The Symfony Polyfill / Mbstring Component
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The Symfony Polyfill / Mbstring Component
This component provides a partial, native PHP implementation for the
mbstringPHP extension.
Installation
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$ composer require symfony/polyfill-mbstringAlternatively, you can clone the https://github.com/symfony/polyfill-mbstring repository.
Note
If you install this component outside of a Symfony application, you must
require the vendor/autoload.php file in your code to enable the class
autoloading mechanism provided by Composer. Read
this article for more details.
Usage
Once this component is installed in your application, you can use the following constants and functions, no matter if the PHP mbstring extension is installed or not in your server.
Provided Constants
MB_CASE_UPPER(value =0)MB_CASE_LOWER(value =1)MB_CASE_TITLE(value =2)
Provided Functions
- mb_check_encoding
- mb_chr
- mb_convert_case
- mb_convert_encoding
- mb_convert_variables
- mb_decode_mimeheader
- mb_decode_numericentity
- mb_detect_encoding
- mb_detect_order
- mb_encode_mimeheader
- mb_encode_numericentity
- mb_encoding_aliases
- mb_get_info
- mb_http_input
- mb_http_output
- mb_internal_encoding
- mb_language
- mb_list_encodings
- mb_ord
- mb_output_handler
- mb_parse_str
- mb_scrub
- mb_stripos
- mb_stristr
- mb_strlen
- mb_strpos
- mb_strrchr
- mb_strrichr
- mb_strripos
- mb_strrpos
- mb_strstr
- mb_strtolower
- mb_strtoupper
- mb_strwidth
- mb_substitute_character
- mb_substr_count
- mb_substr
