get_defined_functions

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

get_defined_functions — Returns an array of all defined functions

Description

get_defined_functions(bool $exclude_disabled = true): array

Gets an array of all defined functions.

Parameters

exclude_disabled: Whether disabled functions should be excluded from the return value.

Return Values

Returns a multidimensional array containing a list of all defined functions, both built-in (internal) and user-defined. The internal functions will be accessible via $arr["internal"], and the user defined ones using $arr["user"] (see example below).

Changelog

Version	Description
8.0.0	The default value of the `exclude_disabled` parameter has been changed from `false` to `true`.
7.0.15, 7.1.1	The `exclude_disabled` parameter has been added.

Examples

Example #1 get_defined_functions() example

<?php
function myrow($id, $data)
{
    return "<tr><th>$id</th><td>$data</td></tr>\n";
}

$arr = get_defined_functions();

print_r($arr);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Array
(
    [internal] => Array
        (
            [0] => zend_version
            [1] => func_num_args
            [2] => func_get_arg
            [3] => func_get_args
            [4] => strlen
            [5] => strcmp
            [6] => strncmp
            ...
            [750] => bcscale
            [751] => bccomp
        )

    [user] => Array
        (
            [0] => myrow
        )

)

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kkuczok at gmail dot com ¶

11 years ago

You can list all arguments using ReflectionFunction class. It's not necessary to parse selected files/files as suggested by Nguyet.Duc.

http://php.net/manual/pl/class.reflectionfunction.php

Example:
<?php
function foo(&$bar, $big, $small = 1) {}
function bar($foo) {}
function noparams() {}
function byrefandopt(&$the = 'one') {}

$functions = get_defined_functions();
$functions_list = array();
foreach ($functions['user'] as $func) {
        $f = new ReflectionFunction($func);
        $args = array();
        foreach ($f->getParameters() as $param) {
                $tmparg = '';
                if ($param->isPassedByReference()) $tmparg = '&';
                if ($param->isOptional()) {
                        $tmparg = '[' . $tmparg . '$' . $param->getName() . ' = ' . $param->getDefaultValue() . ']';
                } else {
                        $tmparg.= '&' . $param->getName();
                }
                $args[] = $tmparg;
                unset ($tmparg);
        }
        $functions_list[] = 'function ' . $func . ' ( ' . implode(', ', $args) . ' )' . PHP_EOL;
}
print_r($functions_list);
?>

Output:
Array
(
    [0] => function foo ( &&bar, &big, [$small = 1] )

    [1] => function bar ( &foo )

    [2] => function noparams (  )

    [3] => function byrefandopt ( [&$the = one] )

)

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mIHATESPAMduskis at bates dot edu ¶

21 years ago

At least with PHP 4.2.3 on a GNU/Linux/Apache platform, get_defined_functions() returns user-defined functions as all-lower case strings regardless of how the functions are capitalized when they are defined.

Threw me for a loop.

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peten at spam dot me dot not dot frontiernet dot net ¶

22 years ago

Here's a useful trick with the get_defined_functions function - show all available functions with a link to the documentation (you can even change the mirror it goes to):

<?php
  // the php mirror 
  $php_host = "http://us2.php.net/";

  // the number of cols in our table
  $num_cols = 3;

  $ar = get_defined_functions();
  $int_funct = $ar[internal];
  sort($int_funct);
  $count = count($int_funct);
?>
<html>
 <head>
  <title>
   Available PHP Functions
  </title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p>
   <?php print $count; ?> functions     
    available on 
    <?php 
      print $_SERVER[SERVER_NAME]; 
     ?>
   (<a href="<?php print $php_host;?>" 
    target="phpwin">php</a>
    version 
    <?php print phpversion(); ?>)
  </p>
  <table align="center" border="2">
   <tr>  
<?php
  for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++) {
    $doc = $php_host 
     . "manual/en/function."
     . strtr($int_funct[$i], "_", "-") 
     . ".php";
    print "    <td><a href=\"" . $doc 
     . "\" target=\"phpwin\">" 
     . $int_funct[$i] 
     . "</a></td>\n";
    if(($i > 1) 
     && (($i+$num_cols)%$num_cols==($num_cols-1)))   
      print "   </tr>\n   <tr>\n";
    }
  for($i=($num_cols-($count%$num_cols));$i>0;$i--)  
    print "    <td>&nbsp;</td>\n";
?>
  </table>
 </body>
</html>

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strrev xc.noxeh@ellij ¶

16 years ago

Please note that functions created with create_function() are not returned.
(However that might change in a later version)

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berchentreff at berchentreff dot de ¶

18 years ago

look at here, list all the defined function on your php-Version and give as well formatted output width links onto the php-manual:

