It adds backslashes in front of some predefined characters in a string.

Example

<?php
echo quotemeta(“php(code)'”);
?>

Output

php(code)’

It convert a 8 bit string to a quoted-printable string

Example

<?php
echo quoted_printable_encode(“php=0Acode”);
?>

Output

php=3D0Acode

It decodes a quoted-printable string to an 8-bit ASCII string

Example

<?php
echo quoted_printable_decode(“php=0Acode”);
?>

Output

php code

It output a formatted string

Example

<?php
parse_str(“first=php&second=code”);
printf(“%s%s”,$first,$second);
?>

Output

phpcode

It outputs a string

Example

<?php
parse_str(“first=php&second=code”);
print $first.$second;
?>

Output

phpcode

It parses the string into variables

Example

<?php
parse_str(“first=php&second=code”);
echo $first.$second;
?>

Output

phpcode

It return ASCII value of character

Example

<?php
echo “ASCII value of ‘a’ is “.ord(“a”);
?>

Output

ASCII value of ‘a’ is 97

It format a number with grouped thousands

Example

<?php
echo number_format(1233.56,2);
?>

Output

1,233.56

It inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

Example

<?php
echo nl2br(“phpncode “);
?>

Output

php
code

It returns specific local information.

Windows platforms does not support this function

Example

<?php
echo nl_langinfo($element);
?>