1.5.1 release

Fix toAscii failing to remove remaining non-ascii characters
Remove leading or trailing replacement from slugified string, if present
2025-09-01 01:01:46 +02:00 · 2014-04-19 11:03:05 -04:00 · 2014-04-19 00:49:46 -04:00 · 2014-04-19 00:33:59 -04:00 · 2014-04-15 10:09:11 +04:00 · 2014-04-01 18:03:48 +04:00
11 changed files with 1843 additions and 1488 deletions
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 vendor/
+composer.lock
+.DS_Store
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,46 @@
+### 1.5.1 (2014-04-19)
+
+  * Fixed toAscii() failing to remove remaining non-ascii characters
+  * Updated slugify() to treat dash and underscore as delimiters by default
+  * Updated slugify() to remove leading and trailing delimiter, if present
+
+### 1.5.0 (2014-03-19)
+
+  * Made both str and encoding protected, giving property access to subclasses
+  * Added getEncoding()
+  * Fixed isJSON() giving false negatives
+  * Cleaned up and simplified: replace(), collapseWhitespace(), underscored(),
+    dasherize(), pad(), padLeft(), padRight() and padBoth()
+  * Fixed handling consecutive invalid chars in slugify()
+  * Removed conflicting hard sign transliteration in toAscii()
+
+### 1.4.0 (2014-02-12)
+
+  * Implemented the IteratorAggregate interface, added chars()
+  * Renamed count() to countSubstr()
+  * Updated count() to implement Countable interface
+  * Implemented the ArrayAccess interface with positive and negative indices
+  * Switched from PSR-0 to PSR-4 autoloading
+
+### 1.3.0 (2013-12-16)
+
+  * Additional Bulgarian support for toAscii
+  * str property made private
+  * Constructor casts first argument to string
+  * Constructor throws an InvalidArgumentException when given an array
+  * Constructor throws an InvalidArgumentException when given an object without
+    a __toString method
+
+### 1.2.2 (2013-12-04)
+
+  * Updated create function to use late static binding
+  * Added optional $replacement param to slugify
+
+### 1.2.1 (2013-10-11)
+
+  * Cleaned up tests
+  * Added homepage to composer.json
+
 ### 1.2.0 (2013-09-15)

  * Fixed pad's use of InvalidArgumentException
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,23 +1,28 @@
-# Stringy
+![Stringy](http://danielstjules.com/stringy/logo.png)

-A PHP library with a variety of string manipulation functions with multibyte support. Offers both OO method chaining and a procedural-style static wrapper. Compatible with PHP 5.3+. Inspired by underscore.string.js.
+A PHP library with a variety of string manipulation functions with multibyte
+support. Offers both OO method chaining and a procedural-style static wrapper.
+Compatible with PHP 5.3+. Inspired by underscore.string.js.

 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/danielstjules/Stringy.png)](https://travis-ci.org/danielstjules/Stringy)

 * [Requiring/Loading](#requiringloading)
 * [OO and Procedural](#oo-and-procedural)
+* [Implemented Interfaces](#implemented-interfaces)
 * [Methods](#methods)
    * [at](#at)
    * [camelize](#camelize)
+    * [chars](#chars)
    * [collapseWhitespace](#collapsewhitespace)
    * [contains](#contains)
-    * [count](#count)
+    * [countSubstr](#countsubstr)
    * [create](#create)
    * [dasherize](#dasherize)
    * [endsWith](#endswith)
    * [ensureLeft](#ensureleft)
    * [ensureRight](#ensureright)
    * [first](#first)
+    * [getEncoding](#getencoding)
    * [humanize](#humanize)
    * [insert](#insert)
    * [isAlpha](#isalpha)
@@ -62,18 +67,21 @@ A PHP library with a variety of string manipulation functions with multibyte sup
    * [underscored](#underscored)
    * [upperCamelize](#uppercamelize)
    * [upperCaseFirst](#uppercasefirst)
+* [Links](#links)
 * [Tests](#tests)
 * [License](#license)

 ## Requiring/Loading

-If you're using Composer to manage dependencies, you can include the following in your composer.json file:
+If you're using Composer to manage dependencies, you can include the following
+in your composer.json file:

    "require": {
-        "danielstjules/stringy": "dev-master"
+        "danielstjules/stringy": ">=1.5.1"
    }

-Then, after running `composer update` or `php composer.phar update`, you can load the class using Composer's autoloading:
+Then, after running `composer update` or `php composer.phar update`, you can
+load the class using Composer's autoloading:

 ```php
 require 'vendor/autoload.php';
@@ -82,9 +90,9 @@ require 'vendor/autoload.php';
 Otherwise, you can simply require the file directly:

 ```php
-require_once 'path/to/Stringy/src/Stringy/Stringy.php';
+require_once 'path/to/Stringy/src/Stringy.php';
 // or
-require_once 'path/to/Stringy/src/Stringy/StaticStringy.php';
+require_once 'path/to/Stringy/src/StaticStringy.php';
 ```

 And in either case, I'd suggest using an alias.
@@ -106,9 +114,9 @@ use Stringy\Stringy as S;
 echo S::create('Fòô     Bàř', 'UTF-8')->collapseWhitespace()->swapCase();  // 'fÒÔ bÀŘ'
 ```

-`Stringy\Stringy` contains a __toString() method, which returns the current
-string when the object is used in a string context. Its $str property is also
-public, and can be accessed directly if required, ie: `S::create('foo')->str  // 'foo'`
+`Stringy\Stringy` has a __toString() method, which returns the current string
+when the object is used in a string context, ie:
+`(string) S::create('foo')  // 'foo'`

 Using the static wrapper, an alternative is the following:

@@ -118,10 +126,50 @@ $string = S::collapseWhitespace('Fòô     Bàř', 'UTF-8');
 echo S::swapCase($string, 'UTF-8');  // 'fÒÔ bÀŘ'
 ```

+## Implemented Interfaces
+
+`Stringy\Stringy` implements the `IteratorAggregate` interface, meaning that
+`foreach` can be used with an instance of the class:
+
+``` php
+$stringy = S::create('Fòô Bàř', 'UTF-8');
+foreach ($stringy as $char) {
+    echo $char;
+}
+// 'Fòô Bàř'
+```
+
+It implements the `Countable` interface, enabling the use of `count()` to
+retrieve the number of characters in the string:
+
+``` php
+$stringy = S::create('Fòô', 'UTF-8');
+count($stringy);  // 3
+```
+
+Furthermore, the `ArrayAccess` interface has been implemented. As a result,
+`isset()` can be used to check if a character at a specific index exists. And
+since `Stringy\Stringy` is immutable, any call to `offsetSet` or `offsetUnset`
+will throw an exception. `offsetGet` has been implemented, however, and accepts
+both positive and negative indexes. Invalid indexes result in an
+`OutOfBoundsException`.
+
+``` php
+$stringy = S::create('Bàř', 'UTF-8');
+echo $stringy[2];     // 'ř'
+echo $stringy[-2];    // 'à'
+isset($stringy[-4]);  // false
+
+$stringy[3];          // OutOfBoundsException
+$stringy[2] = 'a';    // Exception
+```
+
 ## Methods

-In the list below, any static method other than S::create refers to a
-method in `Stringy\StaticStringy`. For all others, they're found in `Stringy\Stringy`. Furthermore, all methods that return a Stringy object or string do not modify the original.
+In the list below, any static method other than S::create refers to a method in
+`Stringy\StaticStringy`. For all others, they're found in `Stringy\Stringy`.
+Furthermore, all methods that return a Stringy object or string do not modify
+the original. Stringy objects are immutable.

 *Note: If `$encoding` is not given, it defaults to `mb_internal_encoding()`.*

@@ -129,9 +177,9 @@ method in `Stringy\StaticStringy`. For all others, they're found in `Stringy\Str

 $stringy->at(int $index)

-S::substr(int $index [, string $encoding ])
+S::at(int $index [, string $encoding ])

-Returns the character of the string at $index, with indexes starting at 0.
+Returns the character at $index, with indexes starting at 0.

 ```php
 S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->at(6);
@@ -144,15 +192,28 @@ $stringy->camelize();

 S::camelize(string $str [, string $encoding ])

-Returns a camelCase version of the supplied string. Trims surrounding
-spaces, capitalizes letters following digits, spaces, dashes and
-underscores, and removes spaces, dashes, underscores.
+Returns a camelCase version of the string. Trims surrounding spaces,
+capitalizes letters following digits, spaces, dashes and underscores,
+and removes spaces, dashes, as well as underscores.

 ```php
 S::create('Camel-Case')->camelize();
 S::camelize('Camel-Case');  // 'camelCase'
 ```

+#### chars
+
+$stringy->chars();
+
+S::chars(string $str [, string $encoding ])
+
+Returns an array consisting of the characters in the string.
+
+```php
+S::create('Fòô Bàř', 'UTF-8')->chars();
+S::chars('Fòô Bàř', 'UTF-8');  // array(F', 'ò', 'ô', ' ', 'B', 'à', 'ř')
+```
+
 #### collapseWhitespace

