Add basic Extension docs

cytopia · cytopia · commit 91943783d8f0 · 2022-11-30T08:15:42.000+01:00
diff --git a/php_modules/amqp/README.md b/php_modules/amqp/README.md
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+# amqp
+
+Object-oriented PHP bindings for the AMQP C library (https://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c)
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| GitHub   | https://github.com/php-amqp/php-amqp                             |
+| Pecl     | https://pecl.php.net/package/amqp                                |
diff --git a/php_modules/apcu/README.md b/php_modules/apcu/README.md
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+# apcu
+
+APCu is an in-memory key-value store for PHP.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.apcu                          |
+| GitHub   | https://github.com/krakjoe/apcu                                  |
+| Pecl     | https://pecl.php.net/package/apcu                                |
diff --git a/php_modules/bcmath/README.md b/php_modules/bcmath/README.md
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+# bcmath
+
+For arbitrary precision mathematics PHP offers BCMath which supports numbers of any size and precision up to 2147483647 (or 0x7FFFFFFF) decimal digits, if there is sufficient memory, represented as strings.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.bc.php                        |
diff --git a/php_modules/blackfire/README.md b/php_modules/blackfire/README.md
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+# blackfire
+
+Blackfire helps to improve web applications’ performance at each step of its lifecycle: from development to test, staging and production.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| Vendor   | https://blackfire.io/docs/up-and-running/installation            |
diff --git a/php_modules/bz2/README.md b/php_modules/bz2/README.md
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+# bz2
+
+The bzip2 functions are used to transparently read and write bzip2 (.bz2) compressed files.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.bzip2.php                     |
diff --git a/php_modules/calendar/README.md b/php_modules/calendar/README.md
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+# calendar
+
+The calendar extension presents a series of functions to simplify converting between different calendar formats.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.calendar.php                  |
diff --git a/php_modules/ctype/README.md b/php_modules/ctype/README.md
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+# ctype
+
+The functions provided by this extension check whether a character or string falls into a certain character class according to the current locale.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.ctype.php                     |
diff --git a/php_modules/curl/README.md b/php_modules/curl/README.md
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+# 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.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php                      |
diff --git a/php_modules/dba/README.md b/php_modules/dba/README.md
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+# dba
+
+These functions build the foundation for accessing Berkeley DB style databases.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.dba.php                       |
diff --git a/php_modules/dom/README.md b/php_modules/dom/README.md
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+# dom
+
+The DOM extension allows you to operate on XML documents through the DOM API with PHP.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php                       |
diff --git a/php_modules/enchant/README.md b/php_modules/enchant/README.md
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+# enchant
+
+Enchant is the PHP binding for the Enchant library. Enchant steps in to provide uniformity and conformity on top of all spelling libraries, and implement certain features that may be lacking in any individual provider library.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.enchant.php                   |
diff --git a/php_modules/exif/README.md b/php_modules/exif/README.md
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+# exif
+
+With the exif extension you are able to work with image meta data.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.exif.php                      |
diff --git a/php_modules/ffi/README.md b/php_modules/ffi/README.md
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+# ffi
+
+This extension allows the loading of shared libraries (.DLL or .so), calling of C functions and accessing of C data structures in pure PHP, without having to have deep knowledge of the Zend extension API, and without having to learn a third “intermediate” language.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.ffi.php                       |
diff --git a/php_modules/fileinfo/README.md b/php_modules/fileinfo/README.md
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+# fileinfo
+
+The functions in this module try to guess the content type and encoding of a file by looking for certain magic byte sequences at specific positions within the file.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.fileinfo.php                  |
diff --git a/php_modules/filter/README.md b/php_modules/filter/README.md
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+# filter
+
+This extension filters data by either validating or sanitizing it. This is especially useful when the data source contains unknown (or foreign) data, like user supplied input. For example, this data may come from an HTML form.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.filter.php                    |
diff --git a/php_modules/ftp/README.md b/php_modules/ftp/README.md
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+# ftp
+
+The functions in this extension implement client access to files servers speaking the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) as defined in http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc959.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.ftp.php                       |
diff --git a/php_modules/gd/README.md b/php_modules/gd/README.md
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+# gd
+
+PHP is not limited to creating just HTML output. It can also be used to create and manipulate image files in a variety of different image formats, including GIF, PNG, JPEG, WBMP, and XPM. Even more conveniently, PHP can output image streams directly to a browser. You will need to compile PHP with the GD library of image functions for this to work. GD and PHP may also require other libraries, depending on which image formats you want to work with.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.image.php                     |
diff --git a/php_modules/gettext/README.md b/php_modules/gettext/README.md
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+# gettext
+
+The gettext functions implement an NLS (Native Language Support) API which can be used to internationalize your PHP applications.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.gettext.php                   |
diff --git a/php_modules/gmp/README.md b/php_modules/gmp/README.md
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+# gmp
+
+These functions allow for arbitrary-length integers to be worked with using the GNU MP library.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.gmp.php                       |
diff --git a/php_modules/hash/README.md b/php_modules/hash/README.md
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+# hash
+
+Message Digest (hash) engine. Allows direct or incremental processing of arbitrary length messages using a variety of hashing algorithms.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.hash.php                      |
diff --git a/php_modules/iconv/README.md b/php_modules/iconv/README.md
