- __construct() – It creates a new SimpleXMLElement object.
- addAttribute() – It adds an attribute to the SimpleXML element
- addChild() – It adds a child element the SimpleXML element
- asXML() – It returns XML string from a SimpleXML element
- attributes() – It returns a SimpleXML element’s attributes
- children() – It returns the children of a specified node
- getDocNamespaces() – It returns the children of a specified node
- getName() – It returns the name of a SimpleXML element
- getNamespace() – It returns the namespaces from XML data
- registerXPathNamespace() – It creates a namespace context for the next XPath query
- simplexml_import_dom() – It returns SimpleXMLElement object from a DOM node
- simplexml_load_file() – It returns SimpleXMLElement object from an XML document
- simplexml_load_string() – It returns SimpleXMLElement object from an XML string
- xpath() – It runs an XPath query on XML data
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Misc functions
- connection_aborted() – It checks whether the client has disconnected.
- connection_status() – It returns the current connection status
- connection_timeout() – It checks if the script timed out
- constant() – It returns the value of a constant
- define() – It defines a constant
- defined() – It checks whether a given named constant exists
- die() – Its an alias of the exit() and prints a message and exits the current script
- eval() – It evaluates a string as PHP code.
- exit() – It output a message and terminate the current script
- get_browser() – It returns the capabilities of the user’s browser
- __halt_compiler() – It halts the compiler execution
- highlight_file() – It outputs a file with the PHP syntax highlighted
- highlight_string() – It outputs a string with the PHP syntax highlighted
- ignore_user_abort() – It sets whether a remote client can abort the running of a script
- pack() – It packs data into a binary string
- php_check_syntax() – It heck the PHP syntax of the specified file
- php_strip_whitespace() – It returns the source code of a file with PHP comments and whitespace removed
- show_source() – Its an alias of highlight_file() and outputs a file with the PHP syntax highlighted
- sleep() – It delays execution
- sys_getloadavg() – It returns system load average
- time_nanosleep() – It delay for a number of seconds and nanoseconds
- time_sleep_until() – It makes the script sleep until the specified time
- uniqid() – It generates a unique ID
- unpack() – It unpacks data from binary string
- usleep() – It delays execution in microseconds
Mail functions
- ezmlm_hash() – It calculates the hash value needed by EZMLM
- mail() – It can be used to send email
Zip functions
- zip_close – It closes a zip archive opened by the zip_open() function
- zip_entry_close – It closes an entry in the ZIP file
- zip_entry_compressedsize – It returns the compressed size of a directory entry
- zip_entry_compressionmethod – It returns the compression method of a directory entry
- zip_entry_filesize – It returns the actual file size of an entry in the ZIP file
- zip_entry_name – It returns the name of an entry in the ZIP file
- zip_entry_open – It opens an entry in the ZIP file for reading
- zip_entry_read – It reads from an open entry in the ZIP file
- zip_open – It opens a ZIP file
- zip_read – It reads the next entry in a ZIP file
LibXML functions
- libxml_clear_errors – It clears the libxml error buffer
- libxml_disable_entity_loader – It disable the ability to load external entities
- libxml_get_errors – It returns array of errors
- libxml_get_last_error – It returns last error from libxml
- libxml_set_external_entity_loader – It changes the default external entity loader
- libxml_set_streams_context – It set the streams context for the next libxml document load or write
- libxml_use_internal_errors – It disable libxml errors and allow user to fetch error information as needed
HTTP functions
- header() – It sends a raw HTTP header to a client.
- headers_list() – It returns a list of response headers sent
- headers_sent() – It checks whether headers have been sent .
