PHP String Functions are a set of built-in functions in the PHP programming language that allow developers to manipulate and modify strings in various ways. These functions enable developers to perform operations such as searching, replacing, formatting, and modifying strings.
PHP provides various string functions to access and manipulate strings. Here Some of the commonly used PHP String Functions are
- strlen(): Returns the length of a string.
- substr(): Returns a part of a string.
- str_replace(): Replaces a substring with another substring in a string.
- strpos(): Returns the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string.
- strtoupper(): Converts a string to uppercase.
- strtolower(): Converts a string to lowercase.
- addcslashes(): It is used to return a string with backslashes.
- addslashes(): It is used to return a string with backslashes.
- bin2hex(): It is used to converts a string of ASCII characters to hexadecimal values.
- chop() It removes whitespace or other characters from the right end of a string
- chr(): It is used to return a character from a specified ASCII value.
- trim(): Removes whitespace or other characters from the beginning and end of a string.
- explode(): Splits a string into an array based on a specified delimiter.
- substr_compare(): Compares two strings from an offset up to the length of characters. (Binary safe comparison)
- substr_count(): Count the number of times occurrence of a substring
- trim(): Remove whitespace or other characters from the beginning and end of the string.