diff --git a/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-connect-with-url.xml b/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-connect-with-url.xml
index 31847ad41e..314596a4e3 100644
--- a/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-connect-with-url.xml
+++ b/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-connect-with-url.xml
@@ -22,16 +22,23 @@
    enabled in CUBRID, you must specify the connection information of the
    standby server, which is used for failover when failure occurs, in the url
    string argument of this function. If the user name and password is not
-   given, then the "PUBLIC" connection will be made by default.
+   given, then the "PUBLIC" connection will be made by default. If a second
+   call is made to <function>cubrid_connect</function> with the same
+   <parameter>conn_url</parameter>, and <parameter>userid</parameter> as an
+   existing connection, the existing connection will be returned unless you
+   pass.
   </para>
   <para>
-   &lt;url&gt; ::= cci:CUBRID:&lt;host&gt;:&lt;db_name&gt;:&lt;db_user&gt;:&lt;db_password&gt;:[?&lt;properties&gt;]
+   &lt;url&gt; ::= CUBRID:&lt;host&gt;:&lt;db_name&gt;:&lt;db_user&gt;:&lt;db_password&gt;:[?&lt;properties&gt;]
    &lt;properties&gt; ::= &lt;property&gt; [&amp;&lt;property&gt;]
    &lt;properties&gt; ::= autocommit=&lt;autocommit_mode&gt;
    &lt;alternative_hosts&gt; ::= &lt;standby_broker1_host&gt;:&lt;port&gt; [,&lt;standby_broker2_host&gt;:&lt;port&gt;]
    &lt;host&gt; := HOSTNAME | IP_ADDR
    &lt;time&gt; := SECOND
   </para>
+  <para>
+   or &lt;url&gt; ::= cci:CUBRID:&lt;host&gt;:&lt;db_name&gt;:......
+  </para>
   <para>
    <simplelist>
     <member>host : A host name or IP address of the master database</member>
@@ -82,7 +89,7 @@
    <programlisting role="php">
 <![CDATA[
 <?php
-$conn_url = "cci:CUBRID:127.0.0.1:33088:demodb:dba:123456:?autocommit=off"
+$conn_url = "CUBRID:127.0.0.1:33088:demodb:dba:123456:?autocommit=off"
 $con = cubrid_connect_with_url ($conn_url);
 
 if ($con) {
@@ -107,7 +114,7 @@ if ($con) {
    <programlisting role="php">
 <![CDATA[
 <?php
-$conn_url = "cci:CUBRID:127.0.0.1:33088:demodb:dba:123456:?autocommit=off&althost=10.34.63.132:33088&rctime=100"
+$conn_url = "CUBRID:127.0.0.1:33088:demodb:dba:123456:?autocommit=off&althost=10.34.63.132:33088&rctime=100"
 $con = cubrid_connect_with_url ($conn_url);
 
 if ($con) {
@@ -133,7 +140,10 @@ if ($con) {
   <para>
    <simplelist>
     <member><function>cubrid_connect</function></member>
+    <member><function>cubrid_pconnect</function></member>
+    <member><function>cubrid_pconnect_with_url</function></member>
     <member><function>cubrid_disconnect</function></member>
+    <member><function>cubrid_close</function></member>
    </simplelist>
   </para>
  </refsect1>
diff --git a/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-connect.xml b/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-connect.xml
index 81da9c5186..ef5c127610 100644
--- a/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-connect.xml
+++ b/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-connect.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@
     environment for connecting to your server by using your server address,
     port number, database name, user name, and password. If the user name and
     password is not given, then the "PUBLIC" connection will be made by
-    default.
+    default. If a second call is made to <function>cubrid_connect</function>
+    with the same <parameter>host</parameter>, <parameter>port</parameter>,
+    <parameter>dbname</parameter> and <parameter>userid</parameter> as an
+    existing connection, the existing connection will be returned unless you
+    pass.
   </para>
  </refsect1>
 
@@ -128,8 +132,11 @@ CUBRID Charset:                iso8859-1
   &reftitle.seealso;
   <para>
    <simplelist>
+   <member><function>cubrid_pconnect</function></member>
    <member><function>cubrid_connect_with_url</function></member>
+   <member><function>cubrid_pconnect_with_url</function></member>
    <member><function>cubrid_disconnect</function></member>
+   <member><function>cubrid_close</function></member>
    </simplelist>
   </para>
  </refsect1>
diff --git a/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-pconnect-with-url.xml b/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-pconnect-with-url.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..449cf0f985
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-pconnect-with-url.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 317855 $ -->
+
+<refentry xml:id="function.cubrid-pconnect-with-url" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+ <refnamediv>
+  <refname>cubrid_pconnect_with_url</refname>
+  <refpurpose>Open a persistent connection to CUBRID server</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="description">
+  &reftitle.description;
+  <methodsynopsis>
+   <type>resource</type><methodname>cubrid_pconnect_with_url</methodname>
+   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>conn_url</parameter></methodparam>  
+   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>userid</parameter></methodparam>  
+   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>passwd</parameter></methodparam>  
+  </methodsynopsis>
+  <para>
+   Establishes a persistent connection to a CUBRID server.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   <function>cubrid_pconnect_with_url()</function> acts very much like
+   <function>cubrid_connect_with_url</function> with two major differences. 
