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This class manipulates characters

Installation

Two methods to install Application package with composer :

Add to your "composer.json" file into require section :

"mulertech/char-manipulation": "^1.0"

and run the command :

php composer.phar update

Run the command :

php composer.phar require mulertech/char-manipulation "^1.0"

Usage

specialCharsTrim, trim and convert special characters to HTML entities :

CharManipulation::specialCharsTrim(' Test trim ');

// 'Test trim'

CharManipulation::specialCharsTrim('<script\>Test without html balise</script>');

// 'Test without html balise'

CharManipulation::specialCharsTrim([' Test "trim"', '<script\>with</script>', ' array  ', ' and', 'null ', null]);

// ['Test &quot;trim&quot;', 'with', 'array', 'and', 'null', null]

specialCharsDecode (decode chars into string or array by reference, no return) :

$test = ''test single quote';
CharManipulation::specialCharsDecode($test);

// echo $test;
// "'test single quote";

$test = [
            'test1' => ''test single quote',
            'test2' => 'test quote"',
            'test3' => 'with null',
            'test4' => null,
            'test5' => [
                'test5a' => "'test single quote",
                'test5b' => 'test quote"',
                'test5c' => 'with null',
                'test5d' => null
            ]
        ];
CharManipulation::specialCharsDecode($test);

// echo $test;
// [
        'test1' => "'test single quote",
        'test2' => 'test quote"',
        'test3' => 'with null',
        'test4' => null,
        'test5' => [
            'test5a' => "'test single quote",
            'test5b' => 'test quote"',
            'test5c' => 'with null',
            'test5d' => null
        ]
   ];