New Functions
PHP 5.3 introduced some new functions:
PHP Core:
Date/Time:
GMP:
Hash:
IMAP:
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imap_gc()
- Clears IMAP cache.
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imap_utf8_to_mutf7()
- Encode a UTF-8 string to modified UTF-7.
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imap_mutf7_to_utf8()
- Decode a modified UTF-7 string to UTF-8.
JSON:
MySQL Improved:
OpenSSL:
PCNTL:
PCRE:
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preg_filter()
- Perform a regular expression search and replace, returning only results
which matched the pattern.
Semaphore:
The following functions are now natively implemented, making them available
on all operating systems which can run PHP: