSearch Functions
LXI. mSQL functions
LXII. MySQL Functions
LXIII. Improved MySQL Extension
LXIV. Mohawk Software session handler functions
LXV. muscat functions
LXVI. Network Functions
LXVII. Ncurses terminal screen control functions
LXVIII. Lotus Notes functions
LXIX. NSAPI-specific Functions
LXX. Unified ODBC functions
LXXI. Object Aggregation/Composition Functions
LXXII. Oracle 8 functions
LXXIII. OpenSSL functions
LXXIV. Oracle functions
LXXV. Ovrimos SQL functions
LXXVI. Output Control Functions
LXXVII. Object property and method call overloading
LXXVIII. PDF functions
LXXIX. Verisign Payflow Pro functions
LXXX. PHP Options&Information
LXXXI. POSIX functions
LXXXII. PostgreSQL functions
LXXXIII. Process Control Functions
LXXXIV. Program Execution functions
LXXXV. Printer functions
LXXXVI. Pspell Functions
LXXXVII. GNU Readline
LXXXVIII. GNU Recode functions
LXXXIX. Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible)
XC. qtdom functions
XCI. Regular Expression Functions (POSIX Extended)
XCII. Semaphore, Shared Memory and IPC Functions
XCIII. SESAM database functions
XCIV. Session handling functions
XCV. Shared Memory Functions
XCVI. SQLite
XCVII. Shockwave Flash functions
XCVIII. SNMP functions
XCIX. Socket functions
C. Stream functions
CI. String functions
CII. Sybase functions
CIII. Tokenizer functions
CIV. URL Functions
CV. Variable Functions
CVI. vpopmail functions
CVII. W32api functions
CVIII. WDDX Functions
CIX. XML parser functions
CX. XML-RPC functions
CXI. XSLT functions
CXII. YAZ functions
CXIII. YP/NIS Functions
CXIV. Zip File Functions (Read Only Access)
CXV. Zlib Compression Functions
VI. PHP API: Interfaces for extension writers
24. Streams API for PHP Extension Authors
VII. FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
25. General Information
26. Mailing lists
27. Obtaining PHP
28. Database issues
29. Installation
30. Build Problems
31. Using PHP
32. PHP and HTML
33. PHP and COM
34. PHP and other languages
35. Migrating from PHP 2 to PHP 3
36. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4
37. Miscellaneous Questions
VIII. Appendixes
A. History of PHP and related projects
B. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4
C. Migrating from PHP/FI 2 to PHP 3
D. Debugging PHP
E. Extending PHP 3
F. List of Function Aliases
G. List of Reserved Words
H. List of Resource Types
I. List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers
J. List of Supported Socket Transports
K. PHP type comparison tables
L. List of Parser Tokens
M. About the manual
N. Function Index
O. Missing Stuff
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