PHP Cheat Sheet

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PHP Array Functions PHP Filesystem Functions Regular Expres​sions Syntax

array_diff (arr1, arr2 ...) clearstatcache () ^ Start of string

array_filter (arr, function) copy (source, dest) $ End of string
array_flip (arr) fclose (handle) . Any single character

array_intersect (arr1, arr2 ...) fgets (handle, len) (a|b) a or b

array_merge (arr1, arr2 ...) file (file) (...) Group section
array_pop (arr) filemtime (file) [abc] In range (a, b or c)
array_push (arr, var1, var2 ...) filesize (file) [^abc] Not in range
array_reverse (arr) file_exists (file) \s White space
array_search (needle, arr) fopen (file, mode) a? Zero or one of a
array_walk (arr, function) fread (handle, len) a* Zero or more of a
count (count) fwrite (handle, str) a*? Zero or more, ungreedy

in_array (needle, haystack) readfile (file) a+ One or more of a

a+? One or more, ungreedy
PHP String Functions PHP Date and Time Functions
a{3} Exactly 3 of a
crypt (str, salt) checkdate (month, day, year)
a{3,} 3 or more of a
explode (sep, str) date (format, timestamp)
a{,6} Up to 6 of a
implode (glue, arr) getdate (timestamp)
a{3,6} 3 to 6 of a
nl2br (str) mktime (hr, min, sec, month, day, yr)
a{3,6}? 3 to 6 of a, ungreedy
sprintf (frmt, args) strftime (formatstring, timestamp)
\ Escape character
strip_tags (str, allowed_tags) strtotime (str)
[:punct:] Any punctu​ation symbol
str_replace (search, replace, str) time ()
[:space:] Any space character
strpos (str, needle)
[:blank:] Space or tab
PHP Regular Expres​sions Functions
strrev (str)
There's an excellent regular expression
ereg (pattern, str)
strstr (str, needle) tester at: http:/​/re​gex​pal.com/
split (pattern, str)
strtolower (str)
ereg_replace (pattern, replace, str) Pattern Modifiers
strtoupper (str)
preg_grep (pattern, arr) g Global match
substr (string, start, len)
preg_match (pattern, str) i* Case-i​nse​nsitive
preg_match_all (pattern, str, arr) m* Multiple lines
preg_replace (pattern, replace, str) s* Treat string as single line
preg_split (pattern, str) x* Allow comments and whitespace in
pattern

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 PHP Cheat Sheet
by Dave Child (DaveChild) via cheatography.com/1/cs/2/

Pattern Modifiers (cont) PHP Date Formatting (cont)

e* Evaluate replac​ement t Days in month (28 to 31)

U* Ungreedy pattern
a am or pm
* PCRE modifier
A AM or PM
PHP fopen() Modes B Swatch Internet Time (000 to 999)
r Read S Ordinal Suffix (st, nd, rd, th)
r+ Read and write, prepend
w Write, truncate T Timezone of machine (GMT)

w+ Read and write, truncate Z Timezone offset (seconds)

a Write, append O GMT offset (hours) (+0200)

a+ Read and write, append I Daylight saving (1 or 0)

L Leap year (1 or 0)
PHP Date Formatting

Y 4 digit year (2008) U Seconds since Epoch ³

y 2 digit year (08) c ISO 8601 (PHP 5) (2008-​07-​31T​18:​‐

30:​13+​01:00)
F Long month (January)
r RFC 2822 (Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:30:13
M Short month (Jan)
+0100)
m Month ⁴ (01 to 12)
¹ 0 is Sunday, 6 is Saturday.
n Month (1 to 12)
² Week that overlaps two years belongs to
D Short day name (Mon)
year that contains most days of that week.
l Long day name (Monday) (lowercase Hence week number for 1st January of a
L) given year can be 53 if week belongs to
d Day ⁴ (01 to 31) previous year. date("W​", mktime(0, 0, 0, 12,
8, $year)) always gives correct number of
j Day (1 to 31)
weeks in $year.
³ The Epoch is the 1st January 1970.
h 12 Hour ⁴ (01 to 12)
⁴ With leading zeroes
g 12 Hour (1 to 12)
H 24 Hour ⁴ (00 to 23)
G 24 Hour (0 to 23)
i Minutes ⁴ (00 to 59)
s Seconds ⁴ (00 to 59)

w Day of week ¹ (0 to 6)
z Day of year (0 to 365)
W Week of year ² (1 to 53)

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