 $stringy->collapseWhitespace()
@@ -183,28 +244,30 @@ S::create('Ο συγγραφέας είπε', 'UTF-8')->contains('συγγραφ
 S::contains('Ο συγγραφέας είπε', 'συγγραφέας', 'UTF-8');  // true
 ```

-#### count
+#### countSubstr

-$stringy->count(string $substring [, boolean $caseSensitive = true ])
+$stringy->countSubstr(string $substring [, boolean $caseSensitive = true ])

-S::count(string $str, string $substring [, boolean $caseSensitive = true [, string $encoding ]])
+S::countSubstr(string $str, string $substring [, boolean $caseSensitive = true [, string $encoding ]])

 Returns the number of occurrences of $substring in the given string.
 By default, the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive
 by setting $caseSensitive to false.

 ```php
-S::create('Ο συγγραφέας είπε', 'UTF-8')->count('α');
-S::count('Ο συγγραφέας είπε', 'α', 'UTF-8');  // 2
+S::create('Ο συγγραφέας είπε', 'UTF-8')->countSubstr('α');
+S::countSubstr('Ο συγγραφέας είπε', 'α', 'UTF-8');  // 2
 ```

 #### create

-S::create(string $str, [, $encoding ])
+S::create(mixed $str, [, $encoding ])

 Creates a Stringy object and assigns both str and encoding properties
-the supplied values. If $encoding is not specified, it defaults to
-mb_internal_encoding(). It then returns the initialized object.
+the supplied values. $str is cast to a string prior to assignment, and if
+$encoding is not specified, it defaults to mb_internal_encoding(). It
+then returns the initialized object. Throws an InvalidArgumentException
+if the first argument is an array or object without a __toString method.

 ```php
 $stringy = S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8');  // 'fòô bàř'
@@ -279,6 +342,16 @@ S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->first(3);
 S::first('fòô bàř', 3, 'UTF-8');  // 'fòô'
 ```

+#### getEncoding
+
+$stringy->getEncoding()
+
+Returns the encoding used by the Stringy object.
+
+```php
+S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->getEncoding();  // 'UTF-8'
+```
+
 #### humanize

 $stringy->humanize()
@@ -503,7 +576,7 @@ string used for padding is a space, and the default type (one of 'left',
 $padType isn't one of those 3 values.

 ```php
-S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->pad( 10, '¬ø', 'left',);
+S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->pad( 10, '¬ø', 'left');
 S::pad('fòô bàř', 10, '¬ø', 'left', 'UTF-8');  // '¬ø¬fòô bàř'
 ```

@@ -571,7 +644,7 @@ $stringy->removeLeft(string $substring)

 S::removeLeft(string $str, string $substring [, string $encoding ])

-Returns a new string with the prefix $substring removed, if it was present.
+Returns a new string with the prefix $substring removed, if present.

 ```php
 S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->removeLeft('fòô ');
@@ -584,7 +657,7 @@ $stringy->removeRight(string $substring)

 S::removeRight(string $str, string $substring [, string $encoding ])

-Returns a new string with the suffix $substring removed, if it was present.
+Returns a new string with the suffix $substring removed, if present.

 ```php
 S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->removeRight(' bàř');
@@ -624,8 +697,8 @@ $stringy->safeTruncate(int $length, [, string $substring = '' ])
 S::safeTruncate(string $str, int $length, [, string $substring = '' [, string $encoding ]])

 Truncates the string to a given length, while ensuring that it does not
-chop words. If $substring is provided, and truncating occurs, the string
-is further truncated so that the substring may be appended without
+split words. If $substring is provided, and truncating occurs, the
+string is further truncated so that the substring may be appended without
 exceeding the desired length.

 ```php
@@ -639,7 +712,8 @@ $stringy->shuffle()

 S::shuffle(string $str [, string $encoding ])

-A multibyte str_shuffle() function. It returns a string with its characters in random order.
+A multibyte str_shuffle() function. It returns a string with its characters in
+random order.

 ```php
 S::create('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')->shuffle();
@@ -648,13 +722,14 @@ S::shuffle('fòô bàř', 'UTF-8');  // 'àôřb òf'

 #### slugify

-$stringy->slugify()
+$stringy->slugify([ string $replacement = '-' ])

-S::slugify(string $str)
+S::slugify(string $str [, string $replacement = '-' ])

 Converts the string into an URL slug. This includes replacing non-ASCII
-characters with their closest ASCII equivalents, removing non-alphanumeric
-and non-ASCII characters, and replacing whitespace with dashes. The string
+characters with their closest ASCII equivalents, removing remaining
+non-ASCII and non-alphanumeric characters, and replacing whitespace with
+$replacement. The replacement defaults to a single dash, and the string
 is also converted to lowercase.

