Using Laravel for Advanced String Manipulation in PHP

Intermediate

166 Lessons

50h

Certificate of Completion

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15 Quizzes

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15 Quizzes

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

What You'll Learn

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

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Course Content

1

Introduction

2

What Are Strings?

3

Fluent Strings

4

The Formatting Helper Methods

5

The Logical Helper Methods

6

The Construction Helper Methods

19 Lessons

7

The Extraction Helper Methods

13 Lessons

8

Padding Strings

4 Lessons

9

String Translations and Extension

5 Lessons

10

Lines and Words

18 Lessons

11

Applied Techniques: Writing a Gherkin Parser

22 Lessons

12

Markov Chains and Text Generation

4 Lessons

13

Fixed Width Data Parsing

7 Lessons

14

Splitting Strings

12 Lessons

15

Applied Techniques: A Blade Directive Validator

8 Lessons

16

Working with HTML

8 Lessons

17

Regular Expressions

5 Lessons

18

Conclusion

1 Lesson

19

Appendix

1 Lesson

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