English | 2022 | ISBN: NA | 749 Pages | PDF, EPUB + Extras | 6 MB

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