<html><head>
<style type="text/css"><!--
li{font-family:Verdana,Arail,sans-serif;width:500px;margin-top:7px;}
a{padding:4px;}
a.a1{font-size:12px;background-color:#CCCCCC;color:#663300;}
a.a1:hover{background-color:#663300;color:#CCCCCC;}
a.a1:visited{background-color:#fff;color:#999;}
a.a1:visited:hover{background-color:#fff;color:#999;}
a.a0{font-size:12px;background-color:#CCCCFF;color:#663399;}
a.a0:hover{background-color:#663399;color:#CCCCFF;}
a.a0:visited{background-color:#ffC;color:#999;}
a.a0:visited:hover{background-color:#ffC;color:#999;}
--></style>
</head><body style="background-color:#999;">
<?php
$arr = get_defined_functions();

foreach($arr as $zeile){
sort($zeile);$s=0;
foreach($zeile as $bzeile){
$s=($s)?0:1;
echo "<li><a class='a".$s."'  href='http://de.php.net/".$bzeile."'>".$bzeile."</a></li>";}
}
?>
</body>
</html>

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spudinski at gmail dot com ¶

16 years ago

To search for a function.
<html>
<head>
<title>List of all Internal functions</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    color: #222222;
    font-size: 11px;
    font-family: arial, tahoma;
}
table {
    color: #222222;
    font-size: 11px;
    font-family: arial, tahoma;
}
tr.found {
    background-color: #66EE00;
    font-weight: bold;
}
a:link {
    color: #222222;
}
a:visited {
    color: #CCCCCC;
}
a:active {
    color: #444444;
}
a:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
    <form method="GET">
    Search: <input type="text" name="search"><br>
    <input type="submit">
    </form>
</p>
<?php
    if (!empty($_GET['search'])) {
        echo '<p>' . '<a href="#' . $_GET['search'] . '">' .
        'Goto ' . $_GET['search'] . '</a>' . 
        '<script type="text/javascript">
            window.onload = function() {
                document.location += "#' . $_GET['search'] . '";
                return true;
            }
        </script>
        </p>';
    }
?>
<p>
    <table>
<?php
    $country = 'us';
    $functions = get_defined_functions();
    $functions = $functions['internal'];
    $num = 0;
    foreach($functions as $function) {
        $num++;
        echo '<tr ' . (($_GET['search'] == $function) ? 'class="found"' : '') . '><td>' . 
        number_format($num) . '</td><td>' . '<a name="' . $function . '" href="http://' . $country . '.php.net/' . 
        $function . '">' . $function . '</a>' . '</td></tr>';
    }
?>
    </table>
</p>
</body>
</html>

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Muneeb Aslam ¶

9 years ago

This is rather a simple non-confusing script to get the function names linked to its manual page on php.net. Hope it helps someone. Commented script is self explainatory

<?php
    
    /*declare a variable to php manual of functions.
    change the $lng to the region you want it for,
    i-e en/es/de etc etc */
    $lng = "es";
    $url = "http://www.php.net/manual/".$lng."/function.";
    
    // get defined functions in a variable (it will be a 2D array)
    $functions = get_defined_functions();
    
    // Run nested foreach to get the function names
    foreach($functions as $function){
        foreach ($function as $functionName){
            
            /* Since php manual is using hyphens instead of underscores
            for functions, we will convert underscores to hyphen whereever
            there is one. */
            if(strpos($functionName,"_") !== false){
                $functionForURL = str_replace("_","-",$functionName);
            } else {
                $functionForURL = $functionName;
            }
            
            /* echo the link */
            echo "<a href='".$url.$functionForURL.".php'>".$functionName."</a><br />";
        }
    }
    
?>

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Muneeb Aslam ¶

9 years ago

We can also get the function names with this simple foreach

<?php
    
    //Since its a two dimensional array
    $functions = get_defined_functions();
     
    //We can use nested foreach to get the function names
    foreach($functions as $function){
         foreach($function as $thisFunc){
             echo $thisFunc . "<br />";
         }
     }
    
?>

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Nguyet.Duc ¶

13 years ago

get_defined_functions() just returns a list of function names without function arguments. Here is the code to list user-defined function names plus arguments:

<?php
    $content = file_get_contents('example.php');
    preg_match_all("/(function )(\S*\(\S*\))/", $content, $matches);
    foreach($matches[2] as $match) {
        $function[] = "// " . trim($match) . "<br />\n";
    }
    natcasesort($function);
    $functionlist .= "/* Functions in this file */<br />\n";
    $functionlist .= "/**************************/<br />\n\n";
    $functionlist .= implode('', $function);
    echo $functionlist;
?>

Output:

/* Functions in this file */
/**************************/
// add_data($data)
// add_files($list)
// archive($name)
// bzip_file($name)

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rob at webdimension dot co dot uk ¶

13 years ago

A quick way of using this function:



<?php

// ALL USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS

$arr = get_defined_functions();

foreach ($arr['user'] as $key => $value){

echo $value.'<br />';

}

// ALL USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS



// ALL INTERNAL FUNCTIONS

$arr = get_defined_functions();

foreach ($arr['internal'] as $key => $value){

echo $value.'<br />';

}

// ALL INTERNAL FUNCTIONS

?>

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ChaosKaizer ¶

16 years ago

for user defined function

<?php
/**
 * @param string $function_name The user function name, as a string.
 * @return Returns TRUE if function_name  exists and is a function, FALSE otherwise.
 */
function user_func_exists($function_name = 'do_action') {
   
    $func = get_defined_functions();
   
    $user_func = array_flip($func['user']);
   
    unset($func);
   
    return ( isset($user_func[$function_name]) );   
}
?>

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get_defined_functions

Description

Parameters

Return Values

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