Thesaurus¶

Acronym¶

List of acronyms, used in this dictionary.

Attribute¶

List of PHP native attributes.

Concept¶

List of concept, which are applied to PHP, but not exclusive to it.

Control flow¶

List of command to control the flow of a program.

Directive¶

List of configuration directives of PHP. They may be used in php.ini, ini_set()/ini_get() or other configuration files.

Keyword¶

List of PHP keywords and reserved names.

Language construct¶

List of the PHP language construct: they look like a function, but are more special.

Type¶

List of PHP types, used with the type system. They usually are not related to a class.

Magic method¶

List of PHP magic method, which are providing special behavior throught the definition of a method with a special signature.

Classic bug¶

List of named bugs.

Token¶

List of strings (characters, names), which are PHP tokens: they are useful to parse code.

Folklore¶

List of things that seems unrelated to PHP, but, suprisingly, are.

Character¶

List of single characters, and their special usage.

Disambiguation¶

List of concepts that cover several fields, and usually require extra details to avoid confusion.

Unsupported¶

List of features supported in other languages, but not natively by PHP

Adjective¶

List of adjective that are used with several distinct noun, and carry similar concept in different aspects of software science.

Animal¶

List of animals in the PHP ecosystem and its folklore.