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Working With Strings
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Capitalization, Etc.
The Str class also provides three convenient methods for manipulating string capitalization: upper, lower, and title. These are more intelligent versions of the PHP strtoupper, strtolower, and ucwords methods. More intelligent because they can handle UTF-8 input if the multi-byte string PHP extension is installed on your web server. To use them, just pass a string to the method:
echo Str::lower('I am a string.');
echo Str::upper('I am a string.');
echo Str::title('I am a string.');
Word & Character Limiting
Limiting the number of characters in a string:
echo Str::limit($string, 10);
echo Str::limit_exact($string, 10);
Limiting the number of words in a string:
echo Str::words($string, 10);
Generating Random Strings
Generating a random string of alpha-numeric characters:
echo Str::random(32);
Generating a random string of alphabetic characters:
echo Str::random(32, 'alpha');
Singular & Plural
The String class is capable of transforming your strings from singular to plural, and vice versa.
Getting the plural form of a word:
echo Str::plural('user');
Getting the singular form of a word:
echo Str::singular('users');
Getting the plural form if given value is greater than one:
echo Str::plural('comment', count($comments));
Slugs
Generating a URL friendly slug:
return Str::slug('My First Blog Post!');
Generating a URL friendly slug using a given separator:
return Str::slug('My First Blog Post!', '_');