 ```php
@@ -739,9 +814,8 @@ $stringy->titleize([ string $encoding ])
 S::titleize(string $str [, array $ignore [, string $encoding ]])

 Returns a trimmed string with the first letter of each word capitalized.
-Ignores the case of other letters, allowing for the use of acronyms.
-Also accepts an array, $ignore, allowing you to list words not to be
-capitalized.
+Ignores the case of other letters, preserving any acronyms. Also accepts
+an array, $ignore, allowing you to list words not to be capitalized.

 ```php
 $ignore = array('at', 'by', 'for', 'in', 'of', 'on', 'out', 'to', 'the');
@@ -845,8 +919,8 @@ truncating occurs, the string is further truncated so that the substring
 may be appended without exceeding the desired length.

 ```php
-S::create('What are your plans today?')->safeTruncate(19, '...');
-S::safeTruncate('What are your plans today?', 19, '...');  // 'What are your pl...'
+S::create('What are your plans today?')->truncate(19, '...');
+S::truncate('What are your plans today?', 19, '...');  // 'What are your pl...'
 ```

 #### underscored
@@ -892,6 +966,13 @@ S::create('σ test', 'UTF-8')->upperCaseFirst();
 S::upperCaseFirst('σ test', 'UTF-8');  // 'Σ test'
 ```

+## Links
+
+The following is a list of libraries that extend Stringy:
+
+ * [SliceableStringy](https://github.com/danielstjules/SliceableStringy):
+Python-like string slices in PHP
+
 ## Tests

