NIS (formerly called Yellow Pages) allows network management of important administrative files (e.g. the password file). For more information refer to the NIS manpage and The Linux NIS(YP)/NYS/NIS+ HOWTO. There is also a book called Managing NFS and NIS by Hal Stern.
Notã: This extension is not available on Windows platforms.
None besides functions from standard Unix libraries which are always available (either libc or libnsl, configure will detect which one to use).
To get these functions to work, you have to configure PHP with --enable-yp.
Această extensie nu definește directive de configurare.
Aceste constante sunt definite de această extensie și vor fi disponibile doar cînd extensia a fost fie compilată odată la instalarea PHP fie dacă extensia este încărcată dinamic la rulare.