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International PHP Conference Berlin 2025
Getting Started
Introduction
A simple tutorial
Language Reference
Basic syntax
Types
Variables
Constants
Expressions
Operators
Control Structures
Functions
Classes and Objects
Namespaces
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Errors
Exceptions
Fibers
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References Explained
Predefined Variables
Predefined Exceptions
Predefined Interfaces and Classes
Predefined Attributes
Context options and parameters
Supported Protocols and Wrappers
Security
Introduction
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Installed as CGI binary
Installed as an Apache module
Session Security
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Hiding PHP
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HTTP authentication with PHP
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Handling file uploads
Using remote files
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Command line usage
Garbage Collection
DTrace Dynamic Tracing
Function Reference
Affecting PHP's Behaviour
Audio Formats Manipulation
Authentication Services
Command Line Specific Extensions
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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
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Non-Text MIME Output
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Miscellaneous Functions
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Runtime Configuration
Predefined Constants
Misc. Functions
connection_aborted
— Check whether client disconnected
connection_status
— Returns connection status bitfield
constant
— Returns the value of a constant
define
— Defines a named constant
defined
— Checks whether a constant with the given name exists
die
— Alias of exit
eval
— Evaluate a string as PHP code
exit
— Terminate the current script with a status code or message
get_browser
— Tells what the user's browser is capable of
__halt_compiler
— Halts the compiler execution
highlight_file
— Syntax highlighting of a file
highlight_string
— Syntax highlighting of a string
hrtime
— Get the system's high resolution time
ignore_user_abort
— Set whether a client disconnect should abort script execution
pack
— Pack data into binary string
php_strip_whitespace
— Return source with stripped comments and whitespace
sapi_windows_cp_conv
— Convert string from one codepage to another
sapi_windows_cp_get
— Get current codepage
sapi_windows_cp_is_utf8
— Indicates whether the codepage is UTF-8 compatible
sapi_windows_cp_set
— Set process codepage
sapi_windows_generate_ctrl_event
— Send a CTRL event to another process
sapi_windows_set_ctrl_handler
— Set or remove a CTRL event handler
sapi_windows_vt100_support
— Get or set VT100 support for the specified stream associated to an output buffer of a Windows console.
show_source
— Alias of highlight_file
sleep
— Delay execution
sys_getloadavg
— Gets system load average
time_nanosleep
— Delay for a number of seconds and nanoseconds
time_sleep_until
— Make the script sleep until the specified time
uniqid
— Generate a time-based identifier
unpack
— Unpack data from binary string
usleep
— Delay execution in microseconds
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