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   First, when connecting, the function would first try to find a (persistent)
+   link that's already open with the same host, port, dbname and userid. If
+   one is found, an identifier for it will be returned instead of opening a
+   new connection.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   Second, the connection to the SQL server will not be closed when the
+   execution of the script ends.  Instead, the link will remain open for
+   future use (<function>cubrid_close</function> or
+   <function>cubrid_disconnect</function> will not close links established by
+   <function>cubrid_pconnect_with_url</function>).
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   This type of link is therefore called 'persistent'.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   &lt;url&gt; ::= CUBRID:&lt;host&gt;:&lt;db_name&gt;:&lt;db_user&gt;:&lt;db_password&gt;:[?&lt;properties&gt;]
+   &lt;properties&gt; ::= &lt;property&gt; [&amp;&lt;property&gt;]
+   &lt;properties&gt; ::= autocommit=&lt;autocommit_mode&gt;
+   &lt;alternative_hosts&gt; ::= &lt;standby_broker1_host&gt;:&lt;port&gt; [,&lt;standby_broker2_host&gt;:&lt;port&gt;]
+   &lt;host&gt; := HOSTNAME | IP_ADDR
+   &lt;time&gt; := SECOND
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   or &lt;url&gt; ::= cci:CUBRID:&lt;host&gt;:&lt;db_name&gt;:......
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   <simplelist>
+    <member>host : A host name or IP address of the master database</member>
+    <member>db_name : A name of the database</member>
+    <member>db_user : A name of the database user</member>
+    <member>db_password : A database user password</member>
+    <member>autocommit : The database connection auto-commit mode</member>
+    <member>alhosts: Specifies the broker information of the standby server, which is used for failover when it is impossible to connect to the active server. You can specify multiple brokers for failover, and the connection to the brokers is attempted in the order listed in alhosts</member>
+    <member>rctime : An interval between the attempts to connect to the active broker in which failure occurred. After a failure occurs, the system connects to the broker specified by althosts (failover), terminates the transaction, and then attempts to connect to the active broker of the master database at every rctime. The default value is 600 seconds.</member>
+   </simplelist>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="parameters">
+  &reftitle.parameters;
+  <para>
+   <variablelist>
+    <varlistentry>
+     <term><parameter>conn_url</parameter></term>
+     <listitem><para>A character string that contains server connection information.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+    <varlistentry>
+     <term><parameter>userid</parameter></term>
+     <listitem><para>User name for the database.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+    <varlistentry>
+     <term><parameter>passwd</parameter></term>
+     <listitem><para>User password.</para></listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+   </variablelist>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
+  &reftitle.returnvalues;
+  <para>
+   Connection identifier, when process is successful. 
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   &false;, when process is unsuccessful.
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="examples">
+  &reftitle.examples;
+  <example>
+   <title><function>cubrid_connect_with_url</function> url without properties example</title>
+   <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+$conn_url = "CUBRID:127.0.0.1:33000:demodb:dba:123456:?autocommit=off"
+$con = cubrid_pconnect_with_url ($conn_url);
+
+if ($con) {
+   echo "connected successfully";
+   $req =cubrid_execute($con, "insert into person values(1,'James')");
+
+   if ($req) {
+      cubrid_close_request ($req);
+      cubrid_commit ($con);
+   } else {
+      cubrid_rollback ($con);
+   }
+   cubrid_disconnect ($con);
+}
+?>
+]]>
+   </programlisting>
+  </example>
+  
+  <example>
+   <title><function>cubrid_connect_with_url</function> url with properties example</title>
+   <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+$conn_url = "CUBRID:127.0.0.1:33000:demodb:dba:123456:?autocommit=off&althost=10.34.63.132:33088&rctime=100"
+$con = cubrid_connect_with_url ($conn_url);
+
+if ($con) {
+   echo "connected successfully";
+   $req =cubrid_execute($con, "insert into person values(1,'James')");
+
+   if ($req) {
+      cubrid_close_request ($req);
+      cubrid_commit ($con);
+   } else {
+      cubrid_rollback ($con);
+   }
+   cubrid_disconnect ($con);
+}
+?>
+]]>
+   </programlisting>
+  </example>
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="seealso">
+  &reftitle.seealso;
+  <para>
+   <simplelist>
+    <member><function>cubrid_connect</function></member>
+    <member><function>cubrid_pconnect</function></member>
+    <member><function>cubrid_pconnect_with_url</function></member>
+    <member><function>cubrid_disconnect</function></member>
+    <member><function>cubrid_close</function></member>
+   </simplelist>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+</refentry>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
+sgml-indent-data:t
+indent-tabs-mode:nil
+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"~/.phpdoc/manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->
diff --git a/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-pconnect.xml b/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-pconnect.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4eda49397f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reference/cubrid/functions/cubrid-pconnect.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 317827 $ -->
+
+<refentry xml:id="function.cubrid-pconnect" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+ <refnamediv>
+  <refname>cubrid_pconnect</refname>
+  <refpurpose>Open a persistent connection to a CUBRID server</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsect1 role="description">
+  &reftitle.description;
+  <methodsynopsis>
+   <type>resource</type><methodname>cubrid_pconnect</methodname>
+   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>host</parameter></methodparam>  
+   <methodparam><type>int</type><parameter>port</parameter></methodparam>  
+   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>dbname</parameter></methodparam>  
+   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>userid</parameter></methodparam>  
+   <methodparam choice="opt"><type>string</type><parameter>passwd</parameter></methodparam>  
+  </methodsynopsis>
+  <para>
+   Establishes a persistent connection to a CUBRID server.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   <function>cubrid_pconnect()</function> acts very much like
+   <function>cubrid_connect</function> with two major differences. 
