added some structure to the info and finaly decided to have

some more detailed descriptions for the functions
(although the one-liners should have been pretty clear)


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!-- $Revision: 1.18 $ -->
<!-- $Revision: 1.19 $ -->
<reference id="ref.ctype">
<title>Character type functions</title>
<titleabbrev>ctype</titleabbrev>
<partintro>
<para>
These functions check whether a character or string
falls into a certain character class according to the
current locale.
</para>
<para>
To get these functions to work, you must have compiled PHP
with <option role="configure">--enable-ctype</option>.
<para id="ctype.intro">
The functions provided by this extension check whether a character
or string falls into a certain character class according to the
current locale (see also <function>setlocale</function>).
</para>
<para>
When called with an integer argument these functions
behave exactly like their C counterparts.
behave exactly like their C counterparts from "ctype.h".
</para>
<para>
When called with a string argument they will check
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Passing anything else but a string or integer will
return &false; immediately.
</para>
<section id="ctype.requirenments">
<title>Requirements</title>
<para>
None besides functions from the standard C library which are
always available.
</para>
</section>
<section id="ctype.installation">
<title>Installation</title>
<para>
Beginning with PHP 4.2.0 this function are enabled by default.
For older versions you have to configure and compile PHP
with <option role="configure">--enable-ctype</option>.
</para>
</section>
<section id="ctype.configuration">
<title>Runtime Configuration</title>
<para>
This extension does not define any configuration directives.
</para>
</section>
<section id="ctype.resources">
<title>Resource types</title>
<para>
This extension does not define any resource types.
</para>
</section>
<section id="ctype.constants">
<title>Predefined constants</title>
<para>
This extension does not define any constants.
</para>
</section>
</partintro>
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</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_alnum</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>c</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_alnum</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>text</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
See also <function>setlocale</function>.
Returns &true; if every character in <parameter>text</parameter> is either
a letter or a digit, &false; otherwise. In the standard <literal>C</literal>
locale letters are just <literal>[A-Za-z]</literal>. The function is equivalent
to <literal>(ctype_alpha($text) || ctype_digit($text))</literal>.
</para>
<para>
See also <function>ctype_alpha</function>, <function>ctype_digit</function>,
and <function>setlocale</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="function.ctype-alpha">
<refnamediv>
<refname>ctype_alpha</refname>
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</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_alpha</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>c</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_alpha</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>text</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns &true; if every character in <parameter>text</parameter> is
a letter from the current locale, &false; otherwise.
In the standard <literal>C</literal> locale letters are just
<literal>[A-Za-z]</literal> and <function>ctype_alpha</function> is
equivalent to <literal>(ctype_upper($text) || ctype_lower($text))</literal>,
but other languages have letters that are considered neither upper nor
lower case.
</para>
<para>
See also <function>ctype_upper</function>,
<function>ctype_lower</function>, and
<function>setlocale</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="function.ctype-cntrl">
<refnamediv>
<refname>ctype_cntrl</refname>
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</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_cntrl</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>c</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_cntrl</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>text</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns &true; if every character in <parameter>text</parameter> has
a special control funcion, &false; otherwise. Control characters are
e.g. line feed, tab, esc.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="function.ctype-digit">
<refnamediv>
<refname>ctype_digit</refname>
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</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_digit</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>c</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_digit</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>text</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns &true; if every character in <parameter>text</parameter> is
a decimal digit, &false; otherwise.
</para>
<para>
See also <function>ctype_alnum</function> and <function>ctype_xdigit</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="function.ctype-lower">
<refnamediv>
<refname>ctype_lower</refname>
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</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_lower</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>c</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_lower</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>text</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns &true; if every character in <parameter>text</parameter> is
a lowercase letter in the current locale.
</para>
<para>
See also <function>ctype_alpha</function> and <function>ctype_upper</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="function.ctype-graph">
<refnamediv>
<refname>ctype_graph</refname>
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</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_graph</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>c</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_graph</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>text</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns &true; if every character in <parameter>text</parameter> is
printable and actualy creates visible output (no white space), &false;
otherwise.
</para>
<para>
See also <function>ctype_alnum</function>, <function>ctype_print</function>,
and <function>ctype_punct</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="function.ctype-print">
<refnamediv>
<refname>ctype_print</refname>
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</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_print</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>c</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_print</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>text</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns &true; if every character in <parameter>text</parameter>
will actualy create output (including blanks). Returns &false; if
<parameter>text</parameter> contains control characters or characters
that do not have any output or control function at all.
</para>
<para>
See also <function>ctype_cntrl</function>, <function>ctype_graph</function>,
and <function>ctype_punct</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="function.ctype-punct">
<refnamediv>
<refname>ctype_punct</refname>
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</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_punct</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>c</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_punct</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>text</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns &true; if every character in <parameter>text</parameter>
is printable, but neither letter, digit or blank, &false; otherwise.
</para>
<para>
See also <function>ctype_cntrl</function>, <function>ctype_graph</function>,
and <function>ctype_punct</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="function.ctype-space">
<refnamediv>
<refname>ctype_space</refname>
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</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_space</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>c</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_space</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>text</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns &true; if every character in <parameter>text</parameter>
creates some sort of white space, &false; otherwise. Besides the
blank character this also includes tab, vertical tab, line feed,
carriage return and formfeed characters.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
<refentry id="function.ctype-upper">
<refnamediv>
<refname>ctype_upper</refname>
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</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_upper</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>c</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_upper</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>text</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns &true; if every character in <parameter>text</parameter> is
a uppercase letter in the current locale.
</para>
<para>
See also <function>ctype_alpha</function> and <function>ctype_lower</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_xdigit</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>c</parameter></methodparam>
<methodsynopsis>
<type>bool</type><methodname>ctype_xdigit</methodname>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>text</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Returns &true; if every character in <parameter>text</parameter> is
a hexadecimal 'digit', that is a decimal digit or a character from
<literal>[A-Fa-f]</literal> , &false; otherwise.
</para>
<para>
See also <function>ctype_digit</function>.
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
</reference>
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