Function Reference (Programming PHP)

A.1. PHP Functions by Category

This is a list of functions provided by PHP's built-in extensions, grouped by category. Some functions fall under more than one header.

Arrays: array , array_count_values, array_diff, array_filter, array_flip, array_intersect, array_keys, array_map, array_merge, array_merge_recursive, array_multisort, array_pad, array_pop, array_push, array_rand, array_reduce, array_reverse, array_search, array_shift, array_slice, array_splice, array_sum, array_unique, array_unshift, array_values, array_walk, arsort, asort, compact, count, current, each, end, explode, extract, implode, in_array, key, key_exists, krsort, ksort, list, natcasesort, natsort, next, pos, prev, range, reset, rsort, shuffle, sizeof, sort, uasort, uksort, usort
Classes and objects: call_user_method , call_user_method_array, class_exists, get_class, get_class_methods, get_class_vars, get_declared_classes, get_object_vars, get_parent_class, is_subclass_of, method_exists
Date and time: checkdate , date, getdate, gettimeofday, gmdate, gmmktime, gmstrftime, localtime, microtime, mktime, strftime, strtotime, time
Errors and logging: assert , assert_options, closelog, crc32, define_syslog_variables, error_log, error_reporting, openlog, restore_error_handler, set_error_handler, syslog, trigger_error, user_error
Files, directories, and filesystem: basename , chdir, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, clearstatcache, closedir, copy, dirname, disk_free_space, disk_total_space, fclose, feof, fflush, fgetc, fgetcsv, fgets, fgetss, file, file_exists, fileatime, filectime, filegroup, fileinode, filemtime, fileowner, fileperms, filesize, filetype, flock, fopen, fpassthru, fputs, fread, fscanf, fseek, fstat, ftell, ftruncate, fwrite, getcwd, getlastmod, is_dir, is_executable, is_file, is_link, is_readable, is_uploaded_file, is_writable, is_writeable, link, linkinfo, lstat, mkdir, move_uploaded_file, opendir, pathinfo, pclose, readdir, readfile, readlink, realpath, rename, rewind, rewinddir, rmdir, set_file_buffer, stat, symlink, tempnam, tmpfile, touch, umask, unlink
Functions: call_user_func, call_user_func_array, create_function, func_get_arg, func_get_args, func_num_args, function_exists, get_defined_functions, get_extension_funcs, get_loaded_extensions, register_shutdown_function, register_tick_function, unregister_tick_function
HTTP: get_browser , get_meta_tags, header, headers_sent, parse_str, parse_url, rawurldecode, rawurlencode, setcookie
Mail: mail
Math: abs , acos, asin, atan, atan2, base_convert, bindec, ceil, cos, decbin, dechex, decoct, deg2rad, exp, floor, getrandmax, hexdec, lcg_value, log, log10, max, min, mt_getrandmax, mt_rand, mt_srand, number_format, octdec, pi, pow, rad2deg, rand, round, sin, sqrt, srand, tan
Network: checkdnsrr , fsockopen, gethostbyaddr, gethostbyname, gethostbynamel, getmxrr, getprotobyname, getprotobynumber, getservbyname, getservbyport, ip2long, long2ip, pfsockopen, socket_get_status, socket_set_blocking, socket_set_timeout
Output control: flush , ob_end_clean, ob_end_flush, ob_get_contents, ob_get_length, ob_gzhandler, ob_implicit_flush, ob_start
PHP options/info: assert , assert_options, dl, extension_loaded, get_cfg_var, get_current_user, get_extension_funcs, get_included_files, get_loaded_extensions, get_magic_quotes_gpc, get_required_files, getenv, getlastmod, getmyinode, getmypid, getrusage, highlight_file, highlight_string, ini_alter, ini_get, ini_restore, ini_set, localeconv, parse_ini_file, php_logo_guid, php_sapi_name, php_uname, phpcredits, phpinfo, phpversion, putenv, set_magic_quotes_runtime, set_time_limit, version_compare, zend_logo_guid, zend_version
Program execution: escapeshellarg , escapeshellcmd, exec, passthru, putenv, shell_exec, sleep, system, usleep
Strings: addcslashes , addslashes, base64_decode, base64_encode, chop, chr, chunk_split, convert_cyr_string, count_chars, crypt, echo, ereg, ereg_replace, eregi, eregi_replace, explode, get_html_translation_table, get_meta_tags, hebrev, hebrevc, highlight_string, htmlentities, htmlspecialchars, implode, iptcparse, join, levenshtein, localeconv, ltrim, md5, metaphone, nl2br, number_format, ord, parse_str, parse_url, print, printf, quoted_printable_decode, quotemeta, rtrim, setlocale, similar_text, soundex, split, spliti, sprintf, sql_regcase, sscanf, str_pad, str_repeat, str_replace strcasecmp, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcspn, strip_tags, stripcslashes, stristr, strlen, strnatcasecmp, strnatcmp, strncasecmp, strncmp, strpos, strrchr, strrev, strrpos, strspn, strstr, strtok, strtolower, strtoupper, strtr, substr, substr_count, substr_replace, trim, ucfirst, ucwords, vprintf, vsprintf, wordwrap
Type functions: doubleval , get_resource_type, gettype, intval, is_array, is_bool, is_double, is_float, is_int, is_integer, is_long, is_null, is_numeric, is_object, is_real, is_resource, is_scalar, is_string, settype, strval
URLs: base64_decode , base64_encode, parse_url, rawurldecode, rawurlencode, urldecode, urlencode
Variable functions: compact , empty, extract, get_defined_constants, get_defined_vars, import_request_variables, isset, list, print_r, putenv, serialize, uniqid, unserialize, unset, var_dump

Appendix A. Function Reference

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A.1. PHP Functions by Category


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