Programmers build applications based on established rules regarding the classification, parsing, storage, and display of information, whether that information consists of gourmet recipes, store sales receipts, poetry, or anything else. This chapter introduces many of the PHP functions that you’ll undoubtedly use on a regular basis when performing such tasks.
This chapter covers the following topics:
Regular expressions: PHP supports the use of regular expressions to search strings for patterns or replace elements of a string with another value based on patterns. There ...
