L. 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.
- count_chars —
Return information abouts characters used in a string.
- 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