<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >str_repeat</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="str_pad" HREF="function.str-pad.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="str_replace" HREF="function.str-replace.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.str-pad.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.str-replace.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.str-repeat" ></A >str_repeat</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN90828" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 )</P >str_repeat -- Repeat a string</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN90831" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >str_repeat</B > ( string input, int multiplier)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >input_str</I ></TT > repeated <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >multiplier</I ></TT > times. <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >multiplier</I ></TT > has to be greater than or equal to 0. If the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >multiplier</I ></TT > is set to 0, the function will return an empty string. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN90847" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >str_repeat()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >echo str_repeat("-=", 10);</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > This will output "-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=". </P ><P > See also <A HREF="control-structures.for.html" >for</A >, <A HREF="function.str-pad.html" ><B CLASS="function" >str_pad()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.substr-count.html" ><B CLASS="function" >substr_count()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.str-pad.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.str-replace.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >str_pad</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >str_replace</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >