openbsd-ports/www/php4/pkg/DESCR
avsm 34a18dc3f1 Remove the 'ftp' flavour and fold it into the default options, to reduce
the proliferation of options this port has.  This needs no external
libraries, so it doesn't introduce any dependencies (jakob@ ok)
2001-01-28 14:54:59 +00:00

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At the most basic level, PHP can do anything any other CGI program
can do, such as collect form data, generate dynamic page content,
or send and receive cookies.
PHP also has support for talking to other services using protocols
such as IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, or even HTTP. You can also open
raw network sockets and interact using other protocols.
PHP has a number of extra flavors available:
- curl Client URL library functions (gopher, dict, ldap, etc)
- gettext GNU gettext support for internationalisation
- imap Mail and message access functions (IMAP, POP3, NTTP)
- ldap Access to LDAP-compliant Directory Services
- mhash Hashing functions such as MD5, SHA1, etc
- mcrypt Interface to block and stream encryption algorithms
- mm Shared memory support for session storage
- recode GNU Recode support for character set conversion
- snmp Simple Network Management Protocol access functions
- gd Generate PNG or JPEG images on the fly
- pdflib Generate Adobe PDF documents dynamically
In addition, the following database flavors are supported:
gdbm, dbase, filepro, mysql, postgresql, and iodbc
If you wish to compile PHP without X, use the no_x11 flavor.
WWW: ${HOMEPAGE}