A PHP library with a variety of string manipulation functions with multibyte support. Offers both OO method chaining and a procedural-style static wrapper. Compatible with PHP 5.3+. Inspired by underscore.string.js.

• Requiring/Loading
• OO and Procedural
• Methods
  • at
  • camelize
  • collapseWhitespace
  • contains
  • count
  • create
  • dasherize
  • endsWith
  • ensureLeft
  • ensureRight
  • first
  • humanize
  • insert
  • isAlpha
  • isAlphanumeric
  • isBlank
  • isHexadecimal
  • isJson
  • isLowerCase
  • isSerialized
  • isUpperCase
  • last
  • length
  • longestCommonPrefix
  • longestCommonSuffix
  • longestCommonSubstring
  • lowerCaseFirst
  • pad
  • padBoth
  • padLeft
  • padRight
  • regexReplace
  • removeLeft
  • removeRight
  • replace
  • reverse
  • safeTruncate
  • shuffle
  • slugify
  • startsWith
  • substr
  • surround
  • swapCase
  • tidy
  • titleize
  • toAscii
  • toLowerCase
  • toSpaces
  • toTabs
  • toUpperCase
  • trim
  • truncate
  • underscored
  • upperCamelize
  • upperCaseFirst
• Tests
• License

Requiring/Loading

If you're using Composer to manage dependencies, you can include the following in your composer.json file:

"require": {
    "danielstjules/stringy": "dev-master"
}

Then, after running composer update or php composer.phar update, you can load the class using Composer's autoloading:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

Otherwise, you can simply require the file directly:

require_once 'path/to/Stringy/src/Stringy/Stringy.php';
// or
require_once 'path/to/Stringy/src/Stringy/StaticStringy.php';

And in either case, I'd suggest using an alias.

use Stringy\Stringy as S;
// or
use Stringy\StaticStringy as S;

OO and Procedural

The library offers both OO method chaining with Stringy\Stringy, as well as procedural-style static method calls with Stringy\StaticStringy. An example of the former is the following:

use Stringy\Stringy as S;
echo S::create('Fòô     Bàř', 'UTF-8')->collapseWhitespace()->swapCase();  // 'fÒÔ bÀŘ'

Stringy\Stringy has a __toString() method, which returns the current string when the object is used in a string context, ie: (string) S::create('foo') // 'foo'

Using the static wrapper, an alternative is the following:

use Stringy\StaticStringy as S;
$string = S::collapseWhitespace('Fòô     Bàř', 'UTF-8');
echo S::swapCase($string, 'UTF-8');  // 'fÒÔ bÀŘ'

Methods

In the list below, any static method other than S::create refers to a method in Stringy\StaticStringy. For all others, they're found in Stringy\Stringy. Furthermore, all methods that return a Stringy object or string do not modify the original.

Note: If $encoding is not given, it defaults to mb_internal_encoding().

at

$stringy->at(int $index)

S::substr(int $index [, string $encoding ])

Returns the character of the string at $index, with indexes starting at 0.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->at(6);
S::at('fòô bàř', 6, 'UTF-8');  // 'ř'

camelize

$stringy->camelize();

S::camelize(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns a camelCase version of the supplied string. Trims surrounding spaces, capitalizes letters following digits, spaces, dashes and underscores, and removes spaces, dashes, underscores.

S::create('Camel-Case')->camelize();
S::camelize('Camel-Case');  // 'camelCase'

collapseWhitespace

$stringy->collapseWhitespace()

S::collapseWhitespace(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Trims the string and replaces consecutive whitespace characters with a single space. This includes tabs and newline characters, as well as multibyte whitespace such as the thin space and ideographic space.

S::create('   Ο     συγγραφέας  ')->collapseWhitespace();
S::collapseWhitespace('   Ο     συγγραφέας  ');  // 'Ο συγγραφέας'

contains

$stringy->contains(string $needle [, boolean $caseSensitive = true ])

S::contains(string $haystack, string $needle [, boolean $caseSensitive = true [, string $encoding ]])

Returns true if the string contains $needle, false otherwise. By default, the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive by setting $caseSensitive to false.

S::create('Ο συγγραφέας είπε', 'UTF-8')->contains('συγγραφέας');
S::contains('Ο συγγραφέας είπε', 'συγγραφέας', 'UTF-8');  // true

count

$stringy->count(string $substring [, boolean $caseSensitive = true ])

S::count(string $str, string $substring [, boolean $caseSensitive = true [, string $encoding ]])

Returns the number of occurrences of $substring in the given string. By default, the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive by setting $caseSensitive to false.

