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These words have special meaning in PHP. Some of them are like functions, some of them are like constants... but they're not, they're just part of the language structure. You cannot use any of them as constants, method names, or class names. It is possible to use them as variable names, but this can lead to confusion.
PHP keywords
and or xor __FILE__ exception (PHP 5)
__LINE__ array() as break case
class const continue declare default
die() do echo else elseif
empty() enddeclare endfor endforeach endif
endswitch endwhile eval() exit() extends
for foreach function global if
include include_once isset() list() new
print require require_once return static
switch unset() use var while
__FUNCTION__ __CLASS__ __METHOD__ final (PHP 5) php_user_filter (PHP 5)
interface (PHP 5) implements (PHP 5) extends public ( PHP 5) private (PHP 5)
protected (PHP 5) abstract (PHP 5) clone (PHP 5) try (PHP 5) catch (PHP 5)
throw (PHP 5) cfunction (PHP 4 only) this (PHP 5 only)
Predefined classes
section lists standard predefined classes. Various extension libraries define other classes, which are described in their respective reference documentation.
Standard Classes
These classes are defined by some standard functions built into PHP.
Directory
Created by dir().
stdClass
__PHP_Incomplete_Class
Predefined classes since PHP 5
These additional predefined classes were introduced in PHP 5.0.0 of.
exception
php_user_filter
Closure
PHP5.3.0 introduces a predefined final class Closure, which can be used to implement anonymous functions
Constructor method of this class Manual creation of objects of this class is prohibited (resulting in an E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR error). This class also has an __invoke method to make magic calls.
Special classes
The following tags cannot be used as class names because they have special uses.
self
parent
Predefined constants
Kernel predefined constants
These constants are defined in the kernel of PHP. It contains PHP, Zend Engine and SAPI modules.
PHP_VERSION (string)
PHP_OS (string)
PHP_SAPI (string)
Available since PHP 4.2.0. See php_sapi_name().
PHP_EOL (string)
Available since PHP 4.3.10 and PHP 5.0.2
PHP_INT_MAX (integer)
Available since PHP 4.4.0 and PHP 5.0.5
PHP_INT_SIZE (integer) )
Available since PHP 4.4.0 and PHP 5.0.5
DEFAULT_INCLUDE_PATH (string)
PEAR_INSTALL_DIR (string)
PEAR_EXTENSION_DIR (string)
PHP_EXTENSION_DIR (string)
PHP_PREFIX (string )
Available since PHP 4.3.0
PHP_BINDIR (string)
PHP_LIBDIR (string)
PHP_DATADIR (string)
PHP_SYSCONFDIR (string)
PHP_LOCALSTATEDIR (string)
PHP_CONFIG_FILE_PATH (string)
PHP_CONFIG_FILE_SCAN_DIR (string)
PHP_SHLIB_SUFFIX (string)
Available since PHP 4.3.0
PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_START (integer)
PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_CONT (integer)
PHP_OUTPUT_ HANDLER_END (integer)
E_ERROR (integer)
E_WARNING (integer)
E_PARSE (integer)
E_NOTICE (integer)
E_CORE_ERROR (integer)
E_CORE_WARNING (integer)
E_COMPILE_ERROR (integer)
E_COMPILE_WARNING (integer)
E_USER_ERROR (integer)
E_USER_WARNING (integer)
E_USER_NOTICE (integer)
E_ALL (integer)
E_STRICT (integer)
Valid from PHP 5.0.0
__COMPILER_HALT_OFFSET__ (integer)
Valid since PHP 5.1.0
See magic constants.
Standard predefined constants
These constants are defined by PHP by default.
EXTR_OVERWRITE (integer)
EXTR_SKIP (integer)
EXTR_PREFIX_SAME (integer)
EXTR_PREFIX_ALL (integer)
EXTR_PREFIX_INVALID (integer)
EXTR_PREFIX_IF_EXISTS (integer)
EXTR_IF_EXISTS (integer)
SORT_ASC (integer)
SORT_DESC (integer)
SORT_REGULAR (integer)
SORT_NUMERIC (integer)
SORT_STRING (integer)
CASE_LOWER (integer)
CASE_UPPER (integer)
COUNT_NORMAL (integer)
COUNT_RECURSIVE (integer)
