PHP manual table of contents

Getting Started, Installation and Configuration

PHP Language Reference 1

PHP Language Reference 2

PHP Security and Features

IV. Security

1. Introduction

2. General considerations

3. Installed as CGI binary

Possible attacks

Case 1: only public files served

Case 2: using --enable-force-cgi-redirect

Case 3: setting doc_root or user_dir

Case 4: PHP parser outside of web tree

4. Installed as an Apache module

5. Filesystem Security

Null bytes related issues

6. Database Security

Designing Databases

Connecting to Database

Encrypted Storage Model

SQL Injection

Avoiding techniques

7. Error Reporting

8. Using Register Globals

9. User Submitted Data

10. Magic Quotes

What are Magic Quotes

Why use Magic Quotes

Why not to use Magic Quotes

Disabling Magic Quotes

11. Hiding PHP

12. Keeping Current

V. Features

1. HTTP authentication with PHP

2. Cookies

3. Sessions

4. Dealing with XForms

5. Handling file uploads

POST method uploads

Error Messages Explained

Common Pitfalls

Uploading multiple files

PUT method support

6. Using remote files

7. Connection handling

8. Persistent Database Connections

9. Safe Mode

Security and Safe Mode

Functions restricted/disabled by safe mode

10. Using PHP from the command line

PHP Function Reference

PHP Function Reference 1

PHP Function Reference 2

VII. FAQ

  1. General Information

  2. Mailing lists

  3. Obtaining PHP

  4. Database issues

  5. Installation

  6. Build Problems

  7. Using PHP

  8. PHP and HTML

  9. PHP and COM

  10. PHP and other languages

  11. Migrating from PHP 2 to PHP 3

  12. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4

  13. Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

  14. Miscellaneous Questions

VIII. Appendices

 

  A. History of PHP and related projects

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

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

  D. Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5

  E. Migrating from PHP 3 to PHP 4

  F. Migrating from PHP/FI 2 to PHP 3

  G. Debugging PHP

  H. Configure options

  I. php.ini directives

  J. List of Supported Timezones

  K. Extension Categorization

  L. List of Function Aliases

  M. List of Reserved Words

  N. List of Resource Types

  O. List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers

  P. List of Available Filters

  Q. List of Supported Socket Transports

  R. PHP type comparison tables

  S. List of Parser Tokens

  T. Userland Naming Guide

  U. About the manual

  V. Open Publication License

  W. Function Index