Using Laravel for Advanced String Manipulation in PHP

Intermediate

166 Lessons

50h

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Explanations

This course includes

193 Playgrounds

15 Quizzes

52 Illustrations

This course includes

193 Playgrounds

15 Quizzes

52 Illustrations

Course Overview

In this course, you’ll dive deep into advanced PHP string manipulation techniques using the Laravel framework, empowering you to handle complex data formats efficiently and enhance your web development projects. You’ll start by exploring the fundamentals of character encodings and Laravel’s string helpers. Next, you’ll delve into formatting, logical operations, padding methods, word manipulation, and parsing methods, gaining hands-on experience applying these techniques within Laravel applications. You’ll ...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of Laravel’s string helper functions for various string manipulation tasks

Working knowledge of regular expressions syntax and its application in PHP for text processing and pattern matching

Hands-on experience accessing individual characters in UTF-8 strings and managing character encodings effectively

An understanding of Blade directive validation and working with HTML parsing techniques in PHP applications

Familiarity with applied techniques, such as writing a Gherkin parser and utilizing Markov chains for text generation

Hands-on experience formatting strings using different casing conventions such as camel, kebab, and snake cases

Course Content

Introduction

PHP and Laravel Version

What Are Strings?

A Brief History of Character Encodings Unicode and UTF-8 Implementing Upper and Lowercase Functions Iterating Multibyte Strings Iterating UTF-8 Strings Accessing Individual Characters in a UTF-8 String Managing Character Encodings Types of PHP Strings Backticks and Laravel String Helpers Quiz Yourself on Strings Challenge: Iterating UTF-32 strings Solution: Iterating UTF-32 Strings

Fluent Strings

Converting Fluent String Objects to Strings Conditional String Logic

The Formatting Helper Methods

Formatting Strings with Camel Casing Formatting Headlines Formatting Strings with Kebab Casing Lowercasing the First Character of a String Creating Lowercase Variants of Strings Reversing the Characters of a String Creating a URL Friendly Slug From a Title Formatting Strings with Snake Casing Removing Extra Whitespace from a String Formatting Strings with Studly Casing Formatting Strings with Title Casing Uppercasing the First Character of a String Generating Uppercased Variants of Strings Counting the Number of Words in a String Quiz Yourself on Formatting Helper Methods Challenge: The Formatting Helper Methods Solution: The Formating Helper Methods

The Logical Helper Methods

Checking If a String Contains Another String Checking If a String Contains Multiple Substrings Checking If a String Ends with Another String Checking If a String Starts with Another String Checking If a String Contains Only ASCII Characters Quiz Yourself on Logical Helper Methods

The Construction Helper Methods

19 Lessons

The Extraction Helper Methods

13 Lessons

Padding Strings

4 Lessons

String Translations and Extension

5 Lessons

Lines and Words

18 Lessons

Applied Techniques: Writing a Gherkin Parser

22 Lessons

Markov Chains and Text Generation

4 Lessons

Fixed Width Data Parsing

7 Lessons

Splitting Strings

12 Lessons

Applied Techniques: A Blade Directive Validator

8 Lessons

Working with HTML

8 Lessons

Regular Expressions

5 Lessons

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Appendix

1 Lesson

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