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The official PHP docs don't really organize the string-functions listing very well.

Main Functions

categories
fx() name description escaping output format encryption formatting output
addcslashes() Quote string with slashes in a C style Y string
addslashes() Quote string with slashes Y string
chop() alias of rtrim()
chunk_split() like str_split(), but returns a string with separators inserted (not an array of chunks) string
count_chars() Return information about characters used in a string. int
crc32() Calculate the crc32 polynomial of a string. int Y
crypt() one-way string hashing Y
escapeshellarg() Escape a string to be used as a shell argument Y.
escapeshellcmd() Escape any execution-invoking characters. Y
explode() Split a string by a string. (See also: preg_split()) array
fprintf() Write a formatted string to a stream. Y stream
localeconv() Get numeric formatting information.
ltrim() Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string.
md5_file() Calculate the md5 hash of a given file.
md5() Calculate the md5 hash of a string.
money_format() Format a number as a currency string.
nl2br() Insert HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string.
number_format() Format a number with grouped thousands.
ord() Convert the first byte (character) of a string to its character code (a value between 0 and 255). int
parse_str() Treating the string as the ?query from a URL, parses it into an array of name-value pairs array (ref)
preg_split() Split a string by a regex. (See also: explode()) array/false
print() Display a string on the console.
printf() Output a formatted string
quoted_printable_decode() Convert a quoted-printable string to an 8 bit string.
quoted_printable_encode() Convert an 8-bit string to a quoted-printable string.
quotemeta() Quote meta characters.
rtrim() Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the end of a string.
setlocale() Set locale information.
sha1_file() Calculate the SHA-1 hash of a file.
sha1() Calculate the SHA-1 hash of a string.
similar_text() Calculate the similarity between two strings
soundex() Calculate the soundex key of a string
sprintf() Return a formatted string
sscanf() Parses input from a string according to a format
str_contains() Determine if a string contains a given substring
str_ends_with() Checks if a string ends with a given substring
str_getcsv() Parse a CSV string into an array (signifier-characters are settable). Y array
str_ireplace() case-insensitive version of str_replace()
str_pad() Pad a string to a certain length with another string
str_repeat() Repeat a string
str_replace() Replace all occurrences of the search string with the replacement string (case-insensitive version: str_ireplace()).
str_rot13() Perform the rot13 transform on a string.
str_shuffle() Randomly shuffle a string.
str_split() Convert a string to an array of (mostly-)equal-sized chunks. array
str_starts_with() Checks if a string starts with a given substring
str_word_count() Return information about words used in a string.
strcasecmp() Binary safe case-insensitive string comparison
strchr() alias of strstr
strcmp() binary-safe string comparison
strcoll() locale-based string comparison
strcspn() Find length of initial segment that does not match a mask (opposite of strspn()).
strip_tags() Strip HTML and PHP tags from a string.
stripcslashes() Un-quote string quoted with addcslashes()
stripos() Find the position of the first occurrence of a case-insensitive substring in a string.
stripslashes() Un-quotes a quoted string
stristr() Case-insensitive strstr()
strlen() Get string length. int
strnatcasecmp() case-insensitive string comparisons using a "natural order" algorithm
strnatcmp() string comparisons using a "natural order" algorithm
strncasecmp() binary-safe case-insensitive string comparison of the first n characters
strncmp() binary-safe string comparison of the first n characters
strpbrk() Search a string for any of a set of characters.
strpos() Find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string.
strrchr() Find the last occurrence of a character in a string.
strrev() Reverse a string.
strripos() Find the position of the last occurrence of a case-insensitive substring in a string.
strrpos() Find the position of the last occurrence of a substring in a string.
strspn() Finds the length of the initial segment of a string consisting entirely of characters contained within a given mask (opposite of strcspn()).
strstr() Find the first occurrence of a string in another string.
strtok() Tokenize string
strtolower() Make a string lowercase.
strtoupper() Make a string uppercase.
strtr() Translate characters or replace substrings
substr_compare() Binary safe comparison of two strings from an offset, up to length characters
substr_count() Count the number of substring occurrences
substr_replace() Replace text within a portion of a string
substr() Return part of a string
trim() Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of a string
ucfirst() Make a string's first character uppercase
ucwords() Uppercase the first character of each word in a string
utf8_decode() Converts a string from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1, replacing invalid or unrepresentable characters
utf8_encode() Converts a string from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
vfprintf() Write a formatted string to a stream.
vprintf() Output a formatted string
vsprintf() Return a formatted string
wordwrap() Wrap a string to a given number of characters.

Splitting/Joining

fx() name description
chunk_split Split a string into smaller chunks
explode Split a string by a string
implode Join array elements with a string
join Alias of implode

Single Character

fx() name description category
chr() Generate a single-byte string from a number conversion
lcfirst() Make a string's first character lowercase conversion
ctype_alnum() Check for alphanumeric character(s) ctype
ctype_alpha() Check for alphabetic character(s) ctype
ctype_cntrl() Check for control character(s) ctype
ctype_digit() Check for numeric character(s) ctype
ctype_graph() Check for any printable character(s) except space ctype
ctype_lower() Check for lowercase character(s) ctype
ctype_print() Check for printable character(s) ctype
ctype_punct() Check for any printable character which is not whitespace or an alphanumeric character ctype
ctype_space() Check for whitespace character(s) ctype
ctype_upper() Check for uppercase character(s) ctype
ctype_xdigit() Check for character(s) representing a hexadecimal digit ctype

Fuzzy

fx() name description
levenshtein Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings
metaphone Calculate the metaphone key of a string

Conversion

fx() name description conversion format
bin2hex Convert binary data into hexadecimal representation hexadecimal
convert_cyr_string Convert from one Cyrillic character set to another Cyrillic
convert_uudecode Decode a uuencoded string uuencoding
convert_uuencode Uuencode a string uuencoding
get_html_translation_table Returns the translation table used by htmlspecialchars and htmlentities HTML
hebrev Convert logical Hebrew text to visual text Hebrew
hebrevc Convert logical Hebrew text to visual text with newline conversion Hebrew
hex2bin Decodes a hexadecimally encoded binary string hexadecimal
html_entity_decode Convert HTML entities to their corresponding characters HTML
htmlentities Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities HTML
htmlspecialchars_decode Convert special HTML entities back to characters HTML
htmlspecialchars Convert special characters to HTML entities HTML
nl_langinfo — Query language and locale information locale