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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

19-01-2002

Adapted for this site by

Wysardry

07-03-2002

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

Table of Contents

Preface

I. Getting Started

1. Introduction

2. Installation

3. Configuration

4. Security

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. Features

15. Error Handling

16. Creating and manipulating images

17. HTTP authentication with PHP

18. Cookies

19. Handling file uploads

20. Using remote files

21. Connection handling

22. Persistent Database Connections

23. Safe Mode

IV. 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. Crédit Mutuel CyberMUT functions

XV. Cyrus IMAP administration functions

XVI. Character type functions

XVII. Database (dbm-style) abstraction layer functions

XVIII. Date and Time functions

XIX. dBase functions

XX. DBM Functions

XXI. dbx functions

XXII. DB++ Functions

XXIII. Direct IO functions

XXIV. Directory functions

XXV. DOM XML functions

XXVI. .NET functions

XXVII. Error Handling and Logging Functions

XXVIII. FrontBase Functions

XXIX. filePro functions

XXX. Filesystem functions

XXXI. Forms Data Format functions

XXXII. FriBiDi functions

XXXIII. FTP functions

XXXIV. Function Handling functions

XXXV. Gettext

XXXVI. GMP functions

XXXVII. HTTP functions

XXXVIII. Hyperwave functions

XXXIX. ICAP Functions [deprecated]

XL. iconv functions

XLI. Image functions

XLII. IMAP, POP3 and NNTP functions

XLIII. Informix functions

XLIV. InterBase functions

XLV. Ingres II functions

XLVI. IRC Gateway Functions

XLVII. Java

XLVIII. LDAP functions

XLIX. Mail functions

L. mailparse functions

LI. Mathematical Functions

LII. Multi-Byte String Functions

LIII. MCAL functions

LIV. Mcrypt Encryption Functions

LV. Mhash Functions

LVI. Microsoft SQL Server functions

LVII. Ming functions for Flash

LVIII. Miscellaneous functions

LIX. mnoGoSearch Functions

LX. mSQL functions

LXI. MySQL Functions

LXII. Mohawk Software session handler functions

LXIII. muscat functions

LXIV. Network Functions

LXV. Ncurses terminal screen control functions

LXVI. Lotus Notes functions

LXVII. Unified ODBC functions

LXVIII. Oracle 8 functions

LXIX. OpenSSL functions

LXX. Oracle functions

LXXI. Ovrimos SQL functions

LXXII. Output Control Functions

LXXIII. Object property and method call overloading

LXXIV. PDF functions

LXXV. Verisign Payflow Pro functions

LXXVI. PHP options ∓ information

LXXVII. POSIX functions

LXXVIII. PostgreSQL functions

LXXIX. Program Execution functions

LXXX. Printer functions

LXXXI. Pspell Functions

LXXXII. GNU Readline

LXXXIII. GNU Recode functions

LXXXIV. Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible)

LXXXV. qtdom functions

LXXXVI. Regular Expression Functions (POSIX Extended)

LXXXVII. Satellite CORBA client extension

LXXXVIII. Semaphore and Shared Memory Functions

LXXXIX. SESAM database functions

XC. Session handling functions

XCI. Shared Memory Functions

XCII. Shockwave Flash functions

XCIII. SNMP functions

XCIV. Socket functions

XCV. String functions

XCVI. Sybase functions

XCVII. URL Functions

XCVIII. Variable Functions

XCIX. vpopmail functions

C. W32api functions

CI. WDDX Functions

CII. XML parser functions

CIII. XMLRPC functions

CIV. XSLT functions

CV. YAZ functions

CVI. YP/NIS Functions

CVII. Zip File Functions (Read Only Access)

CVIII. Zlib Compression Functions

V. FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

24. General Information

25. Mailing lists

26. Obtaining PHP

27. Database issues

28. Installation

29. Build Problems

30. Using PHP

31. PHP and HTML

32. PHP and COM

33. PHP and other languages

34. Migrating from PHP 2 to PHP 3

35. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4

36. Miscellaneous Questions

VI. Appendixes

A. History of PHP and related projects

B. Using PHP from the command line

C. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4

D. Migrating from PHP/FI 2 to PHP 3

E. Debugging PHP 3

F. Extending PHP 3

G. List of Function Aliases

H. List of Reserved Words

I. List of Resource Types

J. About the manual

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