June 2016
Beginner
528 pages
17h 21m
English
Content preview from PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition
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5. Using Strings
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As introduced in Chapter 2, “Variables,” a second category of variables used by PHP is strings—a collection of characters enclosed within either single or double quotation marks. The value of a string variable may be a single letter, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, HTML code, or even a jumble of nonsensical letters, numbers, and symbols (which might represent a password). Strings may be the most common variable type used in PHP.
This chapter covers PHP’s most basic built-in functions and operators for manipulating string data, regardless of ...
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