ASSERT_ACTIVE (integer)
ASSERT_CALLBACK (integer)
ASSERT_BAIL (integer)
ASSERT_WARNING (integer)
ASSERT_QUIET_EVAL (integer)
CONNECTION_ABORTED (integer)
CONNECTION_NORMAL (integer)
CONNECTION_TIMEOUT (integer)
INI_USER (integer)
INI_PERDIR (integer)
INI_SYSTEM (integer)
INI_ALL (integer)
M_E (float)
M_LOG2E (float)
M_LOG10E (float)
M_LN2 (float)
M_LN10 (float)
M_PI (float)
M_PI_2 (float)
M_PI_4 (float)
M_1_PI (float)
M_2_PI (float)
M_2_SQRTPI (float)
M_SQRT2 (float)
M_SQRT1_2 (float)
CRYPT_SALT_LENGTH (integer)
CRYPT_STD_DES (integer)
CRYPT_EXT_DES (integer)
CRYPT_MD5 (integer)
CRYPT_BLOWFISH (integer)
DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR (string)
SEEK_SET (integer)
SEEK_CUR (integer)
SEEK_END (integer)
LOCK_SH (integer)
LOCK_EX (integer)
LOCK_UN (integer)
LOCK_NB (integer)
HTML_SPECIALCHARS (integer)
HTML_ENTITIES (integer)
ENT_COMPAT (integer)
ENT_QUOTES (integer)
ENT_NOQUOTES (integer)
INFO_GENERAL (integer)
INFO_CREDITS (integer)
INFO_CONFIGURATION (integer)
INFO_MODULES (integer)
INFO_ENVIRONMENT (integer)
INFO_VARIABLES (integer)
INFO_LICENSE (integer)
INFO_ALL (integer)
CREDITS_GROUP (integer)
CREDITS_GENERAL (integer)
CREDITS_SAPI (integer)
CREDITS_MODULES (integer)
CREDITS_DOCS (integer)
CREDITS_FULLPAGE (integer)
CREDITS_QA (integer)
CREDITS_ALL (integer)
STR_PAD_LEFT (integer)
STR_PAD_RIGHT (integer)
STR_PAD_BOTH (integer)
PATHINFO_DIRNAME (integer)
PATHINFO_BASENAME (integer)
PATHINFO_EXTENSION (integer)
PATH_SEPARATOR (string)
CHAR_MAX (integer)
LC_CTYPE (integer)
LC_NUMERIC (integer)
LC_TIME (integer)
LC_COLLATE (integer)
LC_MONETARY (integer)
LC_ALL (integer)
LC_MESSAGES (integer)
ABDAY_1 (integer)
ABDAY_2 (integer)
ABDAY_3 (integer)
ABDAY_4 (integer)
ABDAY_5 (integer)
ABDAY_6 (integer)
ABDAY_7 (integer)
DAY_1 (integer)
DAY_2 (integer)
DAY_3 (integer)
DAY_4 (integer)
DAY_5 (integer)
DAY_6 (integer)
DAY_7 (integer)
ABMON_1 (integer)
ABMON_2 (integer)
ABMON_3 (integer)
ABMON_4 (integer)
ABMON_5 (integer)
ABMON_6 (integer)
ABMON_7 (integer)
ABMON_8 (integer)
ABMON_9 (integer)
ABMON_10 (integer)
ABMON_11 (integer)
ABMON_12 (integer)
MON_1 (integer)
MON_2 (integer)
MON_3 (integer)
MON_4 (integer)
MON_5 (integer)
MON_6 (integer)
MON_7 (integer)
MON_8 (integer)
MON_9 (integer)
MON_10 (integer)
MON_11 (integer)
MON_12 (integer)
AM_STR (integer)
PM_STR (integer)
D_T_FMT (integer)
D_FMT (integer)
T_FMT (integer)
T_FMT_AMPM (integer)
ERA (integer)
ERA_YEAR (integer)
ERA_D_T_FMT (integer)
ERA_D_FMT (integer)
ERA_T_FMT (integer)
ALT_DIGITS (integer)
INT_CURR_SYMBOL (integer)
CURRENCY_SYMBOL (integer)
CRNCYSTR (integer)
MON_DECIMAL_POINT (integer)
MON_THOUSANDS_SEP (integer)
MON_GROUPING (integer)
POSITIVE_SIGN (integer)
NEGATIVE_SIGN (integer)
INT_FRAC_DIGITS (integer)
FRAC_DIGITS (integer)
P_CS_PRECEDES (integer)
P_SEP_BY_SPACE (integer)
N_CS_PRECEDES (integer)
N_SEP_BY_SPACE (integer)
P_SIGN_POSN (integer)
N_SIGN_POSN (integer)
DECIMAL_POINT (integer)
RADIXCHAR (integer)
THOUSANDS_SEP (integer)
THOUSEP (integer)
GROUPING (integer)
YESEXPR (integer)
NOEXPR (integer)
YESSTR (integer)
NOSTR (integer)
CODESET (integer)
LOG_EMERG (integer)
LOG_ALERT (integer)
LOG_CRIT (integer)
LOG_ERR (integer)
LOG_WARNING (integer)
LOG_NOTICE (integer)
LOG_INFO (integer)
LOG_DEBUG (integer)
LOG_KERN (integer)
LOG_USER (integer)
LOG_MAIL (integer)
LOG_DAEMON (integer)
LOG_AUTH (integer)
LOG_SYSLOG (integer)
LOG_LPR (integer)
LOG_NEWS (integer)
LOG_UUCP (integer)
LOG_CRON (integer)
LOG_AUTHPRIV (integer)
LOG_LOCAL0 (integer)
LOG_LOCAL1 (integer)
LOG_LOCAL2 (integer)
LOG_LOCAL3 (integer)
LOG_LOCAL4 (integer)
LOG_LOCAL5 (integer)
LOG_LOCAL6 (integer)
LOG_LOCAL7 (integer)
LOG_PID (integer)
LOG_CONS (integer)
LOG_ODELAY (integer)
LOG_NDELAY (integer)
LOG_NOWAIT (integer)
LOG_PERROR (integer)