StringBuilder for PHP

php stringbuilder
Mark picture Mark · Nov 18, 2010 · Viewed 44.5k times · Source

Has someone made a StringBuilder implementation in PHP?

Answer

Mark Baijens picture Mark Baijens · Nov 18, 2010

Note:

This answer is from 2010, there might be stringbuilders that can improve the performance by now (judging from the comments below). I have not worked with php for a long time so my knowledge is not up to date. This answer might be out dated.

The following question might provide interesting information as well, all tough their conclusion seem to be the same.

php String Concatenation, Performance

Why do you want to use a StringBuilder? Strings in php are mutable. Therefore performance is not an issue.

Just build string like this

$string = "start";
$string .= "appended string";
$string .= "appended string";
etc.

Related questions

How do I check if a string contains a specific word?

Consider: $a = 'How are you?'; if ($a contains 'are') echo 'true'; Suppose I have the code above, what is the correct way to write the statement if ($a contains 'are')?

Read More
Get the full URL in PHP

I use this code to get the full URL: $actual_link = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; The problem is that I use some masks in my .htaccess, so what we see in the URL is not always …

Read More
How do I get PHP errors to display?

I have checked my PHP ini file (php.ini) and display_errors is set and also error reporting is E_ALL. I have restarted my Apache webserver. I have even put these lines at the top of my script, and …

Read More