moo.rd - Docs - string

Extends the native String object with many methods that works like PHP string methods.These are indispensable into server-side applications, but their functionalities can be very useful into client-sideapplications too. This String extension allows you to use PHP string methods with Javascript.

Extends

Class String

Methods

stripTags		strips all HTML tags from the string
addslashes		adds slashes before all ' or " characters
nl2br		replaces all newline characters with the XHTML 'br' tags
br2nl		replaces all XHTML 'br' tags with the newline characters
stripslashes		strips slashes before all ' or " characters
htmlEntities		converts all possible characters into HTML entities
html_entity_decode		converts all HTML entities into normal characters
trim		trims a string
ltrim		deletes all spaces at beginning of the string
rtrim		deletes all spaces at the end of the string

top method stripTags

strips all HTML tags from the string

Example

 var s = '<table><tr><td>some data</td></tr></table>';
 
 // returns 'some data'
 s.stripTags();

top method addslashes

adds slashes before all ' or " characters

Example

 var s = 'som'e da'ta'
 
 // s is now 'som\'e da\'ta'
 s.addslashes();

top method nl2br

replaces all newline characters with the XHTML 'br' tags

Example

 var s = 'this is \n some data \n'; 
 
 // s is now: 'this is <br /> some data <br />'
 s.nl2br();

top method br2nl

replaces all XHTML 'br' tags with the newline characters

Example

 var s = 'this is <br /> some data <br />'; 
 
 // s is now: 'this is \n some data \n'
 s.br2ln();

top method stripslashes

strips slashes before all ' or " characters

Example

 s = 'som\'e dat\'a';
 
 // s is now 'som'e dat'a'
 s.stripslashes();

top method htmlEntities

converts all possible characters into HTML entities

Example

 var s = '<code><i></i></code>';
 
 // returns '&lt;code&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/code&gt;';
 s.htmlEntities();

top method html_entity_decode

converts all HTML entities into normal characters

Example

 var s = '&lt;code&gt;&lt;i&gt;some data&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/code&gt;';
 
 // returns '<code><i>some data</i></code>';
 s.html_entity_decode();

top method trim

trims a string

Example

 var s = '		some data		';
 
 // returns 'some data'
 s.trim();

top method ltrim

deletes all spaces at beginning of the string

Example

 var s = '		some data';
 
 // returns 'some data'
 s.trim();

top method rtrim

deletes all spaces at the end of the string

Example

 var s = 'some data		';
 
 // returns 'some data'
 s.trim();

Documentation By Riccardo Degni - powered by MakeDocs, CMS by RD
The moo.rd documentation is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC SA License