 From the project directory, tests can be ran using `phpunit`
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
        "multibyte", "string", "manipulation", "utility", "methods", "utf-8",
        "helpers", "utils", "utf"
    ],
+    "homepage": "https://github.com/danielstjules/Stringy",
    "license": "MIT",
    "authors": [
        {
@@ -16,7 +17,15 @@
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3.0"
    },
+    "require-dev": {
+        "phpunit/phpunit": "4.0.*"
+    },
+    "support": {
+        "issues": "https://github.com/danielstjules/Stringy/issues",
+        "source": "https://github.com/danielstjules/Stringy"
+    },
    "autoload": {
-        "psr-0": { "Stringy": "src/" }
+        "psr-4": { "Stringy\\": "src/" },
+        "classmap": [ "tests" ]
    }
 }
--- a/phpunit.xml.dist
+++ b/phpunit.xml.dist
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
         syntaxCheck="false">
    <testsuites>
        <testsuite name="Stringy">
-            <directory>tests/Stringy</directory>
+            <directory>tests</directory>
        </testsuite>
    </testsuites>
 </phpunit>
--- a/src/StaticStringy.php
+++ b/src/StaticStringy.php
@@ -0,0 +1,792 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Stringy;
+
+class StaticStringy
+{
+    /**
+     * Returns an array consisting of the characters in the string.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String for which to return the chars
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return array  An array of string chars
+     */
+    public static function chars($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->chars();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts the first character of the supplied string to upper case.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to modify
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string String with the first character being upper case
+     */
+    public static function upperCaseFirst($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->upperCaseFirst();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts the first character of the supplied string to lower case.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to modify
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string String with the first character being lower case
+     */
+    public static function lowerCaseFirst($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->lowerCaseFirst();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a camelCase version of the string. Trims surrounding spaces,
+     * capitalizes letters following digits, spaces, dashes and underscores,
+     * and removes spaces, dashes, as well as underscores.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to convert to camelCase
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string String in camelCase
+     */
+    public static function camelize($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->camelize();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an UpperCamelCase version of the supplied string. It trims
+     * surrounding spaces, capitalizes letters following digits, spaces, dashes
+     * and underscores, and removes spaces, dashes, underscores.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to convert to UpperCamelCase
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string String in UpperCamelCase
+     */
+    public static function upperCamelize($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->upperCamelize();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a lowercase and trimmed string separated by dashes. Dashes are
+     * inserted before uppercase characters (with the exception of the first
+     * character of the string), and in place of spaces as well as underscores.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to convert
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string Dasherized string
+     */
+    public static function dasherize($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->dasherize();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a lowercase and trimmed string separated by underscores.
+     * Underscores are inserted before uppercase characters (with the exception
+     * of the first character of the string), and in place of spaces as well as
+     * dashes.
+     *
+     * @param  string  $str      String to convert
+     * @param  string  $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string  Underscored string
+     */
+    public static function underscored($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->underscored();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a case swapped version of the string.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to swap case
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string String with each character's case swapped
+     */
+    public static function swapCase($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->swapCase();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a trimmed string with the first letter of each word capitalized.
+     * Ignores the case of other letters, preserving any acronyms. Also accepts
+     * an array, $ignore, allowing you to list words not to be capitalized.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to titleize
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @param  array  $ignore   An array of words not to capitalize
+     * @return string Titleized string
+     */
+    public static function titleize($str, $ignore = null, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->titleize($ignore);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Capitalizes the first word of the string, replaces underscores with
+     * spaces, and strips '_id'.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to humanize
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string A humanized string
+     */
+    public static function humanize($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->humanize();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a string with smart quotes, ellipsis characters, and dashes from
+     * Windows-1252 (commonly used in Word documents) replaced by their ASCII
+     * equivalents.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str String to remove special chars
+     * @return string String with those characters removed
+     */
+    public static function tidy($str)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str)->tidy();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Trims the string and replaces consecutive whitespace characters with a
+     * single space. This includes tabs and newline characters, as well as
+     * multibyte whitespace such as the thin space and ideographic space.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      The string to cleanup whitespace
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The trimmed string with condensed whitespace
+     */
+    public static function collapseWhitespace($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->collapseWhitespace();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an ASCII version of the string. A set of non-ASCII characters are
+     * replaced with their closest ASCII counterparts, and the rest are removed.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str A string with non-ASCII characters
+     * @return string A string containing only ASCII characters
+     */
+    public static function toAscii($str)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str)->toAscii();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Pads the string to a given length with $padStr. If length is less than
+     * or equal to the length of the string, no padding takes places. The
+     * default string used for padding is a space, and the default type (one of
+     * 'left', 'right', 'both') is 'right'. Throws an InvalidArgumentException
+     * if $padType isn't one of those 3 values.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to pad
+     * @param  int    $length   Desired string length after padding
+     * @param  string $padStr   String used to pad, defaults to space
+     * @param  string $padType  One of 'left', 'right', 'both'
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The padded string
+     * @throws \InvalidArgumentException If $padType isn't one of 'right',
+     *         'left' or 'both'
+     */
+    public static function pad($str, $length, $padStr = ' ', $padType = 'right',
+                               $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->pad($length, $padStr, $padType);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a new string of a given length such that the beginning of the
+     * string is padded. Alias for pad() with a $padType of 'left'.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to pad
+     * @param  int    $length   Desired string length after padding
+     * @param  string $padStr   String used to pad, defaults to space
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The padded string
+     */
+    public static function padLeft($str, $length, $padStr = ' ', $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->padLeft($length, $padStr);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a new string of a given length such that the end of the string
