String Functions

There are many string functions or methods supported for performing string operations on the data. Some methods require parameters.

1. HTML Special Chars Decode

htmlspecialchars_decode - Convert special HTML entities to characters. This function is the opposite of htmlspecialchars().

2. HTML Special Chars

htmlspecialchars - Convert special characters to HTML entities.

3. Trim, Left Trim, Right Trim

trim - Strip whitespace from the beginning and end of a string.

ltrim - Strip whitespace from the beginning (left side) of a string.

rtrim - Strip whitespace from the end (right side) of a string.

4. Lower Case, Upper Case, Sentence Case, Capitalize Case

strtolower - Make a string lower case.

strtoupper - Make a string upper case.

ucfirst - Make a string's first character upper case (sentence case).

ucwords - Upper case the first character of each word in a string (capitalize case).

5. Length, Word Count

strlen - Get the length of the string.

str_word_count - Get the number of words in a string.

6. Reverse

strrev - Reverse a string.

7. Strip Tags

strip_tags - Strip HTML and PHP tags from a string.

8. Shuffle

str_shuffle - Randomly shuffles a string.

9. Repeat

str_repeat - Repeat a string

Parameter 1: Number of time the string should be repeated. It has to be greater than or equal to 0. If it is set to 0, the function will return an empty string.

10. Replace, Preg Replace

str_replace - Replace all occurrences of the search string with the replacement string.

preg_replace - Perform a regular expression search and replace.