This document provides summaries of 36 PHP string functions including strlen(), str_word_count(), strrev(), strpos(), str_replace(), addslashes(), chr(), explode(), implode(), join(), md5(), nl2br(), str_split(), strcmp(), strtolower(), strtoupper(), trim(), number_format(), rtrim(), str_ireplace(), str_repeat(), str_shuffle(), str_word_count(), strcasecmp(), str_pad(), strcspn(), strchr(), stripos(), strspn(), and convert_uuencode(). Each function is demonstrated with a short code example. The document was created by Nikul Shah to help explain these essential string