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 Unix systems

5. Installation on Mac OS X

6. Installation on Windows systems

7. Installation of PECL extensions

8. Problems?

9. Runtime Configuration

III. Language Reference

10. Basic syntax

11. Types

12. Variables

13. Constants

14. Expressions

15. Operators

16. Control Structures

17. Functions

18. Classes and Objects (PHP 4)

19. Classes and Objects (PHP 5)

20. Exceptions

21. References Explained

IV. Security

22. Introduction

23. General considerations

24. Installed as CGI binary

25. Installed as an Apache module

26. Filesystem Security

27. Database Security

28. Error Reporting

29. Using Register Globals

30. User Submitted Data

31. Magic Quotes

32. Hiding PHP

33. Keeping Current

V. Features

34. HTTP authentication with PHP

35. Cookies

36. Sessions

37. Dealing with XForms

38. Handling file uploads

39. Using remote files

40. Connection handling

41. Persistent Database Connections

42. Safe Mode

43. Using PHP from the command line

VI. Function Reference

I. .NET Functions

II. Apache-specific Functions

III. Alternative PHP Cache

IV. Advanced PHP debugger

V. Array Functions

VI. Aspell functions [deprecated]

VII. BCMath Arbitrary Precision Mathematics Functions

VIII. PHP bytecode Compiler

IX. Bzip2 Compression Functions

X. Calendar Functions

XI. CCVS API Functions [deprecated]

XII. Class/Object Functions

XIII. Classkit Functions

XIV. ClibPDF Functions

XV. COM and .Net (Windows)

XVI. Crack Functions

XVII. Character Type Functions

XVIII. CURL, Client URL Library Functions

XIX. Cybercash Payment Functions

XX. Credit Mutuel CyberMUT functions

XXI. Cyrus IMAP administration Functions

XXII. Date and Time Functions

XXIII. DB++ Functions

XXIV. Database (dbm-style) Abstraction Layer Functions

XXV. dBase Functions

XXVI. DBM Functions [deprecated]

XXVII. dbx Functions

XXVIII. Direct IO Functions

XXIX. Directory Functions

XXX. DOM Functions

XXXI. DOM XML Functions

XXXII. enchant Functions

XXXIII. Error Handling and Logging Functions

XXXIV. Exif Functions

XXXV. Expect Functions

XXXVI. File Alteration Monitor Functions

XXXVII. Forms Data Format Functions

XXXVIII. Fileinfo Functions

XXXIX. filePro Functions

XL. Filesystem Functions

XLI. Filter Functions

XLII. Firebird/InterBase Functions

XLIII. Firebird/Interbase Functions (PDO_FIREBIRD)

XLIV. FriBiDi Functions

XLV. FrontBase Functions

XLVI. FTP Functions

XLVII. Function Handling Functions

XLVIII. GeoIP Functions

XLIX. Gettext Functions

L. GMP Functions

LI. gnupg Functions

LII. Net_Gopher

LIII. Haru PDF Functions

LIV. hash Functions

LV. HTTP

LVI. Hyperwave Functions

LVII. Hyperwave API Functions

LVIII. i18n Functions

LIX. IBM Functions (PDO_IBM)

LX. IBM DB2, Cloudscape and Apache Derby Functions

LXI. ICAP Functions [removed]

LXII. iconv Functions

LXIII. ID3 Functions

LXIV. IIS Administration Functions

LXV. Image Functions

LXVI. Image magick Functions

LXVII. IMAP, POP3 and NNTP Functions

LXVIII. Informix Functions

LXIX. Informix Functions (PDO_INFORMIX)

LXX. Ingres II Functions

LXXI. IRC Gateway Functions

LXXII. PHP / Java Integration

LXXIII. JSON Functions

LXXIV. KADM5

LXXV. LDAP Functions

LXXVI. libxml Functions

LXXVII. Lotus Notes Functions

LXXVIII. LZF Functions

LXXIX. Mail Functions

LXXX. Mailparse Functions

LXXXI. Mathematical Functions

LXXXII. MaxDB PHP Extension

LXXXIII. MCAL Functions

LXXXIV. Mcrypt Encryption Functions

LXXXV. MCVE (Monetra) Payment Functions

LXXXVI. Memcache Functions

LXXXVII. Mhash Functions

LXXXVIII. Mimetype Functions

LXXXIX. Ming functions for Flash

XC. Miscellaneous Functions

XCI. mnoGoSearch Functions

XCII. Microsoft SQL Server Functions

XCIII. Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase Functions (PDO_DBLIB)

XCIV. Mohawk Software Session Handler Functions

XCV. mSQL Functions