Chapter 13. Working with Strings
The World Wide Web is very much a plain text environment. No matter how rich Web content becomes, HTML lies behind it all. It is no accident, then, that PHP provides many functions with which you can format, investigate, and manipulate strings. As you might expect, MySQL also comes with its own set of string-related functions, which you will also learn about in this hour.
In this hour, you will learn
How to format strings
How to determine the length of a string
How to find a substring within a string
How to break a string down into component parts
How to remove whitespace from the beginning or end of a string
How to replace substrings
How to change the case of a string
How to use MySQL to put strings together or extract ...
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