LII. String functions
These functions all manipulate strings in various ways. Some more
specialized sections can be found in the regular expression and
URL handling sections.
- Table of Contents
- AddCSlashes — Quote string with slashes in a C style
- AddSlashes — Quote string with slashes
- bin2hex — Convert binary data into hexadecimal representation
- Chop — remove trailing whitespace
- Chr — Return a specific character
- chunk_split — Split a string into smaller chunks
- convert_cyr_string — Convert from one Cyrillic character set to another
- crypt — DES-encrypt a string
- echo — Output one or more strings
- explode — Split a string by string
- flush — Flush the output buffer
- get_html_translation_table — Returns the translation table used by
htmlspecialchars() and
htmlentities()
- get_meta_tags — Extracts all meta tag content attributes from a file and returns
an array
- htmlentities — Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities
- htmlspecialchars — Convert special characters to HTML entities
- implode — Join array elements with a string
- join — Join array elements with a string
- ltrim — Strip whitespace from the beginning of a string
- md5 — Calculate the md5 hash of a string
- Metaphone — Calculate the metaphone key of a string
- nl2br — Converts newlines to HTML line breaks.
- Ord — Return ASCII value of character
- parse_str — Parses the string into variables
- print — Output a string
- printf — output a formatted string
- quoted_printable_decode — Convert a quoted-printable string to an 8 bit string
- QuoteMeta — quote meta characters
- rawurldecode — Decode URL-encoded strings
- rawurlencode — URL-encode according to RFC1738
- setlocale — Set locale information
- similar_text — Calculate the similarity between two strings
- soundex — Calculate the soundex key of a string
- sprintf — Return a formatted string
- strcasecmp — Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison
- strchr — Find the first occurrence of a character.
- strcmp — Binary safe string comparison
- strcspn — Find length of initial segment not matching mask
- strip_tags — Strip HTML and PHP tags from a string
- StripCSlashes — un-quote string quoted with addcslashes
- StripSlashes — Un-quote string quoted with addslashes
- stristr — Case-insensitive strstr()
- strlen — Get string length
- strpos — Find position of first occurrence of a string
- strrchr — Find the last occurrence of a character in a string
- str_repeat — Repeat a string
- strrev — Reverse a string
- strrpos — Find position of last occurrence of a char in a string
- strspn — Find length of initial segment matching mask
- strstr — Find first occurrence of a string.
- strtok — Tokenize string
- strtolower — Make a string lowercase
- strtoupper — Make a string uppercase
- str_replace — Replace all occurrences of needle in haystack with str
- strtr — Translate certain characters
- substr — Return part of a string
- substr_replace — Replace text within a portion of a string.
- trim — Strip whitespace from the beginning and end of a string
- ucfirst — Make a string's first character uppercase
- ucwords — Uppercase the first character of each word in a string