+     * is padded. Alias for pad() with a $padType of 'right'.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to pad
+     * @param  int    $length   Desired string length after padding
+     * @param  string $padStr   String used to pad, defaults to space
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The padded string
+     */
+    public static function padRight($str, $length, $padStr = ' ', $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->padRight($length, $padStr);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a new string of a given length such that both sides of the
+     * string are padded. Alias for pad() with a $padType of 'both'.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to pad
+     * @param  int    $length   Desired string length after padding
+     * @param  string $padStr   String used to pad, defaults to space
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The padded string
+     */
+    public static function padBoth($str, $length, $padStr = ' ', $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->padBoth($length, $padStr);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the string begins with $substring, false otherwise. By
+     * default, the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive
+     * by setting $caseSensitive to false.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str           String to check the start of
+     * @param  string $substring     The substring to look for
+     * @param  bool   $caseSensitive Whether or not to enforce case-sensitivity
+     * @param  string $encoding      The character encoding
+     * @return bool   Whether or not $str starts with $substring
+     */
+    public static function startsWith($str, $substring, $caseSensitive = true,
+                                      $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->startsWith($substring, $caseSensitive);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the string ends with $substring, false otherwise. By
+     * default, the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive
+     * by setting $caseSensitive to false.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str           String to check the end of
+     * @param  string $substring     The substring to look for
+     * @param  bool   $caseSensitive Whether or not to enforce case-sensitivity
+     * @param  string $encoding      The character encoding
+     * @return bool   Whether or not $str ends with $substring
+     */
+    public static function endsWith($str, $substring, $caseSensitive = true,
+                                    $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->endsWith($substring, $caseSensitive);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts each tab in the string to some number of spaces, as defined by
+     * $tabLength. By default, each tab is converted to 4 consecutive spaces.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str       String to convert tabs to spaces
+     * @param  int    $tabLength Number of spaces to replace each tab with
+     * @return string String with tabs switched to spaces
+     */
+    public static function toSpaces($str, $tabLength = 4)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str)->toSpaces($tabLength);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts each occurrence of some consecutive number of spaces, as
+     * defined by $tabLength, to a tab. By default, each 4 consecutive spaces
+     * are converted to a tab.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str       String to convert spaces to tabs
+     * @param  int    $tabLength Number of spaces to replace with a tab
+     * @return string String with spaces switched to tabs
+     */
+    public static function toTabs($str, $tabLength = 4)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str)->toTabs($tabLength);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts all characters in the string to lowercase. An alias for PHP's
+     * mb_strtolower().
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to convert case
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The lowercase string
+     */
+    public static function toLowerCase($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->toLowerCase();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts all characters in the string to uppercase. An alias for PHP's
+     * mb_strtoupper().
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to convert case
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The uppercase string
+     */
+    public static function toUpperCase($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->toUpperCase();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts the string into an URL slug. This includes replacing non-ASCII
+     * characters with their closest ASCII equivalents, removing remaining
+     * non-ASCII and non-alphanumeric characters, and replacing whitespace with
+     * $replacement. The replacement defaults to a single dash, and the string
+     * is also converted to lowercase.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str         Text to transform into an URL slug
+     * @param  string $replacement The string used to replace whitespace
+     * @return string The corresponding URL slug
+     */
+    public static function slugify($str, $replacement = '-')
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str)->slugify($replacement);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the string contains $needle, false otherwise. By default,
+     * the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive by setting
+     * $caseSensitive to false.
+     *
+     * @param  string $haystack      String being checked
+     * @param  string $needle        Substring to look for
+     * @param  bool   $caseSensitive Whether or not to enforce case-sensitivity
+     * @param  string $encoding      The character encoding
+     * @return bool   Whether or not $haystack contains $needle
+     */
+    public static function contains($haystack, $needle, $caseSensitive = true,
+                                    $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($haystack, $encoding)
+            ->contains($needle, $caseSensitive);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Surrounds a string with the given substring.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str       The string to surround
+     * @param  string $substring The substring to add to both sides
+     * @return string The string with the substring prepended and appended
+     */
+    public static function surround($str, $substring)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str)->surround($substring);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Inserts $substring into the string at the $index provided.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str       String to insert into
+     * @param  string $substring String to be inserted
+     * @param  int    $index     The index at which to insert the substring
+     * @param  string $encoding  The character encoding
+     * @return string The resulting string after the insertion
+     */
+    public static function insert($str, $substring, $index, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->insert($substring, $index);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Truncates the string to a given length. If $substring is provided, and
+     * truncating occurs, the string is further truncated so that the substring
+     * may be appended without exceeding the desired length.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str       String to truncate
+     * @param  int    $length    Desired length of the truncated string
+     * @param  string $substring The substring to append if it can fit
+     * @param  string $encoding  The character encoding
+     * @return string The resulting string after truncating
+     */
+    public static function truncate($str, $length, $substring = '',
+                                    $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->truncate($length, $substring);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Truncates the string to a given length, while ensuring that it does not
+     * split words. If $substring is provided, and truncating occurs, the
+     * string is further truncated so that the substring may be appended without
+     * exceeding the desired length.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str       String to truncate
+     * @param  int    $length    Desired length of the truncated string
+     * @param  string $substring The substring to append if it can fit
+     * @param  string $encoding  The character encoding
+     * @return string The resulting string after truncating
+     */
+    public static function safeTruncate($str, $length, $substring = '',
+                                    $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->safeTruncate($length, $substring);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a reversed string. A multibyte version of strrev().
