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Affecting PHP's Behaviour
APCu
— APC User Cache
Componere
Error Handling
— Error Handling and Logging
FFI
— Foreign Function Interface
OPcache
Output Control
— Output Buffering Control
PHP Options/Info
— PHP Options and Information
phpdbg
— Interactive PHP Debugger
runkit7
uopz
— User Operations for Zend
WinCache
— Windows Cache for PHP
Xhprof
— Hierarchical Profiler
Yac
Audio Formats Manipulation
OpenAL
— OpenAL Audio Bindings
Authentication Services
Radius
Command Line Specific Extensions
Readline
— GNU Readline
Compression and Archive Extensions
Bzip2
LZF
Phar
Rar
— Rar Archiving
Zip
Zlib
— Zlib Compression
Cryptography Extensions
Hash
— HASH Message Digest Framework
Mcrypt
Mhash
OpenSSL
Password Hashing
Rnp
Sodium
Database Extensions
Abstraction Layers
Vendor Specific Database Extensions
Date and Time Related Extensions
Calendar
Date/Time
— Date and Time
HRTime
— High resolution timing
File System Related Extensions
Direct IO
Directories
Fileinfo
— File Information
Filesystem
Inotify
xattr
xdiff
Human Language and Character Encoding Support
Enchant
— Enchant spelling library
Gender
— Determine gender of firstnames
Gettext
iconv
intl
— Internationalization Functions
Multibyte String
Pspell
Recode
— GNU Recode
Image Processing and Generation
Exif
— Exchangeable image information
GD
— Image Processing and GD
Gmagick
ImageMagick
— Image Processing (ImageMagick)
Mail Related Extensions
IMAP
— IMAP, POP3 and NNTP
Mail
Mailparse
Mathematical Extensions
BC Math
— BCMath Arbitrary Precision Mathematics
GMP
— GNU Multiple Precision
Math
— Mathematical Functions
Statistics
Trader
— Technical Analysis for Traders
Non-Text MIME Output
FDF
— Forms Data Format
GnuPG
— GNU Privacy Guard
wkhtmltox
PS
— PostScript document creation
RpmInfo
XLSWriter
Process Control Extensions
Eio
Ev
Expect
PCNTL
— Process Control
POSIX
Program execution
— System program execution
parallel
pthreads
Semaphore
— Semaphore, Shared Memory and IPC
Shared Memory
Sync
Other Basic Extensions
GeoIP
— Geo IP Location
FANN
— FANN (Fast Artificial Neural Network)
Igbinary
JSON
— JavaScript Object Notation
Simdjson
Lua
LuaSandbox
Misc.
— Miscellaneous Functions
Random
— Random Number Generators and Functions Related to Randomness
Seaslog
SPL
— Standard PHP Library (SPL)
Streams
Swoole
Tidy
Tokenizer
URLs
V8js
— V8 Javascript Engine Integration
Yaml
— YAML Data Serialization
Yaf
— Yet Another Framework
Yaconf
Taint
Data Structures
var_representation
Other Services
cURL
— Client URL Library
Event
FTP
Gearman
LDAP
— Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Memcache
Memcached
mqseries
Network
RRD
— RRDtool
ScoutAPM
SNMP
Sockets
SSH2
— Secure Shell2
Stomp
— Stomp Client
SVM
— Support Vector Machine
SVN
— Subversion
TCP
— TCP Wrappers
Varnish
YAZ
0MQ messaging
— ZMQ
ZooKeeper
Search Engine Extensions
Solr
— Apache Solr
Server Specific Extensions
Apache
FastCGI Process Manager
Session Extensions
Sessions
— Session Handling
Text Processing
CommonMark
Parle
— Parsing and lexing
PCRE
— Regular Expressions (Perl-Compatible)
ssdeep
— ssdeep Fuzzy Hashing
Strings
Variable and Type Related Extensions
Arrays
Classes/Objects
— Class/Object Information
Ctype
— Character type checking
Filter
— Data Filtering
Function Handling
Quickhash
Reflection
Variable handling
Web Services
OAuth
SOAP
Yar
— Yet Another RPC Framework
XML-RPC
Windows Only Extensions
COM
— COM and .Net (Windows)
win32service
XML Manipulation
DOM
— Document Object Model
libxml
SimpleXML
WDDX
XMLDiff
— XML diff and merge
XML Parser
XMLReader
XMLWriter
XSL
GUI Extensions
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