It has lots of powerful functions which speed up the php development and also the performance. While developing a flexible and good web application we always need list of string handling functions.There are lots of php functions and I am giving you a list of all string functions in php. Which will help you for string manipulation.
List of php string functions
| addcslashes | Quote string with slashes in a C style. “Magicquotes” | ||
| Syntax : string addcslashes ( string $str , string $charlist ) | |||
| bin2hex | Convert binary data into hexadecimal representation. | ||
| string bin2hex ( string $str ) | |||
| chop | Alias of rtrim(). Remove white spaces from right isde of string. | ||
| chr | Return a specific character | ||
| chunk_split | Split a string into smaller chunks | ||
| string chunk_split ( string $body [, int $chunklen [, string $end ]] ) | |||
| convert_cyr_string | Convert from one Cyrillic character set to another | ||
| string convert_cyr_string ( string $str , string $from , string $to ) | |||
| convert_uudecode | Decode a uuencoded string | ||
| string convert_uudecode ( string $data ) | |||
| convert_uuencode | Uuencode a string | ||
| string convert_uuencode ( string $data ) | |||
| count_chars | Return information about characters used in a string | ||
| count_chars ( string $string [, int $mode ] ) | |||
| crc32 | Calculates the crc32 polynomial of a string | ||
| int crc32 ( string $str ) | |||
| crypt | One-way string encryption (hashing) | ||
| echo | Output one or more strings | ||
| explode | Split a string by string.
Syntax:explode(‘-’,’php-freelancer’); Return: array. |
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| fprintf | Write a formatted string to a stream | ||
| get_html_translation_table | Returns the translation table used by htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() | ||
| hebrev | Convert logical Hebrew text to visual text | ||
| hebrevc | Convert logical Hebrew text to visual text with newline conversion | ||
| html_entity_decode | Convert all HTML entities to their applicable characters | ||
| htmlentities | Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities | ||
| htmlspecialchars_decode | Convert special HTML entities back to characters | ||
| htmlspecialchars | Convert special characters to HTML entities | ||
| implode | Join array elements with a string | ||
| join | Alias of implode() | ||
| levenshtein | Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings | ||
| localeconv | Get numeric formatting information | ||
| ltrim | Strip/remove whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string | ||
| md5_file | Calculates the md5 hash of a given file | ||
| md5 | Calculate the md5 hash of a string | ||
| metaphone | Calculate the metaphone key of a string | ||
| money_format | Formats a number as a currency string | ||
| nl_langinfo | Query language and locale information | ||
| nl2br | Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string | ||
| number_format | Format a number with grouped thousands | ||
| ord | Return ASCII value of character | ||
| parse_str | Parses the string into variables | ||
| 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 | ||
| rtrim | Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the end of a string | ||
| setlocale | Set locale information | ||
| sha1_file | Calculate the sha1 hash of a file | ||
| sha1 | Calculate the sha1 hash of a string | ||
| similar_text | Calculate the similarity between two strings | ||
| soundex | Calculate the soundex key of a string | ||
| sprintf | Return a formatted string | ||
| sscanf | Parses input from a string according to a format | ||
| str_ireplace | Case-insensitive version of str_replace(). | ||
| str_pad | Pad a string to a certain length with another string | ||
| str_replace | Replace all occurrences of the search string with the replacement string | ||
| str_rot13 | Perform the rot13 transform on a string | ||
| str_shuffle | Randomly shuffles a string | ||
| str_split | Convert a string to an array | ||
| str_word_count | Return information about words used in a string | ||
| strcasecmp | Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison | ||
| strchr | Alias of strstr() | ||
| strcmp | Binary safe string comparison | ||
| strcoll | Locale based 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() | ||
| stripos | Find position of first occurrence of a case-insensitive string | ||
| stripslashes | Un-quote string quoted with addslashes() | ||
| stristr | Case-insensitive strstr() | ||
| strlen | Get string length | ||
| strnatcasecmp | Case insensitive string comparisons using a “natural order” algorithm | ||
| strnatcmp | String comparisons using a “natural order” algorithm | ||
| strncasecmp | Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison of the first n characters | ||
| strncmp | Binary safe string comparison of the first n characters | ||
| strpbrk | Search a string for any of a set of characters | ||
| strpos | Find position of first occurrence of a string | ||
| strrchr | Find the last occurrence of a character in a string | ||
| strrev | Reverse a string | ||
| strripos | Find position of last occurrence of a case-insensitive string in 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 | ||
| strtr | Translate certain characters | ||
| substr_compare | Binary safe optionally case insensitive comparison of 2 strings from an offset, up to length characters | ||
| substr_count | Count the number of substring occurrences | ||
| substr_replace | Replace text within a portion of a string | ||
| substr | Return part of a string | ||
| trim | Strip whitespace (or other characters) 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 | ||
| vfprintf | Write a formatted string to a stream | ||
| vprintf | Output a formatted string | ||
| vsprintf | Return a formatted string | ||
| wordwrap | Wraps a string to a given number of characters using a string break character | ||
