1. sprintf Replace the percent (%) sign by a variable passed as an argument:
http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_sprintf.asp
<?php $number = 9; $str = "Beijing"; $txt = sprintf("There are %u million bicycles in %s.",$number,$str); echo $txt; ?>
2. global variable
using global variable inside function
<?php function echo_ip(){ global $user_ip; $string = "your ip addr is ".$user_ip; echo $string; } echo_ip(); ?>
3. print_r
Prints human-readable information about a variable
<?php $string = 'this is a example string'; $string_word_count = str_word_count($string,1); print_r($string_word_count); ?>
4. str_word_count
second parameter
0: the number of words
1: put words in array,
2. put words in array, key is the position of the words in the string
<?php $string = 'this is a example string'; $string_word_count = str_word_count($string,1); print_r($string_word_count); ?>
the function ignore other character, to not ignore certain character
<?php $string = 'this is a example string , $ &'; $string_word_count = str_word_count($string,1,',&'); print_r($string_word_count); ?>
5. string concatenation
dot
<?php $string1 ='apple '.'banana'; $string2 =' pig'; echo $string1.$string2; ?>