PHP Manual
PHP Manual
by
:
Mehdi
Achour
Friedhelm
Betz
Antony
Dovgal
Nuno
Lopes
Hannes
Magnusson
Georg
Richter
Damien
Seguy
Jakub
Vrana
And several others
2008-10-17
Edited By
:
Philip
Olson
©
1997-2008
the PHP Documentation Group
Copyright
PHP Manual
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
Predefined variables
Predefined Exceptions
Context options and parameters
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
Affecting PHP's Behaviour
Audio Formats Manipulation
Authentication Services
Calendar and Event Related Extensions
Command Line Specific Extensions
Compression and Archive Extensions
Credit Card Processing
Cryptography Extensions
Database Extensions
File System Related Extensions
Human Language and Character Encoding Support
Image Processing and Generation
Mail Related Extensions
Mathematical Extensions
Non-Text MIME Output
Process Control Extensions
Other Basic Extensions
Other Services
Search Engine Extensions
Server Specific Extensions
Session Extensions
Text Processing
Variable and Type Related Extensions
Web Services
Windows Only Extensions
XML Manipulation
PHP at the Core: A Hacker's Guide to the Zend Engine
Preface
The "counter" Extension - A Continuing Example
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 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 5.0.x
Debugging in PHP
Configure options
php.ini directives
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
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Function Index
PHP Manual