S::create('Ο συγγραφέας είπε', 'UTF-8')->count('α');
S::count('Ο συγγραφέας είπε', 'α', 'UTF-8');  // 2

create

S::create(mixed $str, [, $encoding ])

Creates a Stringy object and assigns both str and encoding properties the supplied values. $str is cast to a string prior to assignment, and if $encoding is not specified, it defaults to mb_internal_encoding(). It then returns the initialized object. Throws an InvalidArgumentException if the first argument is an array or object without a __toString method.

$stringy = S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8');  // 'fòô bàř'

dasherize

$stringy->dasherize();

S::dasherize(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns a lowercase and trimmed string separated by dashes. Dashes are inserted before uppercase characters (with the exception of the first character of the string), and in place of spaces as well as underscores.

S::create('TestDCase')->dasherize();
S::dasherize('TestDCase');  // 'test-d-case'

endsWith

$stringy->endsWith(string $substring [, boolean $caseSensitive = true ])

S::endsWith(string $str, string $substring [, boolean $caseSensitive = true [, string $encoding ]])

Returns true if the string ends with $substring, false otherwise. By default, the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive by setting $caseSensitive to false.

S::create('FÒÔ bàřs', 'UTF-8')->endsWith('àřs', true);
S::endsWith('FÒÔ bàřs', 'àřs', true, 'UTF-8');  // true

ensureLeft

$stringy->ensureLeft(string $substring)

S::ensureLeft(string $substring [, string $encoding ])

Ensures that the string begins with $substring. If it doesn't, it's prepended.

S::create('foobar')->ensureLeft('http://');
S::ensureLeft('foobar', 'http://');  // 'http://foobar'

ensureRight

$stringy->ensureRight(string $substring)

S::ensureRight(string $substring [, string $encoding ])

Ensures that the string begins with $substring. If it doesn't, it's appended.

S::create('foobar')->ensureRight('.com');
S::ensureRight('foobar', '.com');  // 'foobar.com'

first

$stringy->first(int $n)

S::first(int $n [, string $encoding ])

Returns the first $n characters of the string.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->first(3);
S::first('fòô bàř', 3, 'UTF-8');  // 'fòô'

humanize

$stringy->humanize()

S::humanize(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Capitalizes the first word of the string, replaces underscores with spaces, and strips '_id'.

S::create('author_id')->humanize();
S::humanize('author_id');  // 'Author'

insert

$stringy->insert(int $index, string $substring)

S::insert(string $str, int $index, string $substring [, string $encoding ])

Inserts $substring into the string at the $index provided.

S::create('fòô bà', 'UTF-8')->insert('ř', 6);
S::insert('fòô bà', 'ř', 6, 'UTF-8');  // 'fòô bàř'

isAlpha

$stringy->isAlpha()

S::isAlpha(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns true if the string contains only alphabetic chars, false otherwise.

S::create('丹尼爾', 'UTF-8')->isAlpha();
S::isAlpha('丹尼爾', 'UTF-8');  // true

isAlphanumeric

$stringy->isAlphanumeric()

S::isAlphanumeric(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns true if the string contains only alphabetic and numeric chars, false otherwise.

S::create('دانيال1', 'UTF-8')->isAlphanumeric();
S::isAlphanumeric('دانيال1', 'UTF-8');  // true

isBlank

$stringy->isBlank()

S::isBlank(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns true if the string contains only whitespace chars, false otherwise.

S::create("\n\t  \v\f")->isBlank();
S::isBlank("\n\t  \v\f");  // true

isHexadecimal

$stringy->isHexadecimal()

S::isHexadecimal(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns true if the string contains only hexadecimal chars, false otherwise.

S::create('A102F')->isHexadecimal();
S::isHexadecimal('A102F');  // true

isJson

$stringy->isJson()

S::isJson(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns true if the string is JSON, false otherwise.

S::create('{"foo":"bar"}')->isJson();
S::isJson('{"foo":"bar"}');  // true

isLowerCase

$stringy->isLowerCase()

S::isLowerCase(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns true if the string contains only lower case chars, false otherwise.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->isLowerCase();
S::isLowerCase('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8');  // true

isSerialized

$stringy->isSerialized()

S::isSerialized(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns true if the string is serialized, false otherwise.

