PHP5 Manual

PHP5 Manual is the newest version of the preferred language for rapidly creating dynamic Web page content. While its main use is as a cross-platform, HTML-embedded, server-side Web scripting language, it now works equally well when creating multi-tiered applications or XML-based applications as well as Web applications. This book teaches you the features and functionality of PHP5, from installing and configuring it to designing and constructing complex data-driven Web sites.

As you proceed, you will build a number of fully functional applications. You'll be introduced to basic programming logic, relational databases, OOP, PEAR, GTK, MSI, CLI, SQLite, and more. When you're finished, you will understand how to create, test, debug, and put your applications to work in the real world.

What you will learn from this book
The fundamentals of object-oriented programming in PHP5
How to write PHP5 applications that run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems
Why PHP5 works effectively in small to enterprise-level applications
Error handling with try/catch
Data manipulation in MySQL using PHP
How to build practical applications such as an online text editor, a Web-based e-mail application, and an object-oriented contact manager application
Command-line scripting and GUI application development
Effective methods of maintaining and organizing your code, and more

Who this book is for
This book is for beginning programmers as well as experienced developers who want to learn what is possible with the latest version of PHP.

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. Error Handling and Logging Functions

XXXIII. Exif Functions

XXXIV. Expect Functions

XXXV. File Alteration Monitor Functions

XXXVI. Forms Data Format Functions

XXXVII. Fileinfo Functions

XXXVIII. filePro Functions

XXXIX. Filesystem Functions

XL. Filter Functions

XLI. Firebird/InterBase Functions

XLII. Firebird/Interbase Functions (PDO_FIREBIRD)

XLIII. FriBiDi Functions

XLIV. FrontBase Functions

XLV. FTP Functions

XLVI. Function Handling Functions

XLVII. Gettext

XLVIII. GMP Functions

XLIX. gnupg Functions

L. Net_Gopher

LI. hash Functions

LII. HTTP

LIII. Hyperwave Functions

LIV. Hyperwave API Functions

LV. IBM DB2, Cloudscape and Apache Derby Functions

LVI. ICAP Functions [deprecated]

LVII. iconv Functions

LVIII. ID3 Functions

LIX. IIS Administration Functions

LX. Image Functions

LXI. IMAP, POP3 and NNTP Functions

LXII. Informix Functions

LXIII. Informix Functions (PDO_INFORMIX)

LXIV. Ingres II Functions

LXV. IRC Gateway Functions

LXVI. PHP / Java Integration

LXVII. KADM5

LXVIII. LDAP Functions

LXIX. libxml Functions

LXX. Lotus Notes Functions

LXXI. LZF Functions

LXXII. Mail Functions

LXXIII. mailparse Functions

LXXIV. Mathematical Functions

LXXV. MaxDB PHP Extension

LXXVI. MCAL Functions

LXXVII. Mcrypt Encryption Functions

LXXVIII. MCVE (Monetra) Payment Functions

LXXIX. Memcache Functions

LXXX. Mhash Functions

LXXXI. Mimetype Functions

LXXXII. Ming functions for Flash

LXXXIII. Miscellaneous Functions

LXXXIV. mnoGoSearch Functions

LXXXV. Microsoft SQL Server Functions

LXXXVI. Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase Functions (PDO_DBLIB)

LXXXVII. Mohawk Software Session Handler Functions

LXXXVIII. mSQL Functions

LXXXIX. Multibyte String Functions

XC. muscat Functions

XCI. MySQL Functions

XCII. MySQL Functions (PDO_MYSQL)

XCIII. MySQL Improved Extension

XCIV. Ncurses Terminal Screen Control Functions

XCV. Network Functions

XCVI. Newt Functions

XCVII. NSAPI-specific Functions

XCVIII. Object Aggregation/Composition Functions

XCIX. Object property and method call overloading

C. Oracle Functions

CI. ODBC Functions (Unified)

CII. ODBC and DB2 Functions (PDO_ODBC)

CIII. oggvorbis

CIV. OpenAL Audio Bindings

CV. OpenSSL Functions

CVI. Oracle Functions [deprecated]

CVII. Oracle Functions (PDO_OCI)

CVIII. Output Control Functions

CIX. Ovrimos SQL Functions

CX. Paradox File Access

CXI. Parsekit Functions

CXII. Process Control Functions

CXIII. Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible)

