PHP 5 Tutorial
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PHP 5 References
TAt W3Schools you will find complete references of all PHP functions:
Array functions
Calendar functions
Date functions
Directory functions
Error functions
Filesystem functions
Filter functions
FTP functions
HTTP functions
LibXML functions
Mail functions
Math functions
Misc functions
MySQLi functions
SimpleXML functions
String functions
XML Parser functions
Zip functions
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