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PHP Zip File Functions

PHP Zip File Introduction
The Zip files functions allows you to read ZIP files.

Installation
For the Zip file functions to work on your server, these libraries must be installed:

The ZZIPlib library by Guido Draheim: Download the ZZIPlib library
The Zip PELC extension: Download the Zip PELC extension

Installation on Linux Systems
PHP 5+: Zip functions and the [...]

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PHP XML Parser Functions

The XML functions lets you parse, but not validate, XML documents.
XML is a data format for standardized structured document exchange. More information on XML can be found in our XML Tutorial.
This extension uses the Expat XML parser.
Expat is an event-based parser, it views an XML document as a series of events. When [...]

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PHP String Functions

PHP String Introduction
The string functions allow you to manipulate strings.

Installation
The string functions are part of the PHP core. There is no installation needed to use these functions.

PHP String Functions
PHP: indicates the earliest version of PHP that supports the function.

Function
Description
PHP

addcslashes()
Returns a string with backslashes in front of the specified characters
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addslashes()
Returns a [...]

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PHP SimpleXML Functions

PHP SimpleXML Introduction
The SimpleXML functions lets you convert XML to an object.
This object can be processed, like any other object, with normal property selectors and array iterators.
Some of these functions requires the newest PHP build.

Installation
The SimpleXML functions are part of the PHP core. There is no installation needed to use these functions.

PHP SimpleXML [...]

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