Plain Text List of PHP Functions and Their Arguments

I scoured the web looking for a simple list of all the PHP functions and their arguments. After a lot of searching, I couldn't find the list I wanted. So, I downloaded the PHP docs and wrote a little PHP program to create a list of function names.

This list might be useful to PHP programmers who want a quick reference for a specific function. For example, I plan to write another program that will do quick function lookups using this list.

It may also be useful as a ctag file.

Here's the PHP program that I used to generate the list of functions and arguments. It's a bit of a hack, but I was in a hurry.

functions.php

You can download the full list here.

phpfunc.txt

Here's the program I wrote to quickly lookup a PHP function (or any function matching part of a word).

phpref.php

To run the program, just make it executable and run the following:

phpref.php <word>

A user contributed the following Python version to me in a comment on my blog. The comment is below.

hi, I read your wiki:

http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/php:plain_text_list_of_php_functions_and_their_arguments

and I improve the script and put it here:

https://github.com/simon-liu/php-api-signature

please check it. thanks.