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