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to reverse
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The reversed string
+     */
+    public static function reverse($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->reverse();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A multibyte str_shuffle() function. It returns a string with its
+     * characters in random order.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to shuffle
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The shuffled string
+     */
+    public static function shuffle($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->shuffle();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the trimmed string. An alias for PHP's trim() function.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str String to trim
+     * @return string Trimmed $str
+     */
+    public static function trim($str)
+    {
+        return trim($str);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the longest common prefix between the string and $otherStr.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      First string for comparison
+     * @param  string $otherStr Second string for comparison
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The longest common prefix
+     */
+    public static function longestCommonPrefix($str, $otherStr, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->longestCommonPrefix($otherStr);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the longest common suffix between the string and $otherStr.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      First string for comparison
+     * @param  string $otherStr Second string for comparison
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The longest common suffix
+     */
+    public static function longestCommonSuffix($str, $otherStr, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->longestCommonSuffix($otherStr);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the longest common substring between the string and $otherStr.
+     * In the case of ties, it returns that which occurs first.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      First string for comparison
+     * @param  string $otherStr Second string for comparison
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The longest common substring
+     */
+    public static function longestCommonSubstring($str, $otherStr,
+                                                  $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->longestCommonSubstring($otherStr);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the length of the string. An alias for PHP's mb_strlen() function.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      The string to get the length of
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return int    The number of characters in $str given the encoding
+     */
+    public static function length($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->length();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the substring beginning at $start with the specified $length.
+     * It differs from the mb_substr() function in that providing a $length of
+     * null will return the rest of the string, rather than an empty string.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      The string to get the length of
+     * @param  int    $start    Position of the first character to use
+     * @param  int    $length   Maximum number of characters used
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The substring of $str
+     */
+    public static function substr($str, $start, $length = null, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->substr($start, $length);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the character at $index, with indexes starting at 0.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      The string from which to get the char
+     * @param  int    $index    Position of the character
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The character at $index
+     */
+    public static function at($str, $index, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->at($index);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the first $n characters of the string.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      The string from which to get the substring
+     * @param  int    $n        Number of chars to retrieve from the start
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The first $n characters
+     */
+    public static function first($str, $n, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->first($n);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the last $n characters of the string.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      The string from which to get the substring
+     * @param  int    $n        Number of chars to retrieve from the end
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return string The last $n characters
+     */
+    public static function last($str, $n, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->last($n);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Ensures that the string begins with $substring. If it doesn't, it's
+     * prepended.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str       The string to modify
+     * @param  string $substring The substring to add if not present
+     * @param  string $encoding  The character encoding
+     * @return string The string prefixed by the $substring
+     */
+    public static function ensureLeft($str, $substring, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->ensureLeft($substring);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Ensures that the string begins with $substring. If it doesn't, it's
+     * appended.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str       The string to modify
+     * @param  string $substring The substring to add if not present
+     * @param  string $encoding  The character encoding
+     * @return string The string suffixed by the $substring
+     */
+    public static function ensureRight($str, $substring, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->ensureRight($substring);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a new string with the prefix $substring removed, if present.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str       String from which to remove the prefix
+     * @param  string $substring The prefix to remove
+     * @param  string $encoding  The character encoding
+     * @return string The string without the prefix $substring
+     */
+    public static function removeLeft($str, $substring, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->removeLeft($substring);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a new string with the suffix $substring removed, if present.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str       String from which to remove the suffix
+     * @param  string $substring The suffix to remove
+     * @param  string $encoding  The character encoding
+     * @return string The string without the suffix $substring
+     */
+    public static function removeRight($str, $substring, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->removeRight($substring);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the string contains only alphabetic chars, false
+     * otherwise.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to check
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return bool   Whether or not $str contains only alphabetic chars
+     */
+    public static function isAlpha($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isAlpha();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the string contains only alphabetic and numeric chars,
+     * false otherwise.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to check
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return bool   Whether or not $str contains only alphanumeric chars
+     */
+    public static function isAlphanumeric($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isAlphanumeric();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the string contains only whitespace chars, false
+     * otherwise.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to check
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return bool   Whether or not $str contains only whitespace characters
+     */
+    public static function isBlank($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isBlank();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the string is JSON, false otherwise.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to check
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return bool   Whether or not $str is JSON
+     */
+    public static function isJson($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isJson();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the string contains only lower case chars, false
+     * otherwise.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to check
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return bool   Whether or not $str contains only lower case characters
+     */
