PHP String Functions
In this tutorial, you will learn about PHP string functions used for string manipulation.
PHP offers many built-in functions for string manipulation.
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
| addcslashes() | Returns a string with backslashes before the specified characters in a given string. |
| addslashes() | Returns a string with predefined characters preceded by a backslash. |
| bin2hex() | Converts a string of ASCII characters to a hexadecimal value. |
| chop() | Removes spaces or other predefined characters from the right end of a string. |
| chr() | Returns a character from the specified ASCII value. |
| chunk_split() | Splits a string into smaller sections and inserts a specific delimiter between each section. |
| convert_uudecode() | Is used to decodes a uuencoded string. |
| convert_uudecode() | Is used to uuencode a string. |
| count_chars() | Returns information about the occurrences of characters in a string. |
| crc32() | Is used to calculate a 32-bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC) checksum of a string. |
| crypt() | Is used for one-way hashing of strings. Often used to store passwords securely. |
| echo() | Use the echo function to output data. |
| explode() | Split a string into an array of substrings based on a specified separator. |
| fprintf() | It writes a formatted string to the specified output stream. |
| get_html_translation_table() | Is used to return the conversion table used by htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities(). |
| hex2bin() | It converts a string of hexadecimal values to ASCII characters. |
| html_entity_decode() | It converts HTML entities to characters. |
| htmlentities() | It converts characters to HTML entities. |
| htmlspecialchars_decode() | It converts several predefined HTML entities to characters. |
| htmlspecialchars() | It converts some predefined characters into HTML entities. |
| implode() | Is used to returns a string consisting of the elements of the array. |
| join() | Is used to returns a string consisting of the elements of the array. |
| lcfirst() | Is used to converts the first character of a string to lowercase. |
| levenshtein() | Is used to returns the Levenshtein distance between two strings. |
| ltrim() | Is used to remove whitespaces from the beginning of a string |