S::create('a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";}', 'UTF-8')->isSerialized();
S::isSerialized('a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";}', 'UTF-8');  // true

isUpperCase

$stringy->isUpperCase()

S::isUpperCase(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns true if the string contains only upper case chars, false otherwise.

S::create('FÒÔBÀŘ', 'UTF-8')->isUpperCase();
S::isUpperCase('FÒÔBÀŘ', 'UTF-8');  // true

last

$stringy->last(int $n)

S::last(int $n [, string $encoding ])

Returns the last $n characters of the string.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->last(3);
S::last('fòô bàř', 3, 'UTF-8');  // 'bàř'

length

$stringy->length()

S::length(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns the length of the string. An alias for PHP's mb_strlen() function.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->length();
S::length('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8');  // 7

longestCommonPrefix

$stringy->longestCommonPrefix(string $otherStr)

S::longestCommonPrefix(string $str, string $otherStr [, $encoding ])

Returns the longest common prefix between the string and $otherStr.

S::create('fòô bar', 'UTF-8')->longestCommonPrefix('fòr bar');
S::longestCommonPrefix('fòô bar', 'fòr bar', 'UTF-8');  // 'fò'

longestCommonSuffix

$stringy->longestCommonSuffix(string $otherStr)

S::longestCommonSuffix(string $str, string $otherStr [, $encoding ])

Returns the longest common suffix between the string and $otherStr.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->longestCommonSuffix('fòr bàř');
S::longestCommonSuffix('fòô bàř', 'fòr bàř', 'UTF-8');  // ' bàř'

longestCommonSubstring

$stringy->longestCommonSubstring(string $otherStr)

S::longestCommonSubstring(string $str, string $otherStr [, $encoding ])

Returns the longest common substring between the string and $otherStr. In the case of ties, it returns that which occurs first.

S::create('foo bar')->longestCommonSubstring('boo far');
S::longestCommonSubstring('foo bar', 'boo far');  // 'oo '

lowerCaseFirst

$stringy->lowerCaseFirst();

S::lowerCaseFirst(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Converts the first character of the supplied string to lower case.

S::create('Σ test', 'UTF-8')->lowerCaseFirst();
S::lowerCaseFirst('Σ test', 'UTF-8');  // 'σ test'

pad

$stringy->pad(int $length [, string $padStr = ' ' [, string $padType = 'right' ]])

S::pad(string $str , int $length [, string $padStr = ' ' [, string $padType = 'right' [, string $encoding ]]])

Pads the string to a given length with $padStr. If length is less than or equal to the length of the string, no padding takes places. The default string used for padding is a space, and the default type (one of 'left', 'right', 'both') is 'right'. Throws an InvalidArgumentException if $padType isn't one of those 3 values.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->pad( 10, '¬ø', 'left');
S::pad('fòô bàř', 10, '¬ø', 'left', 'UTF-8');  // '¬ø¬fòô bàř'

padBoth

$stringy->padBoth(int $length [, string $padStr = ' ' ])

S::padBoth(string $str , int $length [, string $padStr = ' ' [, string $encoding ]])

Returns a new string of a given length such that both sides of the string string are padded. Alias for pad() with a $padType of 'both'.

S::create('foo bar')->padBoth(9, ' ');
S::padBoth('foo bar', 9, ' ');  // ' foo bar '

padLeft

$stringy->padLeft(int $length [, string $padStr = ' ' ])

S::padLeft(string $str , int $length [, string $padStr = ' ' [, string $encoding ]])

Returns a new string of a given length such that the beginning of the string is padded. Alias for pad() with a $padType of 'left'.

S::create($str, $encoding)->padLeft($length, $padStr);
S::padLeft('foo bar', 9, ' ');  // '  foo bar'

padRight

$stringy->padRight(int $length [, string $padStr = ' ' ])

S::padRight(string $str , int $length [, string $padStr = ' ' [, string $encoding ]])

Returns a new string of a given length such that the end of the string is padded. Alias for pad() with a $padType of 'right'.

S::create('foo bar')->padRight(10, '_*');
S::padRight('foo bar', 10, '_*');  // 'foo bar_*_'

regexReplace

$stringy->regexReplace(string $pattern, string $replacement [, string $options = 'msr'])

S::regexReplace(string $str, string $pattern, string $replacement [, string $options = 'msr' [, string $encoding ]])

Replaces all occurrences of $pattern in $str by $replacement. An alias for mb_ereg_replace(). Note that the 'i' option with multibyte patterns in mb_ereg_replace() requires PHP 5.4+. This is due to a lack of support in the bundled version of Oniguruma in PHP 5.3.

