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How to parse url using php
How to parse url using php In certain cases, even in my recent made cpanel plugin, I had to parse the url for me to clear their resource cache. The use cases for this are a lot, there are a lot of manipulation reasons for this as well as solutions. Scenario I’ll take the same
How to explode a string on upper case characters
How to explode a string on upper case characters Problem You have a string with the following value “thisStringMustBeSplittedAfterUpperCase” and you want to obtain every word separately in an array, splitted after upper case. Solution
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$chunks = preg_split('/(?=[A-Z])/', $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY); |
Output The output of the $chunks array obtained with a var_dump($chunks) will be:
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array (size=8) 0 => string 'this' (length=4) 1 => string 'String' (length=6) 2 => string 'Must' (length=4) 3 => string 'Be' (length=2) 4 => string 'Splitted' (length=8) 5 => string 'After' (length=5) 6 => string 'Upper' (length=5) 7 => string 'Case' (length=4) |
Solution in a function
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function upperCaseSplit($string){ return preg_split('/(?=[A-Z])/', $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY); } $string = 'thisStringMustBeSplittedAfterUpperCase'; var_dump (upperCaseSplit($string) ); |
How to strip all spaces out of a string in php
How to strip all spaces out of a string in php You have a string stored in a PHP variable, and you want to eliminate all whitespaces or spaces from that string with PHP, not only from the beginning or the end of the string. Scenario
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<?php //You want to strip all spaces from the below string and obtain "thisisjustastring" $firstString= 'this is just a string'; ?> |
Solution for spaces
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<?php $firstString= 'this is just a string'; $newString = str_replace(' ', '', $firstString); echo $newString; //outputs "thisisjustastring" as a string ?> |
Solution for whitespaces
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<?php $firstString= 'this is just a string'; $newString = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $firstString); echo $newString //outputs "thisisjustastring" as a string ?> |
