Strings as arrays in php

Question

I know that strings in php are ..... strings but for example I can do

$str = \'String\';
echo $str[0];
echo $str[1];

//result
S
t

echo count($str)
//result         


        

Answer 1

Because that's how it works. You can access specific byte offsets using bracket notation. But that doesn't mean the string is an array and that you can use functions which expect arrays on it. $string[int] is syntactic sugar for substr($string, int, 1), nothing more, nothing less.