JString/1.5

Defined in

libraries/joomla/utilities/string.php

Subpackage

Utilities

Methods

Method name	Description
strlen	UTF-8 aware alternative to strlen Returns the number of characters in the string (NOT THE NUMBER OF BYTES),.
strtolower	UTF-8 aware alternative to strtlower Make a string lowercase Note: The concept of a characters "case" only exists is some alphabets such as Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and archaic Georgian - it does not exist in the Chinese alphabet, for example.
strtoupper	UTF-8 aware alternative to strtoupper Make a string uppercase Note: The concept of a characters "case" only exists is some alphabets such as Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and archaic Georgian - it does not exist in the Chinese alphabet, for example.
ltrim	UTF-8 aware replacement for Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string Note: you only need to use this if you are supplying the charlist optional arg and it contains UTF-8 characters.
rtrim	UTF-8 aware replacement for Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the end of a string Note: you only need to use this if you are supplying the charlist optional arg and it contains UTF-8 characters.
str_ireplace	UTF-8 aware alternative to str_ireplace Case-insensitive version of str_replace.
str_split	UTF-8 aware alternative to str_split Convert a string to an array.
strcasecmp	UTF-8 aware alternative to strcasecmp A case insensivite string comparison.
strcspn	UTF-8 aware alternative to strcspn Find length of initial segment not matching mask.
stristr	UTF-8 aware alternative to stristr Returns all of haystack from the first occurrence of needle to the end.
strpos	UTF-8 aware alternative to strpos Find position of first occurrence of a string.
strrev	UTF-8 aware alternative to strrev Reverse a string.
strrpos	UTF-8 aware alternative to strrpos Finds position of last occurrence of a string.
strspn	UTF-8 aware alternative to strspn Find length of initial segment matching mask.
substr	UTF-8 aware alternative to substr Return part of a string given character offset (and optionally length).
substr_replace	UTF-8 aware substr_replace Replace text within a portion of a string.
transcode	Transcode a string.
trim	UTF-8 aware replacement for Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of a string Note: you only need to use this if you are supplying the charlist optional arg and it contains UTF-8 characters.
ucfirst	UTF-8 aware alternative to ucfirst Make a string's first character uppercase.
ucwords	UTF-8 aware alternative to ucwords Uppercase the first character of each word in a string.

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.utilities.string' );

See also

• Other versions of this class
• JString on api.joomla.org

Examples

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