CXIV. PDF Functions

CXV. PDO Functions

CXVI. PHP Options&Information

CXVII. POSIX Functions

CXVIII. Regular Expression Functions (POSIX Extended)

CXIX. PostgreSQL Functions

CXX. PostgreSQL Functions (PDO_PGSQL)

CXXI. Printer Functions

CXXII. Program Execution Functions

CXXIII. PostScript document creation

CXXIV. Pspell Functions

CXXV. qtdom Functions

CXXVI. Radius

CXXVII. Rar Functions

CXXVIII. GNU Readline

CXXIX. GNU Recode Functions

CXXX. RPM Header Reading Functions

CXXXI. runkit Functions

CXXXII. Satellite CORBA client extension [deprecated]

CXXXIII. SDO Functions

CXXXIV. SDO XML Data Access Service Functions

CXXXV. SDO Relational Data Access Service Functions

CXXXVI. Semaphore, Shared Memory and IPC Functions

CXXXVII. SESAM Database Functions

CXXXVIII. PostgreSQL Session Save Handler

CXXXIX. Session Handling Functions

CXL. Shared Memory Functions

CXLI. SimpleXML functions

CXLII. SNMP Functions

CXLIII. SOAP Functions

CXLIV. Socket Functions

CXLV. Standard PHP Library (SPL) Functions

CXLVI. SQLite Functions

CXLVII. SQLite Functions (PDO_SQLITE)

CXLVIII. Secure Shell2 Functions

CXLIX. Statistics Functions

CL. Stream Functions

CLI. String Functions

CLII. Shockwave Flash Functions

CLIII. Sybase Functions

CLIV. TCP Wrappers Functions

CLV. Tidy Functions

CLVI. Tokenizer Functions

CLVII. Unicode Functions

CLVIII. URL Functions

CLIX. Variable Handling Functions

CLX. Verisign Payflow Pro Functions

CLXI. vpopmail Functions

CLXII. W32api Functions

CLXIII. WDDX Functions

CLXIV. win32ps Functions

CLXV. win32service Functions

CLXVI. xattr Functions

CLXVII. xdiff Functions

CLXVIII. XML Parser Functions

CLXIX. XML-RPC Functions

CLXX. XMLReader functions

CLXXI. xmlwriter Functions

CLXXII. XSL functions

CLXXIII. XSLT Functions

CLXXIV. YAZ Functions

CLXXV. YP/NIS Functions

CLXXVI. Zip File Functions (Read Only Access)

CLXXVII. Zlib Compression Functions

VII. PHP and Zend Engine Internals

44. Streams API for PHP Extension Authors

45. PDO Driver How-To

46. Zend API: Hacking the Core of PHP

47. TSRM API

48. Extending PHP 3

VIII. FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

49. General Information

50. Mailing lists

51. Obtaining PHP

52. Database issues

53. Installation FAQ

54. Build Problems

55. Using PHP

56. PHP and HTML

57. PHP and COM

58. PHP and other languages

59. Migrating from PHP 2 to PHP 3

60. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4

61. Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

62. Miscellaneous Questions

IX. 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. Configure options

G. php.ini directives

H. List of Supported Timezones

I. Extension Categorization

J. List of Function Aliases

K. List of Reserved Words

L. List of Resource Types

M. List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers

N. List of Available Filters

O. List of Supported Socket Transports

P. PHP type comparison tables

Q. List of Parser Tokens

R. About the manual

S. Open Publication License

T. Function Index

U. Missing Stuff