Preface

• About this Manual

Getting Started

• Introduction
• Installation
• Configuration
• Security

Language Reference

• Basic syntax
• Types
• Variables
• Constants
• Expressions
• Operators
• Control Structures
• Functions
• Classes and Objects
  

Features

• Error handling
• Creating GIF images
• HTTP authentication with PHP
• Cookies
• Handling file uploads
• Using remote files
• Connection handling
• Persistent database connections
  

Function Reference

• Apache-specific functions
• Arbitrary precision mathematics functions
• Array functions
• Aspell functions
• Calendar functions
• ClibPDF functions
• Compression functions
• Database (dbm-style) abstraction layer functions
• Date and Time functions
• dBase functions
• dbm functions
• Directory functions
• Dynamic Loading functions
• Encryption functions
• filePro functions
• Filesystem functions
• Forms Data Format functions
• FTP functions
• Hash functions
• HTTP functions
• Hyperwave functions
• Image functions
• IMAP, POP3 and NNTP functions
• Informix functions
• InterBase functions
• LDAP functions
• Mail functions
• Mathematical functions
• MCAL functions
• Microsoft SQL Server functions
• Miscellaneous functions
• mSQL functions
• MySQL functions
• Network functions
• NIS functions
• ODBC functions
• Oracle functions
• Oracle 8 functions
• PDF functions
• Perl-compatible Regular Expression functions
• PHP options & information
• POSIX functions
• PostgreSQL functions
• Program Execution functions
• GNU Recode functions
• Regular expression functions
• Semaphore and shared memory functions
• Session handling functions
• SNMP functions
• String functions
• Sybase functions
• URL Functions
• Variable functions
• Vmailmgr functions
• WDDX functions
• XML parser functions

Appendices

• Migrating from PHP/FI 2.0 to PHP 3.0
• PHP development
• The PHP Debugger