S::create('fòô ', 'UTF-8')->regexReplace('f[òô]+\s', 'bàř', 'msr');
S::regexReplace('fòô ', 'f[òô]+\s', 'bàř', 'msr', 'UTF-8');  // 'bàř'

removeLeft

$stringy->removeLeft(string $substring)

S::removeLeft(string $str, string $substring [, string $encoding ])

Returns a new string with the prefix $substring removed, if it was present.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->removeLeft('fòô ');
S::removeLeft('fòô bàř', 'fòô ', 'UTF-8');  // 'bàř'

removeRight

$stringy->removeRight(string $substring)

S::removeRight(string $str, string $substring [, string $encoding ])

Returns a new string with the suffix $substring removed, if it was present.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->removeRight(' bàř');
S::removeRight('fòô bàř', ' bàř', 'UTF-8');  // 'fòô'

replace

$stringy->replace(string $search, string $replacement)

S::replace(string $str, string $search, string $replacement [, string $encoding ])

Replaces all occurrences of $search in $str by $replacement.

S::create('fòô bàř fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->replace('fòô ', '');
S::replace('fòô bàř fòô bàř', 'fòô ', '', 'UTF-8');  // 'bàř bàř'

reverse

$stringy->reverse()

S::reverse(string $str, [, string $encoding ])

Returns a reversed string. A multibyte version of strrev().

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->reverse();
S::reverse('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8');  // 'řàb ôòf'

safeTruncate

$stringy->safeTruncate(int $length, [, string $substring = '' ])

S::safeTruncate(string $str, int $length, [, string $substring = '' [, string $encoding ]])

Truncates the string to a given length, while ensuring that it does not chop words. If $substring is provided, and truncating occurs, the string is further truncated so that the substring may be appended without exceeding the desired length.

S::create('What are your plans today?')->safeTruncate(22, '...');
S::safeTruncate('What are your plans today?', 22, '...');  // 'What are your plans...'

shuffle

$stringy->shuffle()

S::shuffle(string $str [, string $encoding ])

A multibyte str_shuffle() function. It returns a string with its characters in random order.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->shuffle();
S::shuffle('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8');  // 'àôřb òf'

slugify

$stringy->slugify([ string $replacement = '-' ])

S::slugify(string $str [, string $replacement = '-' ])

Converts the string into an URL slug. This includes replacing non-ASCII characters with their closest ASCII equivalents, removing non-alphanumeric and non-ASCII characters, and replacing whitespace with $replacement. The replacement defaults to a single dash, and the string is also converted to lowercase.

S::create('Using strings like fòô bàř')->slugify();
S::slugify('Using strings like fòô bàř');  // 'using-strings-like-foo-bar'

startsWith

$stringy->startsWith(string $substring [, boolean $caseSensitive = true ])

S::startsWith(string $str, string $substring [, boolean $caseSensitive = true [, string $encoding ]])

Returns true if the string begins with $substring, false otherwise. By default, the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive by setting $caseSensitive to false.

S::create('FÒÔ bàřs', 'UTF-8')->startsWith('fòô bàř', false);
S::startsWith('FÒÔ bàřs', 'fòô bàř', false, 'UTF-8');  // true

substr

$stringy->substr(int $start [, int $length ])

S::substr(string $str, int $start [, int $length [, string $encoding ]])

Returns the substring beginning at $start with the specified $length. It differs from the mb_substr() function in that providing a $length of null will return the rest of the string, rather than an empty string.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->substr(2, 3);
S::substr('fòô bàř', 2, 3, 'UTF-8');  // 'ô b'

surround

$stringy->surround(string $substring)

S::surround(string $str, string $substring)

Surrounds a string with the given substring.

S::create(' ͜ ')->surround('ʘ');
S::surround(' ͜ ', 'ʘ');  // 'ʘ ͜ ʘ'

swapCase

$stringy->swapCase();

S::swapCase(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns a case swapped version of the string.

S::create('Ντανιλ', 'UTF-8')->swapCase();
S::swapCase('Ντανιλ', 'UTF-8');  // 'νΤΑΝΙΛ'

tidy

$stringy->tidy()

S::tidy(string $str)

Returns a string with smart quotes, ellipsis characters, and dashes from Windows-1252 (commonly used in Word documents) replaced by their ASCII equivalents.

