String Class Info:

Class Declaration:

class String

File name:
cake/libs/string.php
Description:

String handling methods.

Package
cake
Subpackage
cake.cake.libs

Properties:

Method Summary:

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cleanInsert

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Cleans up a String::insert() formated string with given $options depending on the 'clean' key in $options. The default method used is text but html is also available. The goal of this function is to replace all whitespace and uneeded markup around placeholders that did not get replaced by String::insert().

Parameters:
  • string $str required

  • string $options required

Method defined in:
cake/libs/string.php on line 276
Return

string

Access

public

Static

See

String::insert()

insert

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Replaces variable placeholders inside a $str with any given $data. Each key in the $data array corresponds to a variable placeholder name in $str. Example: String::insert(':name is :age years old.', array('name' => 'Bob', '65')); Returns: Bob is 65 years old.

Available $options are:

  • before: The character or string in front of the name of the variable placeholder (Defaults to :)
  • after: The character or string after the name of the variable placeholder (Defaults to null)
  • escape: The character or string used to escape the before character / string (Defaults to \)
  • format: A regex to use for matching variable placeholders. Default is: /(?<!\\)\:%s/ (Overwrites before, after, breaks escape / clean)
  • clean: A boolean or array with instructions for String::cleanInsert

Parameters:
  • string $str required

    A string containing variable placeholders

  • string $data required

    A key => val array where each key stands for a placeholder variable name to be replaced with val

  • string $options optional array ( )

    An array of options, see description above

Method defined in:
cake/libs/string.php on line 208
Return

string

Access

public

Static

tokenize

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Tokenizes a string using $separator, ignoring any instance of $separator that appears between $leftBound and $rightBound

Parameters:
  • string $data required

    The data to tokenize

  • string $separator optional ','

    The token to split the data on.

  • string $leftBound optional '('

    The left boundary to ignore separators in.

  • string $rightBound optional ')'

    The right boundary to ignore separators in.

Method defined in:
cake/libs/string.php on line 117
Return

array Array of tokens in $data.

Access

public

Static

uuid

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Generate a random UUID

Method defined in:
cake/libs/string.php on line 37
See

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt

Return

RFC 4122 UUID

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