Creates a new string.

Creates a new long.

Creates a new double.

Creates an blob object.

Creates a new calendar named calendar.

smooth out the painting strokes the filter creates

Creates a new dom document from scratch and returns it.

Creates an char object. param should be the char content.

Creates and returns a stream context with any parameters supplied in params preset.

Creates a new content object from the string content. The mimetype is set to mimetype.

Creates an HTML document from the dom representation. This function usually is called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below.

Creates a GMP number from an integer or string. String representation can be decimal or hexadecimal. In the latter case, the string should start with 0x.

The function creates a new device context. A device context is used to customize the graphic objects of the document. handle must be a valid handle to a printer.

The pdflib distribution contains a more complex example which creates a series of pages with an analog clock. Here is that example converted into PHP using the ClibPDF extension

Returns TRUE if every character in text creates some sort of white space, FALSE otherwise. Besides the blank character this also includes tab, vertical tab, line feed, carriage return and form feed characters.

Creates a link to an object. Accessing this link is like accessing the object to links points to. The parameter array contains the required elements 'objectIdentifier' and 'destinationParentIdentifier'. 'destinationParentIdentifier' is the target collection.

ע The write handler is not executed if the session contains no data this applies even if empty session variables are registered. This differs to the default file based session save handler, which creates empty session files.

Creates an XML document from the dom representation. This function usually is called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below. The format specifies whether the output should be neatly formatted, or not.

Creates and returns a socket resource, also referred to as an endpoint of communication. A typical network connection is made up of 2 sockets, one performing the role of the client, and another performing the role of the server.

The function creates a new document in the printer spooler. A document can contain multiple pages, it's used to schedule the print job in the spooler. handle must be a valid handle to a printer. The optional parameter document can be used to set an alternative document name.

Creates an XML document from the dom representation. This function usually is called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below. The format specifies whether the output should be neatly formatted, or not. The first parameter specifies the name of the filename and the second parameter, whether it should be compressed or not.

The default is to build PHP as a CGI program. This creates a commandline interpreter, which can be used for CGI processing, or for non web related PHP scripting. If you are running a web server PHP has module support for, you should generally go for that solution for performance reasons. However, the CGI version enables Apache users to run different PHP enabled pages under different user ids. Please make sure you read through the Security chapter if you are going to run PHP as a CGI.