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PHP string functions are used to manipulate string data. The most common string functions include the following :-


addcslashes — >Quote string with slashes in a C style
addslashes — >Quote string with slashes
bin2hex — >Convert binary data into hexadecimal representation
chop — >Alias of rtrim
chr — >Return a specific character
chunk_split — >Split a string into smaller chunks
convert_cyr_string — >Convert from one Cyrillic character set to another
convert_uudecode — >Decode a uuencoded string
convert_uuencode — >Uuencode a string
count_chars — >Return information about characters used in a string
crc32 — >Calculates the crc32 polynomial of a string
crypt — >One-way string hashing
echo — >Output one or more strings
explode — >Split a string by string
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
lcfirst — >Make a string's first character lowercase
levenshtein — >Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings
localeconv — >Get numeric formatting information
ltrim — >Strip 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
print — >Output a string
printf — >Output a formatted string
quoted_printable_decode — >Convert a quoted-printable string to an 8 bit string
quoted_printable_encode — >Convert a 8 bit string to a quoted-printable 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_getcsv — >Parse a CSV string into an array
str_ireplace — >Case-insensitive version of str_replace.
str_pad — >Pad a string to a certain length with another string
str_repeat — >Repeat a 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-quotes a quoted string
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 — >Finds the length of the first segment of a string consisting entirely of characters contained within a given 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 comparison of two 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