String Utilities

Valhalla's string utilities extend PHP's existing string functions and operators to make advanced string manipulations, comparisons, and construction effortless.

Available Functions:

Here is a list of each of the available functions in Collection and how they can be used. Note that each of these functions is static and therefore can be called without instantiating any objects.

startsWith:

Parameters:

• string $haystack
• string $needle
• string $encoding (Optional) The character encoding for the string. Defaults to 'UTF-8'.

Return Value: Returns true if $haystack begins with $needle , otherwise returns false . Throws an \InvalidArgumentException exception if $needle is an empty string.

endsWith:

Parameters:

• string $haystack
• string $needle
• string $encoding (Optional) The character encoding for the string. Defaults to 'UTF-8'.

Return Value: Returns true if $haystack ends with $needle , otherwise returns false . Throws an \InvalidArgumentException exception if $needle is an empty string.

truncateWithEllipsis:

Parameters:

• string $text
• int $maxLength
• string $ellipsis (Optional) The suffix to stick to the end of the truncated string. Defaults to '...'.
• string $encoding (Optional) The character encoding for the string. Defaults to 'UTF-8'.

Return Value: Returns a shortened string suffixed with an ellipsis.

Shortens the string and adds an ellipsis to the end and returns a string that is exactly $maxLength characters or less (in the case that the string was already shorter than $maxLength ). Throws an exception if $ellipsis is longer than $maxLength .

vsprintfNamed:

Parameters:

• string $format A format string with named parameters surrounded with curly braces.
• array $args
• boolean $failOnMissing (Optional) Whether or not to throw an exception if a parameter is missing. Defaults to true.

Return Value: Returns a string in the format of $format with values from $args inserted. Throws an \OutOfBoundsException expection if $failOnMissing is true and a parameter is missing.

Accepts a format string, an array of arguments, and an optional boolean $failOnMissing (defaults to true ). Builds a string with named parameters. If $failOnMissing is true, throws an exception if a parameter for the format string is missing from the list of arguments; if it is not true, an empty string is inserted for the missing parameter.

Example:

$foo = array('age' => 5, 'name' => 'john');
echo vsprintfNamed("{name} is {age}", $foo);