Introduction

This specification is intended to provide a complete and concise definition of the syntax and semantics of the PHP language, suitable for use by the following:

• Implementers of a PHP compiler.
• Implementers of a test suite for the PHP language.
• Programmers writing PHP code.

For now, the runtime library has been excluded, as that is documented at www.php.net. However, the document can contain references to the library functions, usually in the form of links to http://www.php.net.