Get first n amount of characters from a string. You could use substr for that, but you will get empty results when there are special characters. Thus multibyte string method is the right way to go.
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4 Jan, 2016
To explode multiple delimiters PHP you have to use regular expression. Add your delimiters in the parentheses separated by pipe.
8 Sep, 2015
You can replace all whitespaces (space, new lines, etc.) with a single space using regular expression find and replace.
7 May, 2014
This function checks whether a string is valid UTF-8. You can ensure that the string you operate is a valid UTF-8 string. preg_match fails on strings containing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. It does...
25 Nov, 2013
Encodes special characters in a plain-text string for display as HTML. Validates strings as UTF-8, if not UTF-8 it returns an empty string. It prevents CSS attacks on IE 6.
26 Apr, 2012
Detect character encoding in PHP and convert string to UTF-8.