PHP Strings

String variables are used to store and manipulate a piece of text.





$msg="Hello World";

echo $msg;

?>

The output will be

Hello World

The Concatenation Operator

Dot (.) is used as concatenation operator. To concatenate two variables together, use the dot (.) operator:



$str1="Hello World";

$str2="Adam";

echo $ str1. " " . $ str2;

?>

Hello World Adam

Length of a String:

The strlen() function is used to find the length of a string.


$string=”Hello World”;

echo strlen($string);

?>

Output will be

11

The strpos() function:

The strpos() function is used to search for a string or character within another string



If the string is found in the string, this function will return the position of the first match. If no match is found, it will return FALSE.



echo strpos("Example of strops function","of");

?>

The output will be

8