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Preface
PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext
Preprocessor" is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose
scripting language that is especially suited for Web
development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws
upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. The main goal of
the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically
generated webpages quickly, but you can do much more with PHP.
This manual consists primarily of a
function reference, but also contains a
language reference, explanations
of some of PHP's major features,
and other supplemental
information.
You can download this manual in several formats at /download-docs.php.
More information about how this manual is developed can be found in the
'About the manual' appendix. If you are
interested in the history of PHP,
visit the relevant appendix.
We highlight the currently most active
people on the manual frontpage, but there are many more contributors who
currently help in our work or provided a great amount of help to the project
in the past. There are a lot of unnamed people who help out with their user
notes on manual pages, which continually get included in the references, the
work of whom we are also very thankful for. All the lists provided below are in
alphabetical order.
The following contributors should be
recognized for the impact they have made and/or continue to make by adding
content to the manual:
Jouni Ahto,
Alexander Aulbach,
Daniel Beckham,
Stig Bakken,
Jesus M. Castagnetto,
Ron Chmara,
Sean Coates,
John Coggeshall,
Simone Cortesi,
Markus Fischer,
Wez Furlong,
Sara Golemon,
Rui Hirokawa,
Brad House,
Moriyoshi Koizumi,
Rasmus Lerdorf,
Andrew Lindeman,
Stanislav Malyshev,
Rafael Martinez,
Yasuo Ohgaki,
Derick Rethans,
Sander Roobol,
Egon Schmid,
Thomas Schoefbeck,
Sascha Schumann,
Dan Scott,
Lars Torben Wilson,
Jim Winstead,
Jeroen van Wolffelaar and
Andrei Zmievski.
The following contributors have done
significant work editing the manual:
Stig Bakken,
Gabor Hojtsy,
Hartmut Holzgraefe and
Egon Schmid.
The currently most active maintainers are:
Mehdi Achour,
Friedhelm Betz,
Vincent Gevers,
Aidan Lister,
Nuno Lopes and
Tom Sommer.
These people have also put a lot of effort
into managing user notes:
Daniel Beckham,
Victor Boivie,
Jesus M. Castagnetto,
Nicolas Chaillan,
Ron Chmara,
James Cox,
Sara Golemon,
Zak Greant,
Szabolcs Heilig,
Oliver Hinckel,
Hartmut Holzgraefe,
Rasmus Lerdorf,
Andrew Lindeman,
Maxim Maletsky,
James Moore,
Sebastian Picklum,
Derick Rethans,
Sander Roobol,
Damien Seguy,
Jason Sheets,
Jani Taskinen,
Yasuo Ohgaki,
Philip Olson,
Lars Torben Wilson,
Jim Winstead,
Jared Wyles and
Jeroen van Wolffelaar.
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PHP Manual
