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<ul class="chunklist chunklist_set"><li><a href="refs.basic.php.html">Affecting PHP's Behaviour</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.apc.html">APC</a> — Alternative PHP Cache</li><li><a href="book.apd.html">APD</a> — Advanced PHP debugger</li><li><a href="book.bcompiler.html">bcompiler</a> — PHP bytecode Compiler</li><li><a href="book.blenc.html">BLENC</a> — Blenc - BLowfish ENCoder for PHP source scripts</li><li><a href="book.errorfunc.html">Error Handling</a> — Error Handling and Logging</li><li><a href="book.htscanner.html">htscanner</a> — htaccess-like support for all SAPIs</li><li><a href="book.inclued.html">inclued</a> — Inclusion hierarchy viewer</li><li><a href="book.memtrack.html">Memtrack</a></li><li><a href="book.opcache.html">OPcache</a></li><li><a href="book.outcontrol.html">Output Control</a> — Output Buffering Control</li><li><a href="book.info.html">PHP Options/Info</a> — PHP Options and Information</li><li><a 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Extensions</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.ncurses.html">Ncurses</a> — Ncurses Terminal Screen Control</li><li><a href="book.newt.html">Newt</a></li><li><a href="book.readline.html">Readline</a> — GNU Readline</li></ul></li><li><a href="refs.compression.html">Compression and Archive Extensions</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.bzip2.html">Bzip2</a></li><li><a href="book.lzf.html">LZF</a></li><li><a href="book.phar.html">Phar</a></li><li><a href="book.rar.html">Rar</a> — Rar Archiving</li><li><a href="book.zip.html">Zip</a></li><li><a href="book.zlib.html">Zlib</a> — Zlib Compression</li></ul></li><li><a href="refs.creditcard.html">Credit Card Processing</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.mcve.html">MCVE</a> — MCVE (Monetra) Payment</li><li><a href="book.spplus.html">SPPLUS</a> — SPPLUS Payment System</li></ul></li><li><a href="refs.crypto.html">Cryptography Extensions</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.crack.html">Crack</a> — Cracklib</li><li><a href="book.hash.html">Hash</a> — HASH Message Digest Framework</li><li><a href="book.mcrypt.html">Mcrypt</a></li><li><a href="book.mhash.html">Mhash</a></li><li><a href="book.openssl.html">OpenSSL</a></li><li><a href="book.password.html">Password Hashing</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="refs.database.html">Database Extensions</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="refs.database.abstract.html">Abstraction Layers</a></li><li><a href="refs.database.vendors.html">Vendor Specific Database Extensions</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="refs.calendar.html">Date and Time Related Extensions</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.calendar.html">Calendar</a></li><li><a href="book.datetime.html">Date/Time</a> — Date and Time</li></ul></li><li><a href="refs.fileprocess.file.html">File System Related Extensions</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.dio.html">Direct IO</a></li><li><a href="book.dir.html">Directories</a></li><li><a href="book.fileinfo.html">Fileinfo</a> — File Information</li><li><a href="book.filesystem.html">Filesystem</a></li><li><a href="book.inotify.html">Inotify</a></li><li><a href="book.mime-magic.html">Mimetype</a></li><li><a href="book.proctitle.html">Proctitle</a></li><li><a href="book.xattr.html">xattr</a></li><li><a href="book.xdiff.html">xdiff</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="refs.international.html">Human Language and Character Encoding Support</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.enchant.html">Enchant</a> — Enchant spelling library</li><li><a href="book.fribidi.html">FriBiDi</a></li><li><a href="book.gender.html">Gender</a> — Determine gender of firstnames</li><li><a href="book.gettext.html">Gettext</a></li><li><a href="book.iconv.html">iconv</a></li><li><a href="book.intl.html">intl</a> — Internationalization Functions</li><li><a href="book.mbstring.html">Multibyte String</a></li><li><a href="book.pspell.html">Pspell</a></li><li><a href="book.recode.html">Recode</a> — GNU Recode</li></ul></li><li><a href="refs.utilspec.image.html">Image Processing and Generation</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.cairo.html">Cairo</a></li><li><a href="book.exif.html">Exif</a> — Exchangeable image information</li><li><a href="book.image.html">GD</a> — Image Processing and GD</li><li><a href="book.gmagick.html">Gmagick</a></li><li><a href="book.imagick.html">ImageMagick</a> — Image Processing (ImageMagick)</li></ul></li><li><a href="refs.remote.mail.html">Mail Related Extensions</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.cyrus.html">Cyrus</a> — Cyrus IMAP administration</li><li><a href="book.imap.html">IMAP</a> — IMAP, POP3 and NNTP</li><li><a href="book.mail.html">Mail</a></li><li><a href="book.mailparse.html">Mailparse</a></li><li><a href="book.vpopmail.html">vpopmail</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="refs.math.html">Mathematical Extensions</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.bc.html">BC Math</a> — BCMath Arbitrary Precision Mathematics</li><li><a href="book.gmp.html">GMP</a> — GNU Multiple Precision</li><li><a href="book.lapack.html">Lapack</a></li><li><a href="book.math.html">Math</a> — Mathematical Functions</li><li><a href="book.stats.html">Statistics</a></li><li><a href="book.trader.html">Trader</a> — Technical Analysis for Traders</li></ul></li><li><a href="refs.utilspec.nontext.html">Non-Text MIME Output</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_set chunklist_children"><li><a href="book.fdf.html">FDF</a> — Forms Data Format</li><li><a href="book.gnupg.html">GnuPG</a> — GNU Privacy Guard</li><li><a href="book.haru.html">haru</a> — Haru PDF</li><li><a href="book.ming.html">Ming</a> — Ming 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