str_pad
no idea how many times i have written this.
function br($times=1,$definition="<br/>\n")
{
echo str_repeat($definition,$times);
}
str_repeat
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
str_repeat — Repeat a string
Description
string str_repeat
( string $input
, int $multiplier
)
Returns input repeated multiplier times.
Parameters
- input
-
The string to be repeated.
- multiplier
-
Number of time the input string should be repeated.
multiplier has to be greater than or equal to 0. If the multiplier is set to 0, the function will return an empty string.
Return Values
Returns the repeated string.
Examples
Example #1 str_repeat() example
<?php
echo str_repeat("-=", 10);
?>
The above example will output:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
See Also
- for
- str_pad() - Pad a string to a certain length with another string
- substr_count() - Count the number of substring occurrences
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User Contributed Notes
str_repeat
divinity76 at gmail dot com
18-Nov-2011 07:58
Anonymous
23-Oct-2011 06:51
hi guys ,
i've faced this example :
<?php
$my_head = str_repeat("°~", 35);
echo $my_head;
?>
so , the length should be 35x2 = 70 !!!
if we echo it :
<?php
$my_head = str_repeat("°~", 35);
echo strlen($my_head); // 105
echo mb_strlen($my_head, 'UTF-8'); // 70
?>
be carefull with characters and try to use mb_* package to make sure everything goes well ...
r3d dot w0rm at yahoo dot com
22-Feb-2010 01:52
str_repeat() Function Integer Overflow
For more info see :
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51105
Damien Bezborodov
28-Apr-2009 02:45
Here is a simple one liner to repeat a string multiple times with a separator:
<?php
implode($separator, array_fill(0, $multiplier, $input));
?>
Example script:
<?php
// How I like to repeat a string using standard PHP functions
$input = 'bar';
$multiplier = 5;
$separator = ',';
print implode($separator, array_fill(0, $multiplier, $input));
print "\n";
// Say, this comes in handy with count() on an array that we want to use in an
// SQL query such as 'WHERE foo IN (...)'
$args = array('1', '2', '3');
print implode(',', array_fill(0, count($args), '?'));
print "\n";
?>
Example Output:
bar,bar,bar,bar,bar
?,?,?
claude dot pache at gmail dot com
10-Feb-2009 03:25
Here is a shorter version of Kees van Dieren's function below, which is moreover compatible with the syntax of str_repeat:
<?php
function str_repeat_extended($input, $multiplier, $separator='')
{
return $multiplier==0 ? '' : str_repeat($input.$separator, $multiplier-1).$input;
}
?>
Kees van Dieren
16-Jan-2009 02:26
Needed a function to repeat a string with a separator.
<?php
/**
* Repeats <tt>$string</tt> <tt>$multiplier</tt> times, separated with <tt>$sep</tt>.
*
* str_repeat_sep('?', ',', 3) ==> "?,?,?"
* str_repeat_seap('..', '/', 3) ==> "../../.."
*
* @param string $string
* @param string $sep
* @param int $multiplier
* @return string
*/
function str_repeat_sep($string, $sep, $multiplier) {
$ret = "";
for($i=0;$i<$multiplier;$i++) {
if ($i) $ret.=$sep;
$ret.=$string;
}
return $ret;
}
?>
Alper Kaya
30-Jun-2007 05:09
If you want to hide a part of your password, you can use this code. It's very simple and might be required in your user management panel.
<?php
$password = "12345abcdef";
$visibleLength = 4; // 4 chars from the beginning
echo substr($password,0,4).str_repeat("*", (strlen($password)-$visibleLength));
?>
15-Sep-2005 09:32
In reply to what Roland Knall wrote:
It is much simpler to use printf() or sprintf() for leading zeros.
<?php
printf("%05d<br>\n", 1); // Will echo 00001
sprintf("%05d<br>\n", 1); // Will return 00001
?>
21-Jul-2003 12:45
str_repeat does not repeat symbol with code 0 on some (maybe all?) systems (tested on PHP Version 4.3.2 , FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 ).
Use <pre>
while(strlen($str) < $desired) $str .= chr(0);
</pre> to have string filled with zero-symbols.
dakota at dir dot bg
25-Jun-2002 05:06
Note that the first argument is parsed only once, so it's impossible to do things like this:
echo str_repeat(++$i, 10);
The example will produce 10 times the value of $i+1, and will not do a cycle from $i to $i+10.
bryantSPAMw at geocities dot SPAM dot com
25-Oct-2001 06:16
(For the benefit of those searching the website:)
This is the equivalent of Perl's "x" (repetition) operator, for eg. str_repeat("blah", 8) in PHP does the same thing as "blah" x 8 in Perl.