New Methods

Several new methods were introduced in 5.4.0:

XSL:

• XsltProcessor::setSecurityPrefs()
• XsltProcessor::getSecurityPrefs()

SPL:

• RegexIterator::getRegex()
• SplObjectStorage::getHash()
• DirectoryIterator::getExtension()
• SplDoublyLinkedList::serialize()
• SplDoublyLinkedList::unserialize()
• SplFileInfo::getExtension()
• SplFileObject::fputcsv()
• SplQueue::serialize()
• SplQueue::unserialize()
• SplStack::serialize()
• SplStack::unserialize()
• SplTempFileObject::fputcsv()

Reflection:

• ReflectionExtension::isPersistent()
• ReflectionExtension::isTemporary()
• ReflectionClass::isCloneable()

Closure:

• Closure::bind()
• Closure::bindTo()

PDO_dblib:

• PDO::newRowset()

StreamWrapper:

• StreamWrapper::stream_metadata()
• StreamWrapper::stream_truncate()

New Methods

Several new methods were introduced in 5.3.0:

Date/Time:

• DateTime::add() - Adds an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds to a DateTime object.
• DateTime::createFromFormat() - Returns a new DateTime object formatted according to the given format.
• DateTime::diff() - Returns the difference between two DateTime objects.
• DateTime::getLastErrors() - Returns the warnings and errors from the last date/time operation.
• DateTime::sub() - Subtracts an amount of days, months, years, hours, minutes and seconds from a DateTime object.

Exception:

• Exception::getPrevious() - Retrieves the previous exception.

DOM:

• DOMNode::getLineNo() - Get the line number of a parsed node.

PDO_FIREBIRD:

• PDO::setAttribute() - Sets an attribute.

Reflection:

• ReflectionClass::getNamespaceName() - Returns the name of namespace where this class is defined.
• ReflectionClass::getShortName() - Returns the short name of this class (without namespace part).
• ReflectionClass::inNamespace() - Returns whether this class is defined in a namespace.
• ReflectionFunction::getNamespaceName() - Returns the name of namespace where this function is defined.
• ReflectionFunction::getShortName() - Returns the short name of the function (without namespace part).
• ReflectionFunction::inNamespace() - Returns whether this function is defined in a namespace.
• ReflectionProperty::setAccessible() - Sets whether non-public properties can be requested.

SPL:

• SplObjectStorage::addAll() - Add all elements from another SplObjectStorage object.
• SplObjectStorage::removeAll() - Remove all elements from another SplObjectStorage object.

XSL:

• XSLTProcessor::setProfiling() - Sets the profiling output file.

New Methods

New methods were introduced in 5.2.0:

dom:

• DOMDocument::registerNodeClass() - Register extended class used to create base node type
• DOMElement::setIDAttribute() - Declares the attribute specified by name to be of type ID
• DOMElement::setIDAttributeNode() - Declares the attribute specified by node to be of type ID
• DOMElement::setIDAttributeNS() - Declares the attribute specified by local name and namespace URI to be of type ID
• DOMNode::C14N()([bool exclusive [, bool with_comments [, array xpath [, array ns_prefixes]]]]) - Canonicalize nodes to a string
• DOMNode::C14NFile()(string uri [, bool exclusive [, bool with_comments [, array xpath [, array ns_prefixes]]]]) - Canonicalize nodes to a file
• DOMNode::getNodePath()() - Gets an xpath for a node

soap:

• SoapServer::setObject()(object obj) - Sets object which will handle SOAP requests

spl:

• int ArrayObject::asort()(void) - Sort the entries by values
• int ArrayObject::ksort()(void) - Sort the entries by key
• int ArrayObject::natcasesort()(void) - Sort the entries by key using case insensitive "natural order" algorithm.
• int ArrayObject::natsort()(void) - Sort the entries by values using "natural order" algorithm.
• int ArrayObject::uasort()(callback cmp_function) - Sort the entries by values using a user defined function
• int ArrayObject::uksort()(callback cmp_function) - Sort the entries by key using a user defined function.
• ArrayIterator AppendIterator::getArrayIterator()() - Get access to inner ArrayIterator
• int AppendIterator::getIteratorIndex()() - Get index of iterator
• bool CachingIterator::getCache()() - Return the cache
• int CachingIterator::getFlags()() - Return the internal flags
• bool CachingIterator::offsetExists()(mixed index) - Returns TRUE if the requested index exists
• string CachingIterator::offsetGet()(mixed index) - Return the internal cache if used
• void CachingIterator::offsetSet()(mixed index, mixed newval) - Set given index in cache
• void CachingIterator::offsetUnset()(mixed index) - Unset given index in cache
• void CachingIterator::setFlags()() - Set the internal flags
• array("delimiter" =>, "enclosure" =>) SplFileObject::getCsvControl()(void) - Get the delimiter and enclosure character used in fgetcsv()
• void SplFileObject::setCsvControl()([string delimiter = ',' [, string enclosure = '"']]) - Set the delimiter and enclosure character used in fgetcsv()

Tidy

• tidyNode tidyNode::getParent()() - Returns the parent node of the current node (Added in PHP 5.2.2)

XMLReader

• boolean XMLReader::setSchema() - Use W3C XSD schema to validate the document as it is processed. Activation is only possible before the first XMLReader::read()

zip:

• ZipArchive::addEmptyDir()() - Creates an empty directory in the archive