- setcookie() – It sends an HTTP cookie to a client
- setrawcookie() – It sends an HTTP cookie without URL encoding the cookie value
FTP functions
- ftp_alloc – It allocates space for a file to be uploaded
- ftp_cdup – It changes to the parent directory
- ftp_chdir – It changes the current directory on a FTP server
- ftp_chmod – It sets permissions on a file via FTP
- ftp_close – It closes an FTP connection
- ftp_connect – It opens an FTP connection
- ftp_delete – It deletes a file on the FTP server
- ftp_exec – It requests execution of a command on the FTP server
- ftp_fget – It downloads a file from the FTP server and saves to an open file
- ftp_fput – It uploads from an open file to the FTP server
- ftp_get_option -It retrieves various runtime behaviours of the current FTP stream
- ftp_get – It downloads a file from the FTP server
- ftp_login – It can be used to log in to an FTP connection
- ftp_mdtm – It returns the last modified time of the given file
- ftp_mkdir – It creates a directory on the FTP server
- ftp_nb_continue – Continues retrieving/sending a file
- ftp_nb_fget – It retrieves a file from the FTP server and writes it to an open file
- ftp_nb_fput – It stores a file from an open file to the FTP server
- ftp_nb_get – It retrieves a file from the FTP server and writes it to a local file
- ftp_nb_put – It stores a file on the FTP server
- ftp_nlist – It returns a list of files in the given directory
- ftp_pasv – It turns passive mode on or off
- ftp_put – It uploads a file to the FTP server
- ftp_pwd – It returns the current directory name
- ftp_quit – Its an alias ftp_close() and closes ftp conection
- ftp_raw – It sends an arbitrary command to an FTP server
- ftp_rawlist – It returns a detailed list of files in the given directory
- ftp_rename – It renames a file or a directory on the FTP server
- ftp_rmdir – It removes a directory on the FTP server
- ftp_set_option – It sets miscellaneous runtime FTP options
- ftp_site – It sends a SITE command to the server
- ftp_size – It returns the size of the given file
- ftp_ssl_connect – It opens an Secure SSL-FTP connection
- ftp_systype – It returns the system type identifier of the remote FTP server
Filesystem functions
- basename – It returns trailing name component of path
- chgrp – It can be used to change file group
- chmod – It can be used to change file permission
- chown – It can be used to change file ownership
- clearstatcache – It can be used to clears file status cache
- copy – It can be used to copy file
- delete – Check unlink() or unset()
- dirname – It returns parent directory’s path
- disk_free_space – It returns available space on filesystem or disk partition
- disk_total_space – It returns the total size of a filesystem or disk partitio
- diskfreespace – Its an alias of disk_free_space()
- fclose – It closes an open file pointer
- feof – It checks for end-of-file on a file pointer
- fflush – It flushes the output to a file
- fgetc – It returns character from file pointer
- fgetcsv – It returns line from file pointer and parse for CSV fields
- fgets – It returns line from file pointer
- fgetss – It returns line from file pointer and strip HTML tags
- file_exists – It checks whether a file or directory exists
- file_get_contents – It reads entire file
- file_put_contents – It writes a string to a file
- file – It reads entire file into an array
- fileatime – It returns last access time of file
- filectime – It returns inode change time of file
- filegroup – It returns file group
- fileinode – It returns file inode
- filemtime – It returns file modification time
- fileowner – It returns file owner
- fileperms – It returns file permissions
- filesize – It returns file size
- filetype – It returns file type
- flock – It can be used to lock the file
- fnmatch – Match filename against a pattern
- fopen – It opens file or URL
- fpassthru – It outputs all remaining data on a file pointer
- fputcsv – It format line as CSV and write to file pointer
- fputs – Its an alias of fwrite() and writes to a file
- fread – It can be used to read the content from a file
- fscanf – It parses input from a file according to a format
- fseek – It seeks on a file pointer
- fstat – It returns information about a file using an open file pointer
- ftell – It returns the current position of the file pointer
- ftruncate – It truncates a file to a given length
- fwrite – It writes the string to a file
- glob – It finds pathnames matching a pattern
- is_dir – It checks whether the filename is a directory
- is_executable – It checks whether the filename is executable
- is_file – It checks whether the filename is a regular file
- is_link – It checks whether the filename is a symbolic link
- is_readable – It checks whether the file exists and is readable
- is_uploaded_file – It checks whether the file was uploaded via HTTP POST
- is_writable – It checks whether the filename is writable
- is_writeable – Its an Alias of is_writable() and checks whether the filename is writable
- lchgrp – It changes group ownership of symlink
- lchown – It changes user ownership of symlink
- link – It creates a hard link
- linkinfo – It returns information about a link
- lstat – It returns information about a file or symbolic link
- mkdir – It can be used to create directory
- move_uploaded_file – It moves an uploaded file to a new location
- parse_ini_file – It parses a configuration file
- parse_ini_string – It parse a configuration string
- pathinfo – It returns information about a file path
- pclose – It closes process file pointer
- popen – It opens process file pointer
- readfile – It outputs a file
- readlink – It returns the target of a symbolic link
- realpath_cache_get – It returns realpath cache entries
- realpath_cache_size – It returns realpath cache size
- realpath – It returns canonicalized absolute pathname
- rename – It renames a file or directory
- rewind – It rewinds the position of a file pointer
- rmdir – It can be used to remove a directory
- set_file_buffer – Its an alias of stream_set_write_buffer()
- stat – It returns information about a file
- symlink – It creates a symbolic link
- tempnam – It create file with unique file name
- tmpfile – It creates a temporary file
- touch – It sets access and modification time of file
- umask – It changes file permissions of file
- unlink – It deletes the file
Error functions
- debug_backtrace – It generate a generates a backtrace
- debug_print_backtrace – It prints a backtrace
- error_get_last – It returns the last error occurred
- error_log – It sends an error to the server error-log
- error_reporting – It specifies which errors are occurred.
- restore_error_handler – It restores the previous error handler
- restore_exception_handler – It r restores the previous exception handler
- set_error_handler – It sets a user-defined function to handle errors
- set_exception_handler – It sets a user-defined function to handle exception
- trigger_error – It can be used to create a custom error message .
- user_error – Its an alias of trigger_error()
Directory functions
- chdir – It can be used to change directory
- chroot – It can be used to change the root directory
- closedir – It closes directory handle
- dir – It return an instance of the Directory class
- getcwd – It returns the current working directory
- opendir – It opens directory handle
- readdir – It reads entry from directory handle
- rewinddir – It rewinds directory handle
- scandir – It lists files and directories of a given path.
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