Aside from the new extensions and object related changes, a fair number of new functions were added as part of the standard functions extension. %file_put_contents()% - Quickly write or append to a file. %http_build_query()% - Generate URL-encoded query string. %convert_uudecode()% - Decode a uuencoded string. %convert_uuencode()% - Uuencode a string. %str_ireplace()% - Case insensitive equivalent of str_replace() .