Multibyte String
@Silvan
Make sure to use encoding with strlen as well. Use:
<?php
mb_substr($str,$start,mb_strlen($str, $encoding),$encoding);
?>
mb_substr
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)
mb_substr — Get part of string
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string mb_substr
( string $str
, int $start
[, int $length
[, string $encoding
]] )
mb_substr() returns the portion of str specified by the start and length parameters.
mb_substr() performs multi-byte safe substr() operation based on number of characters. Position is counted from the beginning of str . First character's position is 0. Second character position is 1, and so on.
If encoding is omitted, internal encoding is assumed.
encoding is character encoding. If it is omitted, internal character encoding is used.
See also mb_strcut(), mb_internal_encoding().
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zachary dot craig at gmail dot com
10-Nov-2008 01:59
10-Nov-2008 01:59
projektas at gmail dot com
21-Oct-2008 06:29
21-Oct-2008 06:29
First letter in upper case <hr />
<?php
header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
if (isset($_POST['check']) && !empty($_POST['check'])) {
echo htmlspecialchars(ucfirst_utf8($_POST['check']));
} else {
echo htmlspecialchars(ucfirst_utf8('Žąsinų'));
}
function ucfirst_utf8($str) {
if (mb_check_encoding($str,'UTF-8')) {
$first = mb_substr(
mb_strtoupper($str, "utf-8"),0,1,'utf-8'
);
return $first.mb_substr(
mb_strtolower($str,"utf-8"),1,mb_strlen($str),'utf-8'
);
} else {
return $str;
}
}
?>
<form method="post" action="" >
<input type="input" name="check" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
Silvan
01-Sep-2007 03:30
01-Sep-2007 03:30
Passing null as length will not make mb_substr use it's default, instead it will interpret it as 0.
<?php
mb_substr($str,$start,null,$encoding); //Returns '' (empty string) just like substr()
?>
Instead use:
<?php
mb_substr($str,$start,mb_strlen($str),$encoding);
?>
xiaogil at yahoo dot fr
02-Aug-2005 08:33
02-Aug-2005 08:33
Thanks Darien from /freenode #php for the following example (a little bit changed).
It just prints the 6th character of $string.
You can replace the digits by the same in japanese, chinese or whatever language to make a test, it works perfect.
<?php
mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
$string = "0123456789";
$mystring = mb_substr($string,5,1);
echo $mystring;
?>
(I couldn't replace 0123456789 by chinese numbers for example here, because it's automatically converted into latin digits on this website, look :
零一二三四
五六七八九)
gilv
drraf at tlen dot pl
23-Feb-2005 06:44
23-Feb-2005 06:44
Note: If borders are out of string - mb_string() returns empty _string_, when function substr() returns _boolean_ false in this case.
Keep this in mind when using "===" comparisions.
Example code:
<?php
var_dump( substr( 'abc', 5, 2 ) ); // returns "false"
var_dump( mb_substr( 'abc', 5, 2 ) ); // returns ""
?>
It's especially confusing when using mbstring with function overloading turned on.