S::create('“I see…”')->tidy();
S::tidy('“I see…”');  // '"I see..."'

titleize

$stringy->titleize([ string $encoding ])

S::titleize(string $str [, array $ignore [, string $encoding ]])

Returns a trimmed string with the first letter of each word capitalized. Ignores the case of other letters, allowing for the use of acronyms. Also accepts an array, $ignore, allowing you to list words not to be capitalized.

$ignore = array('at', 'by', 'for', 'in', 'of', 'on', 'out', 'to', 'the');
S::create('i like to watch DVDs at home', 'UTF-8')->titleize($ignore);
S::titleize('i like to watch DVDs at home', $ignore, 'UTF-8');
// 'I Like to Watch DVDs at Home'

toAscii

$stringy->toAscii()

S::toAscii(string $str)

Returns an ASCII version of the string. A set of non-ASCII characters are replaced with their closest ASCII counterparts, and the rest are removed.

S::create('fòô bàř')->toAscii();
S::toAscii('fòô bàř');  // 'foo bar'

toLowerCase

$stringy->toLowerCase()

S::toLowerCase(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Converts all characters in the string to lowercase. An alias for PHP's mb_strtolower().

S::create('FÒÔ BÀŘ', 'UTF-8')->toLowerCase();
S::toLowerCase('FÒÔ BÀŘ', 'UTF-8');  // 'fòô bàř'

toSpaces

$stringy->toSpaces([ tabLength = 4 ])

S::toSpaces(string $str, [, int $tabLength = 4 ])

Converts each tab in the string to some number of spaces, as defined by $tabLength. By default, each tab is converted to 4 consecutive spaces.

S::create(' String speech = "Hi"')->toSpaces();
S::toSpaces('   String speech = "Hi"');  // '    String speech = "Hi"'

toTabs

$stringy->toTabs([ tabLength = 4 ])

S::toTabs(string $str, [, int $tabLength = 4 ])

Converts each occurrence of some consecutive number of spaces, as defined by $tabLength, to a tab. By default, each 4 consecutive spaces are converted to a tab.

S::create('    fòô    bàř')->toTabs();
S::toTabs('    fòô    bàř');  // '   fòô bàř'

toUpperCase

$stringy->toUpperCase()

S::toUpperCase(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Converts all characters in the string to uppercase. An alias for PHP's mb_strtoupper().

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->toUpperCase();
S::toUpperCase('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8');  // 'FÒÔ BÀŘ'

trim

$stringy->trim()

S::trim(string $str)

Returns the trimmed string. An alias for PHP's trim() function.

S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->trim();
S::trim(' fòô bàř ');  // 'fòô bàř'

truncate

$stringy->truncate(int $length, [, string $substring = '' ])

S::truncate(string $str, int $length, [, string $substring = '' [, string $encoding ]])

Truncates the string to a given length. If $substring is provided, and truncating occurs, the string is further truncated so that the substring may be appended without exceeding the desired length.

S::create('What are your plans today?')->safeTruncate(19, '...');
S::safeTruncate('What are your plans today?', 19, '...');  // 'What are your pl...'

underscored

$stringy->underscored();

S::underscored(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns a lowercase and trimmed string separated by underscores. Underscores are inserted before uppercase characters (with the exception of the first character of the string), and in place of spaces as well as dashes.

S::create('TestUCase')->underscored();
S::underscored('TestUCase');  // 'test_u_case'

upperCamelize

$stringy->upperCamelize();

S::upperCamelize(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Returns an UpperCamelCase version of the supplied string. It trims surrounding spaces, capitalizes letters following digits, spaces, dashes and underscores, and removes spaces, dashes, underscores.

S::create('Upper Camel-Case')->upperCamelize();
S::upperCamelize('Upper Camel-Case');  // 'UpperCamelCase'

upperCaseFirst

$stringy->upperCaseFirst();

S::upperCaseFirst(string $str [, string $encoding ])

Converts the first character of the supplied string to upper case.

S::create('σ test', 'UTF-8')->upperCaseFirst();
S::upperCaseFirst('σ test', 'UTF-8');  // 'Σ test'

Tests

From the project directory, tests can be ran using phpunit

License

Released under the MIT License - see LICENSE.txt for details.