Understanding PHP documentation

- A major complaint about many open source projects…is the lack of decent documentation.…Fortunately, that's not the case with PHP,…which has an excellent online manual.…This is the English language version,…but it's also available in many other languages.…Just use this change language menu here…and you can choose the language…that you want to read it in.…It's available in French, German, Japanese…and many other languages.…This is a brilliant resource and you should make a habit…of visiting it whenever you need help with PHP.…

The problem for beginners is knowing where to start…because there's just so much information here.…But this chapter is devoted to functions…and this is one of the most important sections,…the function reference.…So let's go have a look at that.…And the function reference lists…all of the built in functions organized…into a large number of categories…and I recommend that you start down towards the bottom.…What we need to find is Text Processing.…

There it is and it's Strings that's important.…