(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PHP 5, PHP 7) Get numeric formatting information array localeconv ( void ) Returns an associative array containing localized numeric and monetary formatting information. Returns: localeconv() returns data based upon the current locale as set by setlocale(). The associative array that is returned contains the following fields: Array element Description decimal_point Decimal poi

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5, PHP 7) Calculate Levenshtein distance between two strings int levenshtein ( string $str1, string $str2 ) int levenshtein ( string $str1 , string $str2 , int $cost_ins , int $cost_rep , int $cost_del ) The Levenshtein distance is defined as the minimal number of characters you have to replace, insert or delete to transform str1 into str2. The complexity of the algorithm is O(m*n), where n and m are

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7) Make a string's first character lowercase string lcfirst ( string $str ) Returns a string with the first character of str , lowercased if that character is alphabetic. Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. For instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as umlaut-a (ä) will not be converted. Parameters: str The in

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7) Alias of implode() This function is an alias of: implode().

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7) Join array elements with a string string implode ( string $glue, array $pieces ) string implode ( array $pieces ) Join array elements with a glue string. Note: implode() can, for historical reasons, accept its parameters in either order. For consistency with explode(), however, it may be less confusing to use the documented order of arguments. Parameters: g

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7) Convert special characters to HTML entities string htmlspecialchars ( string $string [, int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401 [, string $encoding = ini_get("default_charset") [, bool $double_encode = true ]]] ) Certain characters have special significance in HTML, and should be represented by HTML entities if they are to preserve their meanings. This function returns a string with these conversions m

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7) Convert special HTML entities back to characters string htmlspecialchars_decode ( string $string [, int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401 ] ) This function is the opposite of htmlspecialchars(). It converts special HTML entities back to characters. The converted entities are: &, " (when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set), ' (when ENT_QUOTES is set), < and >.

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7) Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities string htmlentities ( string $string [, int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401 [, string $encoding = ini_get("default_charset") [, bool $double_encode = true ]]] ) This function is identical to htmlspecialchars() in all ways, except with htmlentities(), all characters which have HTML character entity equivalents are translated into these entities. I

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5, PHP 7) Convert all HTML entities to their applicable characters string html_entity_decode ( string $string [, int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401 [, string $encoding = ini_get("default_charset") ]] ) html_entity_decode() is the opposite of htmlentities() in that it converts all HTML entities in the string to their applicable characters. More precisely, this function decodes all the entities (

(PHP >= 5.4.0) Decodes a hexadecimally encoded binary string string hex2bin ( string $data ) Decodes a hexadecimally encoded binary string. Caution This function does NOT convert a hexadecimal number to a binary number. This can be done using the base_convert() function. Parameters: data Hexadecimal representation of data. Returns: Returns