Advanced PHP Strings: Text analysis, generation, and parsing via. Laravel
Advanced PHP Strings is the essential companion for Laravel developers ready to master powerful string handling, text analysis, and parsing techniques. This in-depth guide takes you beyond basic operations, demonstrating how to effectively leverage Laravel's fluent string methods, macros, and helper classes. You'll learn practical skills such as text generation with Markov chains, complex parsing tasks, including building your own Gherkin parser and Blade directive validator, as well as the sophisticated use of regular expressions and handling multilingual text effortlessly. Enhance your Laravel applications with robust, maintainable, and performant string manipulation techniques, tailored specifically for real-world developer scenarios.
Advanced PHP Strings equips Laravel developers with expert-level knowledge and practical skills to master string handling, text analysis, and parsing in their applications. This comprehensive guide delves deeply into Laravel's powerful built-in helpers, macros, and fluent string methods, helping you simplify complex tasks such as parsing structured documents, managing translations, and generating dynamic text. With approachable explanations and real-world examples, you'll quickly learn techniques such as Markov-chain text generation, parsing custom Blade directives, and accurately handling multibyte strings and regular expressions.
Explicitly designed for Laravel developers, this book bridges theory and practice, empowering you to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code for any text-related challenge. Whether you're parsing YAML frontmatter, validating Blade templates, managing HTML content, or working with international character sets, this resource will help you streamline development and elevate your Laravel skills to the next level.
Key features include:
- In-depth coverage of Laravel's fluent string helper methods and macros.
- Real-world projects include a Gherkin parser and a Blade directive validator.
- Comprehensive guidance on advanced regular expressions and multibyte string handling.
- Practical examples of Markov chain text generation and fixed-width data parsing.
- Strategies for efficient parsing, extraction, and manipulation of complex text formats.
Unlock the full potential of your Laravel applications by mastering string handling and parsing techniques with Advanced PHP Strings.
Details
- Page Count
- 749
- Publish Date
- 2022-10-14
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- $19.99
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. What are Strings
Introduces strings, exploring Unicode, UTF-8 encoding, types of PHP strings, and basic string operations including iteration of multibyte strings.
2. Fluent Strings
Explores Laravel's fluent string helper class, demonstrating its flexibility and convenience for managing and transforming strings.
3. The Formatting Helper Methods
Covers Laravel helper methods for transforming strings, including camelCasing, kebab-casing, URL slugs, and title formatting.
4. The Logical Helper Methods
Discusses helper methods that analyze strings logically, such as checking if strings contain substrings, or if they start or end with specific values.
5. The Construction Helper Methods
Teaches how to generate and manipulate strings, including replacing substrings, truncating text, generating random strings, and ensuring strings end with specific sequences.
6. The Extraction Helper Methods
Focuses on extracting substrings, including retrieving text between delimiters, getting words, and counting occurrences of specific substrings.
7. Padding Strings
Demonstrates methods to pad strings at the beginning, end, or both, which is particularly useful for formatting numeric and textual outputs.
8. String Translations: Singular and Plural Word Forms
Describes managing translations, pluralization, and dynamic string replacements within Laravel’s translation system.
9. Extending Strings with Macros and Mixins
Explains how to extend Laravel's string functionalities using macros and mixins to create customized and reusable string operations.
10. Lines and Words
Addresses analyzing text by lines and words, including extracting specific line/column information, word splitting, frequency counting, and generating initialisms and acronyms.
11. More Lines and Words
Continues advanced analysis techniques, including locating adjacent words or lines, managing indentation, and estimating reading time.
12. Applied Techniques: Writing a Gherkin Parser
Applies previously covered techniques to develop a complete Gherkin parser, covering lexical analysis, parsing scenarios, steps, data tables, and localization support.
13. Markov Chains and Text Generation
Introduces generating randomized text using Markov Chains, including training models from sample texts and weighted random selection.
14. Fixed Width Data Parsing
Covers techniques for parsing and handling fixed-width formatted data, commonly encountered in financial data and legacy system outputs.
15. Splitting Strings
Discusses sophisticated methods for splitting complex strings using regular expressions and cursor systems, including parsing YAML frontmatter and single-file components.
16. Applied Techniques: A Blade Directive Validator
Uses advanced string parsing and validation techniques to build a Blade directive parser and validator, ensuring consistency and correctness in Laravel views.
17. Working with HTML
Explores parsing and analyzing HTML fragments and attributes, using Symfony components, managing templated HTML, and handling embedded languages.
18. Regular Expressions
Provides a comprehensive primer on regular expressions, detailing Laravel's regex utilities, capture groups, negative look-behinds, and various pattern-matching techniques.