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Parse String

Parses the string into variables.

  code
//$str = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$str = "a=1&c[]=3&c[]=4";
parse_str($str, $output);
print_r($output); // [ a=> 1, c=>[3, 4] ]

Parse Url

Parse a URL and return its components.

  code
$parts = parse_url("http://doc.com/test.php?a=1&b=c");
print_r($parts);
/*
    Array (
        [scheme] => http
        [host] => doc.com
        [path] => /test.php
        [query] => a=1&b=c
    )
 */

Strtok

Splits a string (str) into smaller strings, tokens. Note that only the first call to strtok uses the string argument.

  code
$str = "java.lang.Object";

echo $tok_1 = strtok("java.lang.Object", "."); // java
echo $tok_2 = strtok("."); // lang

Get the last part of a string after a given character.

  code
$str = "java.lang.Object";
$rev = strrev("java.lang.Object"); // tcejbO.gnal.avaj

$lastToken = strtok($rev, "."); // tcejbO
$lastToken = strrev($lastToken);

echo $lastToken; // Object

Get username from an email address.

  code
$username = strtok("john.wayne@movies.com", "@");
echo $username; // john.wayne

Strstr returns what is after searched character.

  code
$username = strstr("john.wayne@movies.com", "@");
echo $username; // @movies.com

Whitelist

Match a string against a "whitelist" mask of allowed characters. Strspn returns the length of the initial segment of the string ... that does contain any of the characters from the mask.

  code
echo strspn("133445xxx123yyy", "12345"); // 6
echo strspn("133 12345", "12345"); // 3
echo strspn("__12345__", "12345"); // 0

You can use this function with strlen to check illegal characters. This function is significantly faster than the equivalent preg_match().

  code
$allowed = "0123456789+. "; 

$phone = "Phone: +021 072.88.544545";
$phone2 = "+021 072.88.544545 (phone)";

echo strspn($phone, $allowed); // 0
echo strspn($phone2, $allowed); // 19

$allowed = "0123456789+. ";
$phone = "+021 / 072.88.544545";

if (strlen($phone) != strspn($phone, $allowed)) {
    echo "not allowed"; // because of "/" char
}

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