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the proliferation of options this port has. This needs no external libraries, so it doesn't introduce any dependencies (jakob@ ok)
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At the most basic level, PHP can do anything any other CGI program
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can do, such as collect form data, generate dynamic page content,
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or send and receive cookies.
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PHP also has support for talking to other services using protocols
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such as IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, or even HTTP. You can also open
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raw network sockets and interact using other protocols.
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PHP has a number of extra flavors available:
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- curl Client URL library functions (gopher, dict, ldap, etc)
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- gettext GNU gettext support for internationalisation
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- imap Mail and message access functions (IMAP, POP3, NTTP)
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- ldap Access to LDAP-compliant Directory Services
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- mhash Hashing functions such as MD5, SHA1, etc
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- mcrypt Interface to block and stream encryption algorithms
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- mm Shared memory support for session storage
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- recode GNU Recode support for character set conversion
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- snmp Simple Network Management Protocol access functions
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- gd Generate PNG or JPEG images on the fly
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- pdflib Generate Adobe PDF documents dynamically
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In addition, the following database flavors are supported:
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gdbm, dbase, filepro, mysql, postgresql, and iodbc
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If you wish to compile PHP without X, use the no_x11 flavor.
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WWW: ${HOMEPAGE}
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