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PHP Miscellaneous Introduction

The misc. functions were only placed here because none of the other categories seemed to fit.

Installation

The misc functions are division of the PHP core. There is no installation needed to use these functions.

Runtime Configuration

The behavior of the misc functions is affected by settings in the php.ini file.

Misc. configuration options:

Name

Default

Description

Changeable

ignore_user_abort

"0"

FALSE indicates that scripts will be terminated as soon as they try to output something after a client has aborted their connection
 

PHP_INI_ALL

highlight.string

"#DD0000"

Color for highlighting a string in PHP syntax
 

PHP_INI_ALL

highlight.comment

"#FF8000"

Color for highlighting PHP comments
 

PHP_INI_ALL

highlight.keyword

"#007700"

Color for syntax highlighting PHP keywords (e.g. parenthesis and semicolon)
 

PHP_INI_ALL

highlight.bg

"#FFFFFF"

Color for background
 

PHP_INI_ALL

highlight.default

"#0000BB"

Default color for PHP syntax
 

PHP_INI_ALL

highlight.html

"#000000"

Color for HTML code
 

PHP_INI_ALL

browscap

NULL

Name and location of browser-capabilities file (e.g. browscap.ini)
 

PHP_INI_SYSTEM

PHP Misc. Functions

PHP: indicates the initial version of PHP that supports the function.

Function

Description

PHP

connection_aborted()

Checks whether the client has disconnected
 

3

connection_status()

Returns the current connection status
 

3

connection_timeout()

Deprecated in PHP 4.0.5
 

3

constant()

Returns the value of a constant
 

4

define()

Defines a constant
 

3

defined()

Checks whether a constant exists
 

3

die()

Prints a message and exits the current script
 

3

eval()

Evaluates a string as PHP code
 

3

exit()

Prints a message and exits the current script
 

3

get_browser()

Returns the capabilities of the user's browser
 

3

highlight_file()

Outputs a file with the PHP syntax highlighted
 

4

highlight_string()

Outputs a string with the PHP syntax highlighted
 

4

ignore_user_abort()

Sets whether a remote client can abort the running of a script
 

3

pack()

Packs data into a binary string
 

3

php_check_syntax()

Deprecated in PHP 5.0.5
 

5

php_strip_whitespace()

Returns the source code of a file with PHP comments and whitespace removed
 

5

show_source()

Alias of highlight_file()
 

4

sleep()

Delays code execution for a number of seconds
 

3

time_nanosleep()

Delays code execution for a number of seconds and nanoseconds
 

5

time_sleep_until()

Delays code execution until a specified time
 

5

uniqid()

Generates a unique ID
 

3

unpack()

Unpacks data from a binary string
 

3

usleep()

Delays code execution for a number of microseconds
 

3



Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 April 2008 )
 
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