PHP 7.2 Docs

PHP 7.2 Documentation

Table of Contents

Copyright

PHP Manual

- Preface

Getting Started

- Introduction

- A simple tutorial

Installation and Configuration

- General Installation Considerations

- Installation on Unix systems

- Installation on macOS

- Installation on Windows systems

- Installation on Cloud Computing platforms

- FastCGI Process Manager (FPM)

- Installation of PECL extensions

- Problems?

- Runtime Configuration

Language Reference

- Basic syntax

- Types

- Variables

- Constants

- Expressions

- Operators

- Control Structures

- Functions

- Classes and Objects

- Namespaces

- Errors

- Exceptions

- Generators

- References Explained

- Predefined Variables

- Predefined Exceptions

- Predefined Interfaces and Classes

- Context options and parameters

- Supported Protocols and Wrappers

Security

- Introduction

- General considerations

- Installed as CGI binary

- Installed as an Apache module

- Session Security

- Filesystem Security

- Database Security

- Error Reporting

- Using Register Globals

- User Submitted Data

- Magic Quotes

- Hiding PHP

- Keeping Current

Features

- HTTP authentication with PHP

- Cookies

- Sessions

- Dealing with XForms

- Handling file uploads

- Using remote files

- Connection handling

- Persistent Database Connections

- Safe Mode

- Command line usage — Using PHP from the command line

- Garbage Collection

- DTrace Dynamic Tracing

Function Reference

- Affecting PHP's Behaviour

- Audio Formats Manipulation

- Authentication Services

- Command Line Specific Extensions

- Compression and Archive Extensions

- Credit Card Processing

- Cryptography Extensions

- Database Extensions

- Date and Time Related Extensions

- File System Related Extensions

- Human Language and Character Encoding Support

- Image Processing and Generation

- Mail Related Extensions

- Mathematical Extensions

- Non-Text MIME Output

- Process Control Extensions

- Other Basic Extensions

- Other Services

- Search Engine Extensions

- Server Specific Extensions

- Session Extensions

- Text Processing

- Variable and Type Related Extensions

- Web Services

- Windows Only Extensions

- XML Manipulation

- GUI Extensions

PHP at the Core: A Hacker's Guide

- Preface

- Memory management

- Working with Variables

- Writing Functions

- Writing Classes

- Working with Resources

- Working with INI settings

- Working with streams

- The "counter" Extension - A Continuing Example

- The PHP 5 build system

- Extension structure

- PDO Driver How-To

- Extension FAQs

- Zend Engine 2 API reference

- Zend Engine 2 Opcodes

- Zend Engine 1

FAQ — FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

- General Information

- Mailing lists

- Obtaining PHP

- Database issues

- Installation

- Build Problems

- Using PHP

- Password Hashing — Safe Password Hashing

- PHP and HTML

- PHP and COM

- Miscellaneous Questions

Appendices

- History of PHP and Related Projects

- Migrating from PHP 7.2.x to PHP 7.3.x

- Migrating from PHP 7.1.x to PHP 7.2.x

- Migrating from PHP 7.0.x to PHP 7.1.x

- Migrating from PHP 5.6.x to PHP 7.0.x

- Migrating from PHP 5.5.x to PHP 5.6.x

- Migrating from PHP 5.4.x to PHP 5.5.x

- Migrating from PHP 5.3.x to PHP 5.4.x

- Migrating from PHP 5.2.x to PHP 5.3.x

- Migrating from PHP 5.1.x to PHP 5.2.x

- Migrating from PHP 5.0.x to PHP 5.1.x

- Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5.0.x

- Debugging in PHP

- Configure options

- php.ini directives

- Extension List/Categorization

- List of Function Aliases

- List of Reserved Words

- List of Resource Types

- List of Available Filters

- List of Supported Socket Transports

- PHP type comparison tables

- List of Parser Tokens

- Userland Naming Guide

- About the manual

- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

- Index listing

- Changelog