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   First, when connecting, the function would first try to find a (persistent)
+   link that's already open with the same host, port, dbname and userid. If
+   one is found, an identifier for it will be returned instead of opening a
+   new connection.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   Second, the connection to the SQL server will not be closed when the
+   execution of the script ends.  Instead, the link will remain open for
+   future use (<function>cubrid_close</function> or
+   <function>cubrid_disconnect</function> will not close links established by
+   <function>cubrid_pconnect</function>).
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   This type of link is therefore called 'persistent'.
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1 role="parameters">
+ &reftitle.parameters;
+ <para>
+  <variablelist>
+   <varlistentry>
+    <term><parameter>host</parameter></term>
+    <listitem><para>Host name or IP address of CUBRID CAS server.</para></listitem>
+   </varlistentry>
+   <varlistentry>
+    <term><parameter>port</parameter></term>
+    <listitem><para>Port number of CUBRID CAS server (BROKER_PORT configured in $CUBRID/conf/cubrid_broker.conf).</para></listitem>
+   </varlistentry>
+   <varlistentry>
+    <term><parameter>dbname</parameter></term>
+    <listitem><para>Name of database.</para></listitem>
+   </varlistentry>
+   <varlistentry>
+    <term><parameter>userid</parameter></term>
+    <listitem><para>User name for the database.</para></listitem>
+   </varlistentry>
+   <varlistentry>
+    <term><parameter>passwd</parameter></term>
+    <listitem><para>User password.</para></listitem>
+   </varlistentry>
+  </variablelist>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
+  &reftitle.returnvalues;
+  <para>
+    Connection identifier, when process is successful. 
+  </para>
+    <para>
+    &false;, when process is unsuccessful.
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="examples">
+  &reftitle.examples;
+  <example>
+   <title><function>cubrid_connect</function> example</title>
+   <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+printf("%-30s %s\n", "CUBRID PHP Version:", cubrid_version());
+
+printf("\n");
+
+$conn = cubrid_pconnect("localhost", 33000, "demodb");
+
+if (!$conn) {
+    die('Connect Error ('. cubrid_error_code() .')' . cubrid_error_msg());
+}
+
+$db_params = cubrid_get_db_parameter($conn);
+
+while (list($param_name, $param_value) = each($db_params)) {
+    printf("%-30s %s\n", $param_name, $param_value);
+}
+
+printf("\n");
+
+$server_info = cubrid_get_server_info($conn);
+$client_info = cubrid_get_client_info();
+
+printf("%-30s %s\n", "Server Info:", $server_info);
+printf("%-30s %s\n", "Client Info:", $client_info);
+
+printf("\n");
+
+$charset = cubrid_get_charset($conn);
+
+printf("%-30s %s\n", "CUBRID Charset:", $charset);
+
+cubrid_disconnect($conn);
+?>
+]]>
+   </programlisting>
+    &example.outputs;
+    <screen>
+<![CDATA[
+CUBRID PHP Version:            8.4.1.0001
+
+PARAM_ISOLATION_LEVEL          3
+LOCK_TIMEOUT                   0 
+MAX_STRING_LENGTH              1073741823
+PARAM_AUTO_COMMIT              0
+
+Server Info:                   8.4.1.0508
+Client Info:                   8.4.1
+
+CUBRID Charset:                iso8859-1
+]]>
+   </screen>
+  </example>
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+   <refsect1 role="seealso">
+  &reftitle.seealso;
+  <para>
+   <simplelist>
+   <member><function>cubrid_pconnect</function></member>
+   <member><function>cubrid_connect_with_url</function></member>
+   <member><function>cubrid_pconnect_with_url</function></member>
+   <member><function>cubrid_disconnect</function></member>
+   <member><function>cubrid_close</function></member>
+   </simplelist>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
+sgml-indent-data:t
+indent-tabs-mode:nil
+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"~/.phpdoc/manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->