(PHP 4, PHP 5 < 5.2.0, PECL hwapi SVN) Locks an object bool hw_api::lock ( array $parameter ) Locks an object for exclusive editing by the user calling this function. The object can be only unlocked by this user or the system user. Parameters: parameter The parameter array contains the required element 'objectIdentifier' and the optional parameters 'mode' and 'objectqu

(PHP 5, PHP 7) Interprets an XML file into an object SimpleXMLElement simplexml_load_file ( string $filename [, string $class_name = "SimpleXMLElement" [, int $options = 0 [, string $ns = "" [, bool $is_prefix = false ]]]] ) Convert the well-formed XML document in the given file to an object. Parameters: filename Path to the XML file Note: Libxml 2 unescapes the

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PECL intl >= 1.0.0) Function to extract a sequence of default grapheme clusters from a text buffer, which must be encoded in UTF-8. string grapheme_extract ( string $haystack, int $size [, int $extract_type [, int $start = 0 [, int &$next ]]] ) Procedural style Function to extract a sequence of default grapheme clusters from a text buffer, which must be encoded in UTF-8. Pa

(PECL sam >= 0.1.0) Create a subscription to a specified topic. string SAMConnection::subscribe ( string $targetTopic ) The "subscribe" method is used to create a new subscription to a specified topic. Parameters: targetTopic The identity of the topic (topic://topicname) to subscribe to. Returns: A subscription identifier that can be used in

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5, PHP 7) Finds whether a variable is NULL bool is_null ( mixed $var ) Finds whether the given variable is NULL. Parameters: var The variable being evaluated. Returns: Returns TRUE if var is null, FALSE otherwise. Examples: is_null() example <

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.7, PHP 5 < 5.3.0, PECL ncurses >= 1.0.0) Set active foreground and background colors int ncurses_color_set ( int $pair ) Sets the active foreground and background colors. Any characters written after this function is invoked will have these colors. This function requires terminal colors to be supported and initialized using ncurses_start_color() beforehand. ncurses uses color pairs to specify both fo

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5, PHP 7) List all output handlers in use array ob_list_handlers ( void ) Lists all output handlers in use. Returns: This will return an array with the output handlers in use (if any). If output_buffering is enabled or an anonymous function was used with ob_start(), ob_list_handlers() will return "default output handler". Ex

(PECL gmagick >= Unknown) Annotates an image with text public Gmagick Gmagick::annotateimage ( GmagickDraw $GmagickDraw, float $x, float $y, float $angle, string $text ) Annotates an image with text. Parameters: GmagickDraw The GmagickDraw object that contains settings for drawing the text x Horizontal offset in pixels to the left of

(PHP 5, PHP 7) To string public string ReflectionFunction::__toString ( void ) To string. Returns: Returns ReflectionFunction::export()-like output for the function. Examples: ReflectionFunction::__toString() example <?php function title($title, $name) {     return sprintf("%s. %s\r\n", $title, $name); } echo new Refl

(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PHP 7) Sets the flags. public void RegexIterator::setFlags ( int $flags ) Sets the flags. Parameters: flags The flags to set, a bitmask of class constants. The available flags are listed below. The actual meanings of these flags are described in the predefined constants. RegexIterator flags value constant 1 RegexIterator::USE_KEY Returns: