Tells the compiler or interpreter that the character that follows it has a special purpose.
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character classes
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Characters enclosed in square brackets in regular expressions that represent alternate characters that are allowed in a pattern match.
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regular expressions
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Patterns that are used for matching and manipulating strings according to specified rules.
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quantifiers
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Metacharacters that specify the quantity of a match.
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regular expression pattern
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A symbolic representation of the rules that are used for matching and manipulating strings.
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escape sequence
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The escape character combined with one or more other characters.
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Boolean Values
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Values that PHP converts to 1 and 0, that stands for TRUE and FALSE respectively.
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one-way hash
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A fixed length string based on entered text from which it is nearly impossible to determine the original text.
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Text String
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Contains zero or more characters surrounded by double or single quotation marks.
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complex string syntax
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The type of structure in which variables are placed within curly braces inside a string.
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simple string syntax
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Syntax that allows you to use the value of a variable within a string by including the variable name inside a text string with double quotation marks.
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Single Character
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Unlike other programming languages, PHP has no special data type for these.
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query string
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A set of name=value pairs appended to a target URL.
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metacharacters
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Special characters that define the pattern matching rules in a regular expression.
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subexpression
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Characters contained in a set of parentheses with a regular expression that determine the format and quantities of the enclosed characters as a group (sometimes called a subpattern).
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tokens
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A string broken into smaller strings.
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delimiter
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A character or string that is used to separate components in a list (sometimes called a separator).
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anchor
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Specifies that a pattern must appear at a particular position in a string.
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strlen( )
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Returns the length of a string
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ASCII
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The American Standard Code for Information Interchange that are numeric representations of English characters.
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parsing
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The act of dividing a string into logical component substrings or tokens.