Advanced PHP Strings: Text analysis, generation, and parsing via. Laravel

English | 2022 | 749 Pages | PDF, EPUB | 10 MB

As a PHP developer, working with Unicode, UTF-8, and multibyte strings can feel intimidating. Advanced PHP String provides an approachable guide through reading, writing, looping, and parsing multibyte strings through hundreds of hands-on examples using the Laravel helper methods as a familiar foundation.

Working with multibyte strings, Unicode, and UTF-8 can feel intimidating when writing PHP. Advanced PHP Strings: Text analysis, generation, and parsing via. Laravel offers a guided experience navigating the different techniques to properly work with and manage multibyte strings. The book also offers extensive discussions around the Laravel string helper methods to provide a familiar reference point while navigating the intricacies of string and text manipulation.

Through hundreds of hand-crafted examples and in-depth discussions, you will learn how to:

• Read and write multibyte strings using PHP
• Safely loop through the characters of a multibyte string
• Work with over sixty Laravel string helper methods and fluent strings
• Manage documents with a variety of different line-ending styles
• Convert string positions to line and column numbers (and back)
• And so much more