PHP Language Specifications
PHP Language Specifications
WIP PHP Language Specifications
About the Book
This is a compiled ebook from the mirror github repo ( https://github.com/php/php-langspec ) which I encorage you to check and try to help.
I will try to update this book on a regular bases, but thats depending on the free time which I might have.
If you find any issue, please contact me so that I try to solve it.
PS: the book is not perfect, and am doing my best to enhance it by time with each new release.
Table of Contents
- Specification for PHP
- Introduction
- Conformance
- Terms and Definitions
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Basic Concepts
- Program Start-Up
- Program Termination
- __halt_compiler
- The Memory Model
- Scope
- Storage Duration
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Types
- General
- Scalar Types
- Composite Types
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Constants
- General
- Context-Dependent Constants
- Core Predefined Constants
- User-Defined Constants
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Variables
- General
- Kinds of Variables
- Predefined Variables
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Conversions
- General
- Converting to Boolean Type
- Converting to Integer Type
- Converting to Floating-Point Type
- Converting to String Type
- Converting to Array Type
- Converting to Object Type
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Lexical Structure
- Scripts
- Grammars
- Lexical analysis
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Expressions
- General
- Primary Expressions
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