Advanced PHP Strings: Text analysis, generation, and parsing via. Laravel

By Johnathon Koster

Working with multibyte strings, Unicode, and UTF-8 can feel intimidating when writing PHP. Advanced PHP Strings: Text analysis, generation, and parsing via. Laravel offers a guided experience navigating the different techniques to properly work with and manage multibyte strings. The book also offers extensive discussions around the Laravel string helper methods to provide a familiar reference point while navigating the intricacies of string and text manipulation. Through hundreds of hand-crafted examples and in-depth discussions, you will learn how to: * Read and write multibyte strings using PHP * Safely loop through the characters of a multibyte string * Work with over sixty Laravel string helper methods and fluent strings * Manage documents with a variety of different line-ending styles * Convert string positions to line and column numbers (and back) Large, hands-on example projects include: * Writing a Gherkin language parser from the ground up * Planning and developing a system to validate Laravel Blade directives * Parsing HTML documents with embedded templating languages

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1387548190
• ISBN13: 9781387548194
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 764 Pages
• Weight: 2.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"