Class: str

A set of handy string methods

Methods

• str::apostrophe

  Adds an apostrohpe to a string/name if applicable

• str::contains

  Checks if a str contains another string

• str::cutout

  Shortens a string by cutting out chars in the middle
  This method mimicks the shortening which is used for filenames in the Finder

• str::email

  Creates an encoded email address, including proper html-tags

• str::encode

  Encode a string (used for email addresses)

• str::entities

  An internal store for a html entities translation table

• str::excerpt

  Creates an exceprt of a string
  It removes all html tags first and then uses str::short

• str::html

  Converts a string to a html-safe string

• str::length

  An UTF-8 safe version of strlen()

• str::link

  Creates a link tag

• str::lower

  An UTF-8 safe version of strtolower()

• str::match

  preg_match sucks! This tries to make it more convenient

• str::parse

  Parses a string by a set of available methods

• str::plural

  A switch to display either one or the other string dependend on a counter

• str::random

  Generates a random string

• str::sanitize

  A set of sanitizer methods

• str::short

  Shortens a string and adds an ellipsis if the string is too long

• str::shorturl

  Shortens an URL
  It removes http:// or https:// and uses str::short afterwards

• str::split

  Better alternative for explode()
  It takes care of removing empty values
  and it has a built-in way to skip values
  which are too short.

• str::stripslashes

  A better way to strip slashes

• str::substr

  An UTF-8 safe version of substr()

• str::trim

  A more brutal way to trim.

• str::ucfirst

  An UTF-8 safe version of ucfirst()

• str::ucwords

  An UTF-8 safe version of ucwords()

• str::unhtml

  Removes all html tags and encoded chars from a string

• str::unxml

  Removes all xml entities from a string

• str::upper

  An UTF-8 safe version of strotoupper()

• str::urlify

  Convert a string to a safe version to be used in an URL

• str::utf8

  Converts a string to UTF-8

• str::xml

  Converts a string to a xml-safe string
  Converts it to html-safe first and then it
  will replace html entities to xml entities