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In PHP, a string is a sequence of characters enclosed in quotes, either single quotes (”) or double quotes (“”). PHP strings can contain alphanumeric characters, special characters, and escape sequences. Here are some examples of PHP strings:

bash
$string1 = "Hello, world!";
$string2 = 'My favorite color is blue.';
$string3 = "It's a beautiful day.";
$string4 = 'I said, "Hello."';

In PHP, strings can be concatenated using the dot (.) operator. Here is an example:

bash
$name = "John";
$greeting = "Hello, " . $name;
echo $greeting; // outputs "Hello, John"

PHP also provides many built-in functions for working with strings. Here are some commonly used string functions:

  • strlen(): returns the length of a string.
  • strpos(): searches for a substring in a string and returns its position.
  • substr(): extracts a substring from a string.
  • str_replace(): replaces a substring in a string with another substring.
  • strtolower(): converts a string to lowercase.
  • strtoupper(): converts a string to uppercase.
  • trim(): removes whitespace and other characters from the beginning and end of a string.
  • explode(): splits a string into an array based on a delimiter.

Here are some examples of how to use these string functions:

php
$string = "Hello, world!";
echo strlen($string); // outputs 13

$string = "Hello, world!";
echo strpos($string, "world"); // outputs 7

$string = "Hello, world!";
echo substr($string, 7); // outputs "world!"

$string = "Hello, world!";
echo str_replace("world", "John", $string); // outputs "Hello, John!"

$string = "Hello, world!";
echo strtolower($string); // outputs "hello, world!"

$string = "Hello, world!";
echo strtoupper($string); // outputs "HELLO, WORLD!"

$string = "   Hello, world!   ";
echo trim($string); // outputs "Hello, world!"

$string = "Hello, world!";
$array = explode(", ", $string);
print_r($array); // outputs Array ( [0] => Hello [1] => world! )

These are just a few examples of how you can work with strings in PHP. PHP provides many more functions for working with strings, so be sure to check the official PHP documentation for more information.

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