PHP3 Manual

Stig Sæther Bakken
Alexander Aulbach
Egon Schmid
Jim Winstead
Lars Torben Wilson
Rasmus Lerdorf
Zeev Suraski

Edited by

Stig Sæther Bakken


Dedication

Date: 1999-06-24

Table of Contents
Preface
About this Manual
I. Getting Started
1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. Configuration
II. Language Reference
4. Basic syntax
5. Types
6. Variables
7. Constants
8. Expressions
9. Operators
10. Control Structures
III. Features
11. Error handling
12. Creating GIF images
13. HTTP authentication with PHP
14. Cookies
15. Handling file uploads
16. Connection handling
17. Persistent database connections
IV. Function Reference
I. Adabas D functions
II. Apache-specific functions
III. Array functions
IV. Aspell functions
V. Arbitrary precision mathematics functions
VI. Calendar functions
VII. ClibPDF functions
VIII. Date and Time functions
IX. Database (dbm-style) abstraction layer functions
X. dBase functions
XI. dbm functions
XII. Directory functions
XIII. Dynamic Loading functions
XIV. Program Execution functions
XV. Forms Data Format functions
XVI. filePro functions
XVII. Filesystem functions
XVIII. functions related to HTTP
XIX. Hyperwave functions
XX. Image functions
XXI. IMAP functions
XXII. PHP options & information
XXIII. Informix functions
XXIV. InterBase functions
XXV. LDAP functions
XXVI. Mail functions
XXVII. Mathematical functions
XXVIII. Encryption functions
XXIX. Hash functions
XXX. Miscellaneous functions
XXXI. mSQL functions
XXXII. Microsoft SQL Server functions
XXXIII. MySQL functions
XXXIV. Sybase functions
XXXV. Network functions
XXXVI. NIS functions
XXXVII. ODBC functions
XXXVIII. Oracle 8 functions
XXXIX. Oracle functions
XL. Perl-compatible Regular Expression functions
XLI. PDF functions
XLII. PostgreSQL functions
XLIII. Regular expression functions
XLIV. Semaphore and shared memory functions
XLV. Solid functions
XLVI. SNMP functions
XLVII. String functions
XLVIII. URL functions
XLIX. Variable functions
L. Vmailmgr functions
LI. WDDX functions
LII. Compression functions
LIII. XML parser functions
V. Appendixes
A. Migrating from PHP/FI 2.0 to PHP 3.0
B. PHP development
C. The PHP Debugger