PHP 5 Modules Supported by UW Technology
| bcmath | For arbitrary precision mathematics PHP offers the Binary Calculator
which supports numbers of any size and precision, represented as strings. See:
BCMath Arbitrary
Precision Mathematics Functions |
| calendar | The calendar extension presents a series of functions to simplify
converting between different calendar formats. See:
Calendar
Functions |
| ctype | This module enables a set of functions that
check the character type of a string or an integer as an ASCII
character. See:
Character Type Functions |
| curl | PHP supports libcurl, a library created by Daniel Stenberg, that allows
you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many
different types of protocols. See:
CURL, Client URL
Library Functions |
| exif | You may use exif functions to read meta data of pictures taken from
digital cameras by working with information stored in the headers of the
JPEG and TIFF images. See:
Exif Functions |
| filter | This extension serves to validate and filter data coming from some
insecure source, such as user input. See:
Filter Functions |
| gd | The gd module supports many of php's image functions, and allows you to do things like generate images dynamically, write image streams directly to a browser, read, combine, convert, and edit images. |
| hash | Allows direct or incremental processing of arbitrary length messages
using a variety of hashing algorithms. See:
hash Functions |
| iconv | With this module, you can turn a string represented by a local character
set into the one represented by another character set, which may be the
Unicode character set. See:
iconv Functions |
| imap | These functions enable you to operate with the IMAP protocol, as well
as the NNTP, POP3 and local mailbox access methods. See:
IMAP, POP3 and NNTP
Functions |
| ldap | LDAP is the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, and is a protocol
used to access "Directory Servers". The Directory is a special kind of
database that holds information in a tree structure. See:
LDAP Functions |
| mbstring | mbstring provides multibyte specific string functions that help you deal
with multibyte encodings in PHP. See:
Multibyte String
Functions |
| mcrypt | Mcrypt can be used to encrypt and decrypt using a wide variety of block
algorithms. See:
Mcrypt Encryption
Functions |
| mysql | The mysql module
allows php scripts to connect to MySQL database servers. In order to set up a
MySQL database server, you might want to take a look at our unsupported
documentation for using MySQL on your UW account. |
| mysqli | The mysqli extension allows you to access the functionality provided by
MySQL 4.1 and above. See:
MySQL Improved
Extension |
| openssl | This module provides functions for generating and verifying signatures and encrypting and decrypting data. |
| overload | This module allows you to overload method
calls and object properties. |
| pcre | This module provides functions for Perl-compatible
regular expressions. |
| pdo | The PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension defines a lightweight, consistent
interface for accessing databases in PHP. See:
PDO Functions |
| pgsql | This module allows php scripts to connect to PostgreSQL database servers. See: PostgreSQL Functions |
| posix | This module provides access to functions defined in the IEEE 1003.1
(POSIX.1) standards document that aren't otherwise available. POSIX Functions |
| pspell | These functions allow you to check the spelling of a word and offer
suggestions. See:
Pspell Functions |
| session | Sessions allow you to persist arbitrary numbers of variables across
separate accesses, giving some statefulness to an application accessed via
HTTP. You should note that the nature of our web server setup requires a
bit of
additional setup
for sessions to work properly. Session Functions |
| sqlite |
This is a C library that implements an embeddable SQL database engine. See: SQLite Functions |
| standard | This module contains the standard php functions that are not in any of the
other modules. |
| tokenizer | The tokenizer
functions give you an interface to the PHP tokenizer in the Zend
engine, which php is built
around. |
| xml | The functions in this module let you create XML parsers and define
handlers for XML events. Doesn't support validation. XML Parser Functions |
| XSL |
This implements the full XSL standard, performing XSLT transformations using the libxslt library See: XSL Functions |
| zlib | This module lets you read and write gzip compressed files. Zlib Compression Functions |
