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the functions are the additional code needed to compleate your project in minimum time, as in any other language.

there are a lot of tutorials in the net to teach u how to embed in the program.

these are the list of function catagories available int the site php.net (the official php site)
Affecting PHP’s Behaviour
APC — Alternative PHP Cache
APD — Advanced PHP debugger
bcompiler — PHP bytecode Compiler
Errors and Logging
Object overloading — Object property and method call overloading
Output Control
PHP Options/Info — PHP Options&Information
runkit — runkit Functions
Audio Formats Manipulation
ID3
oggvorbis — OGG/Vorbis
OpenAL Audio Bindings
Authentication Services
KADM5
Radius
Calendar and Event Related Extensions
Calendar
Date and Time
Command Line Specific Extensions
Newt
Ncurses Terminal Screen Control
GNU Readline
Compression and Archive Extensions
Bzip2 Compression
LZF
Phar
RAR
Zip
Zlib
Credit Card Processing
MCVE
SPPLUS — SPPLUS Payment System functions
Cryptography Extensions
Crack
hash
Mcrypt Encryption
Mhash
OpenSSL
Database Extensions
Abstraction Layers
Vendor Specific Database Extensions
File System Related Extensions
Direct IO Functions
Directories — Directory Functions
Fileinfo
Filesystem
Mimetype
xattr
xdiff
Human Language and Character Encoding Support
enchant
FriBiDi
Gettext
i18n
iconv
intl — Internationalization Functions
Multibyte String
Pspell
GNU Recode
Unicode
Image Processing and Generation
Exif
Image
Imagick Image Library
Mail Related Extensions
Cyrus IMAP
IMAP, POP3 and NNTP
Mail
Mailparse
vpopmail
Mathematical Extensions
BC Math — BCMath Arbitrary Precision Mathematics
GMP — GNU Multiple Precision
Math — Mathematical Functions
Statistics
Non-Text MIME Output
Forms Data Format Functions
gnupg
haru — Haru PDF
Ming (flash)
PDF
PostScript document creation
RPM Header Reading
Shockwave Flash
swish
Process Control Extensions
Program Execution
Expect
PCNTL
POSIX
Semaphore
Shared Memory
Other Basic Extensions
GeoIP — GeoIP Functions
JSON — JSON Functions
Misc. — Miscellaneous Functions
Parsekit
SPL — Standard PHP Library (SPL)
Streams — Stream Functions
Tidy
Tokenizer — Tokenizer Functions
URLs — URL Functions
Other Services
CURL
File Alteration Monitor
FTP
Hyperwave
Hyperwave API
HTTP
Java
LDAP
Lotus Notes
Memcache
mnoGoSearch
mqseries
Net Gopher
Network
Simple Asynchronous Messaging
SNMP
Sockets
Secure Shell2 Functions
Subversion
TCP Wrappers
YAZ
YP/NIS
Server Specific Extensions
Apache
IIS Administration
NSAPI
Session Extensions
Msession — Mohawk Software Session Handler Functions
Sessions — Session Handling Functions
Session PgSQL — PostgreSQL Session Save Handler
Text Processing
BBCode — BBCode Functions
PCRE — Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible)
POSIX Regex — Regular Expression Functions (POSIX Extended)
Strings — String Functions
Variable and Type Related Extensions
Arrays — Array Functions
Classes/Objects — Class/Object Functions
Classkit — Classkit Functions
ctype — Character Type Functions
Filter — Filter Functions
Function handling — Function Handling Functions
Object Aggregation — Object Aggregation/Composition Functions
Variables handling — Variable Handling Functions
Web Services
SOAP
XML-RPC
Windows Only Extensions
.NET
COM — COM and .Net (Windows)
Printer
W32api
win32ps
win32service
XML Manipulation
DOM — DOM Extension
DOM XML
libxml
qtdom
SCA
SDO XML Data Access Service
SimpleXML
WDDX
XML Parser
XMLReader
XMLWriter
XSL
XSLT

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