The best way to determine the character count of a UTF8 string.
function strlen_utf8( $str ) { return mb_strlen( $str, 'UTF-8' ); } //or... function strlen_utf8( $str ) { $c = 0; $len = strlen( $str ); for ( $i = 0; $i < $len; $i++ ) { //0x80 = 128 $ord = ord( $str[$i] ); if ( $ord & 0x80 ) { $ord <<= 1; while ( $ord & 0x80 ) { $i++; $ord <<= 1; } $c++; } else { $c++; } } return $c; }
If you have a list of items (for example)......
parse_str() is fine for simple stuff but it's not the same as PHP's built way of creating the $_GET magic variable. Why?!?......
Create directory if not exists. function createDir( $dir ) { if ( !is_dir( $dir ) ) { mkdir( $dir, 0777 ); return true; } return false; }...
Escapes special characters in a string for use in an SQL statement. howewer it check get_magic_quotes_gpc function is enable or no. if true , it strips string from slashes and escaped string from spec...
