Advanced PHP Strings

Working with multibyte strings Unicode and UTF-8 can feel intimidating when writing PHP. Advanced PHP Strings: Text analysis generation and parsing via. Laravel offers a guided experience navigating the different techniques to properly work with and manage multibyte strings. The book also offers extensive discussions around the Laravel string helper methods to provide a familiar reference point while navigating the intricacies of string and text manipulation.Through hundreds of hand-crafted examples and in-depth discussions you will learn how to:* Read and write multibyte strings using PHP* Safely loop through the characters of a multibyte string* Work with over sixty Laravel string helper methods and fluent strings* Manage documents with a variety of different line-ending styles* Convert string positions to line and column numbers (and back)Large hands-on example projects include:* Writing a Gherkin language parser from the ground up* Planning and developing a system to validate Laravel Blade directives* Parsing HTML documents with embedded templating languages