A PHP string manipulation library with multibyte support. Compatible with PHP
5.4+, PHP 7+, and HHVM.
``` php
s('string')->toTitleCase()->ensureRigh
t('y') == 'Stringy'
```
Refer to the [1.x branch](https://github.com/danielstjules/Stringy/tree/1.x) or
[2.x branch](https://github.com/danielstjules/Stringy/tree/2.x) for older
docu
mentation.
[](https://travis-ci.org/danielstjules/Stringy)
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* [Why?](#why)
* [Installation](#installation)
* [OO and Chaining](#oo-and-chaining)
* [Implemented Interfaces](#implemented-interfaces)
* [PHP 5.6 Creation](#php-56-creation)
* [StaticStringy](#staticstringy)
* [Class methods](#class-methods)
* [create](#createmixed-str--encoding-)
* [Instance methods](#instance-methods)
<table>
<tr>
<td><a href="#appendstring-string">append</a></td>
<td><a href="#atint-index">at</a></td>
<td><a href="#betweenstring-start-string-end--int-offset">between</a></td>
<td><a href="#camelize">camelize</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#chars">chars</a></td>
<td><a href="#collapsewhitespace">collapseWhitespace</a></td>
<td><a href="#containsstring-needle--boolean-casesensitive--true-">contains</a></td>
<td><a href="#containsallarray-needles--boolean-casesensitive--true-">containsAll</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#containsanyarray-needles--boolean-casesensitive--true-">containsAny</a></td>
<td><a href="#countsubstrstring-substring--boolean-casesensitive--true-">countSubstr</a></td>
<td><a href="#dasherize">dasherize</a></td>
<td><a href="#delimitint-delimiter">delimit</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#endswithstring-substring--boolean-casesensitive--true-">endsWith</a></td>
<td><a href="#endswithanystring-substrings--boolean-casesensitive--true-">endsWithAny</a></td>
<td><a href="#ensureleftstring-substring">ensureLeft</a></td>
<td><a href="#ensurerightstring-substring">ensureRight</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#firstint-n">first</a></td>
<td><a href="#getencoding">getEncoding</a></td>
<td><a href="#haslowercase">hasLowerCase</a></td>
<td><a href="#hasuppercase">hasUpperCase</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#htmldecode">htmlDecode</a></td>
<td><a href="#htmlencode">htmlEncode</a></td>
<td><a href="#humanize">humanize</a></td>
<td><a href="#indexofstring-needle--offset--0-">indexOf</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#indexoflaststring-needle--offset--0-">indexOfLast</a></td>
<td><a href="#insertint-index-string-substring">insert</a></td>
<td><a href="#isalpha">isAlpha</a></td>
<td><a href="#isalphanumeric">isAlphanumeric</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#isba
se64">isba
se64</a></td>
<td><a href="#isblank">isBlank</a></td>
<td><a href="#ishexadecimal">isHexadecimal</a></td>
<td><a href="#isjson">isJson</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#islowercase">isLowerCase</a></td>
<td><a href="#isserialized">isSerialized</a></td>
<td><a href="#isuppercase">isUpperCase</a></td>
<td><a href="#lastint-n">last</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#length">length</a></td>
<td><a href="#lines">lines</a></td>
<td><a href="#longestcommonprefixstring-otherstr">longestCommonPrefix</a></td>
<td><a href="#longestcommonsuffixstring-otherstr">longestCommonSuffix</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#longestcommonsubstringstring-otherstr">longestCommonSubstring</a></td>
<td><a href="#lowercasefirst">lowerCaseFirst</a></td>
<td><a href="#padint-length--string-padstr-----string-padtype--right-">pad</a></td>
<td><a href="#padbothint-length--string-padstr----">padBoth</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#padleftint-length--string-padstr----">padLeft</a></td>
<td><a href="#padrightint-length--string-padstr----">padRight</a></td>
<td><a href="#prependstring-string">prepend</a></td>
<td><a href="#regexreplacestring-pattern-string-replacement--string-options--msr">regexReplace</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#removeleftstring-substring">removeLeft</a></td>
<td><a href="#removerightstring-substring">removeRight</a></td>
<td><a href="#repeatint-multiplier">repeat</a></td>
<td><a href="#replacestring-search-string-replacement">replace</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#reverse">reverse</a></td>
<td><a href="#safetruncateint-length--string-substring---">safeTruncate</a></td>
<td><a href="#shuffle">shuffle</a></td>
<td><a href="#slugify-string-replacement-----string-language--en">slugify</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#sliceint-start--int-end-">slice</a></td>
<td><a href="#splitstring-pattern--int-limit-">split</a></td>
<td><a href="#startswithstring-substring--boolean-casesensitive--true-">startsWith</a></td>
<td><a href="#startswithanystring-substrings--boolean-casesensitive--true-">startsWithAny</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#stripwhitespace">stripWhitespace</a></td>
<td><a href="#substrint-start--int-length-">substr</a></td>
<td><a href="#surroundstring-substring">surround</a></td>
<td><a href="#swapcase">swapCase</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#tidy">tidy</a></td>
<td><a href="#titleize-array-ignore">titleize</a></td>
<td><a href="#toascii-string-language--en--bool-removeunsupported--true-">toAscii</a></td>
<td><a href="#toboolean">toBoolean</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#tolowercase">toLowerCase</a></td>
<td><a href="#tospaces-tablength--4-">toSpaces</a></td>
<td><a href="#totabs-tablength--4-">toTabs</a></td>
<td><a href="#totitlecase">toTitleCase</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#touppercase">toUpperCase</a></td>
<td><a href="#trim-string-chars">trim</a></td>
<td><a href="#trimleft-string-chars">trimLeft</a></td>
<td><a href="#trimright-string-chars">trimRight</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#truncateint-length--string-substring---">truncate</a></td>
<td><a href="#underscored">underscored</a></td>
<td><a href="#uppercamelize">upperCamelize</a></td>
<td><a href="#uppercasefirst">upperCaseFirst</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
* [Extensions](#extensions)
* [Tests](#tests)
* [License](#license)
## Why?
In part due to a lack of multibyte support (including UTF-8) across many of
PHP's standard string functions. But also to offer an OO wrapper around the
`mbstring` module's multibyte-compatible functions. Stringy handles some quirks,
provides additio
nal functionality, and hopefully makes strings a little easier
to work with!
```php
// Standard library
strtoupper('fòôbàř'); // 'FòôBàř'
strlen('fòôbàř'); // 10
// mbstring
mb_strtoupper('fòôbàř'); // 'FÒÔBÀŘ'
mb_strlen('fòôbàř'); // '6'
// Stringy
s('fòôbàř')->toUpperCase(); // 'FÒÔBÀŘ'
s('fòôbàř')->length(); // '6'
```
## Installation
If you're using Composer to manage dependencies, you can include the following
in your composer.json file:
```json
"require": {
"danielstjules/stringy": "~3.1.0"
}
```
Then, after running `composer update` or `php composer.phar update`, you can
load the class using Composer's autoloading:
```php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
```