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+# iconv
+
+This module contains an interface to iconv character set conversion facility. 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.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.iconv.php                     |
diff --git a/php_modules/igbinary/README.md b/php_modules/igbinary/README.md
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+# igbinary
+
+Igbinary is a drop in replacement for the standard PHP serializer. Instead of the time and space consuming textual representation used by PHP's serialize(), igbinary stores PHP data structures in a compact binary form. Memory savings are significant when using memcached, APCu, or similar memory based storages for serialized data. The typical reduction in storage requirements are around 50%. The exact percentage depends on the data.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.igbinary.php                  |
diff --git a/php_modules/imagick/README.md b/php_modules/imagick/README.md
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+# imagick
+
+Imagick is a native php extension to create and modify images using the ImageMagick API.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.imagick.php                   |
diff --git a/php_modules/imap/README.md b/php_modules/imap/README.md
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+# imap
+
+These functions enable you to operate with the IMAP protocol, as well as the NNTP, POP3 and local mailbox access methods.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php                      |
diff --git a/php_modules/interbase/README.md b/php_modules/interbase/README.md
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+# interbase
+
+This extension supports InterBase versions 6 and up and Firebird version 2.0 and up.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.ibase.php                     |
diff --git a/php_modules/intl/README.md b/php_modules/intl/README.md
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+# intl
+
+Internationalization extension (further is referred as Intl) is a wrapper for ICU library, enabling PHP programmers to perform various locale-aware operations including but not limited to formatting, transliteration, encoding conversion, calendar operations, » UCA-conformant collation, locating text boundaries and working with locale identifiers, timezones and graphemes.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.intl.php                      |
diff --git a/php_modules/ioncube/README.md b/php_modules/ioncube/README.md
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+# ioncube
+
+Version 12.0 of the ionCube PHP Encoder is the industry standard solution to protect PHP scripts, making it quick, simple and easy to protect your PHP source code from observation, theft and change.
+
+The ionCube Encoder compiles sourcecode to bytecode, can obfuscate and encrypt compiled code if desired, and has features to protect decryption keys in various ways, including a unique approach of algorithmic non-stored keys we call Dynamic Keys.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| Vendor   | https://www.ioncube.com/php_encoder.php                          |
diff --git a/php_modules/json/README.md b/php_modules/json/README.md
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+# json
+
+This extension implements the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data-interchange format. PHP comes with a parser that is specifically written for PHP and licensed under the PHP license.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.json.php                      |
diff --git a/php_modules/ldap/README.md b/php_modules/ldap/README.md
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+# 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.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.ldap.php                      |
diff --git a/php_modules/libxml/README.md b/php_modules/libxml/README.md
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+# libxml
+
+These functions/constants are available as of PHP 5.1.0, and the following core extensions rely on this libxml extension: DOM, libxml, SimpleXML, SOAP, WDDX, XSL, XML, XMLReader, XMLRPC and XMLWriter.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.libxml.php                    |
diff --git a/php_modules/mbstring/README.md b/php_modules/mbstring/README.md
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+# mbstring
+
+mbstring provides multibyte specific string functions that help you deal with multibyte encodings in PHP. In addition to that, mbstring handles character encoding conversion between the possible encoding pairs. mbstring is designed to handle Unicode-based encodings such as UTF-8 and UCS-2 and many single-byte encodings for convenience.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.mbstring.php                  |
diff --git a/php_modules/mcrypt/README.md b/php_modules/mcrypt/README.md
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+# mcrypt
+
+This is an interface to the mcrypt library, which supports a wide variety of block algorithms such as DES, TripleDES, Blowfish (default), 3-WAY, SAFER-SK64, SAFER-SK128, TWOFISH, TEA, RC2 and GOST in CBC, OFB, CFB and ECB cipher modes. Additionally, it supports RC6 and IDEA which are considered "non-free". CFB/OFB are 8bit by default.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.mcrypt.php                    |
diff --git a/php_modules/memcache/README.md b/php_modules/memcache/README.md
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+# memcache
+
+Memcache module provides handy procedural and object-oriented interface to memcached, highly effective caching daemon, which was especially designed to decrease database load in dynamic web applications.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.memcache.php                  |
diff --git a/php_modules/memcached/README.md b/php_modules/memcached/README.md
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+# memcached
+
+This extension uses the libmemcached library to provide an API for communicating with memcached servers. It also provides a session handler (memcached).
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.memcached.php                 |
diff --git a/php_modules/mhash/README.md b/php_modules/mhash/README.md
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+# mhash
+
+This is an interface to the mhash library. Mhash supports a wide variety of hash algorithms such as MD5, SHA1, GOST, and many others. For a complete list of supported hashes, refer to the constants page. The general rule is that you can access the hash algorithm from PHP with MHASH_hashname. For example, to access TIGER you use the PHP constant MHASH_TIGER.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.mhash.php                     |
diff --git a/php_modules/mongo/README.md b/php_modules/mongo/README.md
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+# mongo
+
+The legacy MongoDB PHP driver
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| GitHub   | https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-driver-legacy               |
+| Pecl     | https://pecl.php.net/package/mongo                               |
diff --git a/php_modules/mongodb/README.md b/php_modules/mongodb/README.md
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+# mongodb
+
+This extension is developed atop the libmongoc and libbson libraries. It provides a minimal API for core driver functionality: commands, queries, writes, connection management, and BSON serialization.
+
+| Platform | Url                                                              |
+|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| PHP.net  | https://www.php.net/manual/en/set.mongodb.php                    |
+| Pecl     | https://pecl.php.net/package/mongodb                             |
