PHP Extensions

apcu In-memory object caching new bcmath Precise maths for money and large numbers new bz2 Bzip2 archives new calendar Calendar and date conversion functions On ctype On curl Fetching URLs and calling APIs new dba Database (dbm-style) abstraction layer new enchant Spell-checking via the Enchant library new exif Read metadata (EXIF) from images On ffi On fileinfo File type detection (PHP core) On ftp FTP client functions On gd Image resizing and thumbnails new gettext Native language translation (gettext) On gmp Very large number maths new iconv Character-set conversion On igbinary Faster, smaller data storage for Redis and Memcached new imagick Advanced image processing new imap Reading mail over IMAP new intl Locales, currency and date formatting new ioncube IonCube Loader (server-level, required for WHMCS) required ldap Directory authentication new mbstring Multi-byte text — required for non-English content new memcached Memcached caching new mongodb MongoDB database access new mysqli MySQL / MariaDB database access — needed by WordPress and most apps new mysqlnd MySQL native driver (PHP core) new odbc ODBC database connectivity new opcache Compiles PHP once and reuses it — big speed win On pdo PDO database layer (PHP core) On pdo_mysql MySQL access through PDO, used by Laravel and modern frameworks new pgsql PostgreSQL database access new phar On pspell Spell checking via pspell/aspell new readline On redis Redis caching and sessions new shmop On soap SOAP web services new sockets On sodium Modern encryption — needed by Magento, Moodle and Nextcloud On sqlite3 SQLite databases new sysvmsg On sysvsem On sysvshm On tidy Cleaning up HTML new tokenizer On xml Reading and writing XML new xsl XSLT transformations new yaml YAML config files, used by Symfony new zip Creating and reading ZIP archives new