String Handling Functions

Jan 092012
 
String Handling Functions

| By: James Appleyard | Posted: December 26, 2011 | PHP Tutorials phpmaster.com :: PHP has a vast selection of built-in string handling functions that allow you to easily manipulate strings in almost any possible way. However, learning all these functions, remembering what they do, and when they might come in handy can be a bit daunting, especially for new developers. There is no way I can cover every string function in one article, and besides, that is what the PHP manual is for! But [read more]

Introduction to PHP Arrays

Oct 182011
 
Introduction to PHP Arrays

By: J Armando Jeronymo | Posted: September 19, 2011 PHPmaster.com :: Many things that make the world as we know it possible are so commonplace that we forget they even exist. One of my favorite examples is the elevator; the idea of a lifting platform or box is very old but it had to wait for the Industrial Revolution to become a practical device. When Mr. Otis installed his first successful elevator in the brand-new E. V. Haughwout Building in 1857, he opened the path [read more]

Array Handling Functions

Oct 182011
 
Array Handling Functions

By: J Armando Jeronymo | Posted: October 10, 2011 PHPmaster.com :: In my previous article on PHP arrays I suggested a number of things that are tables and therefore can also be expressed as arrays. In this article I’ll use a pack of playing cards to explore some of the built-in array functions most often needed by PHP programmers. To highlight some of the array-handling functions PHP offers, I’ll be using some components of Buraco – a game very popular in my part of the [read more]

Regular Expressions

Oct 132011
 
Regular Expressions

By: Jason Pasnikowski | Posted: September 26, 2011 phpmaster.com ::   ^[A-Za-z0-9-_.+%]+@[A-Za-z0-9-.]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$ It makes all the sense of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to you, although those little pictures at least look like they have meaning. But this… this looks like gibberish. What does it mean? It means oleomarg32@hotmail.com, Fiery.Rebel@veneuser.info, robustlamp+selfmag@gmail.ca, or nearly any other simple email address because this is a pattern written in a language that describes how to match text in strings. When you’re looking to go beyond straight text matches, like finding “stud” [read more]

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