+    public static function isLowerCase($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isLowerCase();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the string is serialized, false otherwise.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to check
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return bool   Whether or not $str is serialized
+     */
+    public static function isSerialized($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isSerialized();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the string contains only upper case chars, false
+     * otherwise.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to check
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return bool   Whether or not $str contains only upper case characters
+     */
+    public static function isUpperCase($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isUpperCase();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the string contains only hexadecimal chars, false
+     * otherwise.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str      String to check
+     * @param  string $encoding The character encoding
+     * @return bool   Whether or not $str contains only hexadecimal characters
+     */
+    public static function isHexadecimal($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isHexadecimal();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the number of occurrences of $substring in the given string.
+     * By default, the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive
+     * by setting $caseSensitive to false.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str           The string to search through
+     * @param  string $substring     The substring to search for
+     * @param  bool   $caseSensitive Whether or not to enforce case-sensitivity
+     * @param  string $encoding      The character encoding
+     * @return int    The number of $substring occurrences
+     */
+    public static function countSubstr($str, $substring, $caseSensitive = true,
+                                       $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->countSubstr($substring, $caseSensitive);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Replaces all occurrences of $search in $str by $replacement.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str         The haystack to search through
+     * @param  string $search      The needle to search for
+     * @param  string $replacement The string to replace with
+     * @param  string $encoding    The character encoding
+     * @return string The resulting string after the replacements
+     */
+    public static function replace($str, $search, $replacement, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->replace($search,$replacement);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Replaces all occurrences of $pattern in $str by $replacement. An alias
+     * for mb_ereg_replace(). Note that the 'i' option with multibyte patterns
+     * in mb_ereg_replace() requires PHP 5.4+. This is due to a lack of support
+     * in the bundled version of Oniguruma in PHP 5.3.
+     *
+     * @param  string $str         The haystack to search through
+     * @param  string $pattern     The regular expression pattern
+     * @param  string $replacement The string to replace with
+     * @param  string $options     Matching conditions to be used
+     * @param  string $encoding    The character encoding
+     * @return string The resulting string after the replacements
+     */
+    public static function regexReplace($str, $pattern, $replacement,
+                                        $options = 'msr', $encoding = null)
+    {
+        return (string) Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
+            ->regexReplace($pattern, $replacement, $options, $encoding);
+    }
+}
--- a/src/Stringy/Stringy.php
+++ b/src/Stringy/Stringy.php
--- a/src/Stringy/StaticStringy.php
+++ b/src/Stringy/StaticStringy.php
@@ -1,767 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-namespace Stringy;
-
-class StaticStringy
-{
-    /**
-     * Converts the first character of the supplied string to upper case.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to modify
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  String with the first character being upper case
-     */
-    public static function upperCaseFirst($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->upperCaseFirst()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Converts the first character of the supplied string to lower case.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to modify
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  String with the first character being lower case
-     */
-    public static function lowerCaseFirst($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->lowerCaseFirst()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a camelCase version of the supplied string. Trims surrounding
-     * spaces, capitalizes letters following digits, spaces, dashes and
-     * underscores, and removes spaces, dashes, underscores.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to convert to camelCase
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  String in camelCase
-     */
-    public static function camelize($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->camelize()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns an UpperCamelCase version of the supplied string. It trims
-     * surrounding spaces, capitalizes letters following digits, spaces, dashes
-     * and underscores, and removes spaces, dashes, underscores.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to convert to UpperCamelCase
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  String in UpperCamelCase
-     */
-    public static function upperCamelize($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->upperCamelize()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a lowercase and trimmed string separated by dashes. Dashes are
-     * inserted before uppercase characters (with the exception of the first
-     * character of the string), and in place of spaces as well as underscores.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to convert
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  Dasherized string
-     */
-    public static function dasherize($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->dasherize()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a lowercase and trimmed string separated by underscores.
-     * Underscores are inserted before uppercase characters (with the exception
-     * of the first character of the string), and in place of spaces as well as
-     * dashes.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to convert
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  Underscored string
-     */
-    public static function underscored($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return $result = Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->underscored()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a case swapped version of the string.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to swap case
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  String with each character's case swapped
-     */
-    public static function swapCase($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return $result = Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->swapCase()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a trimmed string with the first letter of each word capitalized.
-     * Ignores the case of other letters, allowing for the use of acronyms.
-     * Also accepts an array, $ignore, allowing you to list words not to be
-     * capitalized.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to titleize
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @param   array   $ignore    An array of words not to capitalize
-     * @return  string  Titleized string
-     */
-    public static function titleize($str, $ignore = null, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return $result = Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->titleize($ignore)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Capitalizes the first word of the string, replaces underscores with
-     * spaces, and strips '_id'.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to humanize
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  A humanized string
-     */
-    public static function humanize($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return $result = Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->humanize()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a string with smart quotes, ellipsis characters, and dashes from
-     * Windows-1252 (commonly used in Word documents) replaced by their ASCII
-     * equivalents.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to remove special chars
-     * @return  string  String with those characters removed
-     */
-    public static function tidy($str)
-    {
-        return $result = Stringy::create($str)->tidy()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Trims the string and replaces consecutive whitespace characters with a
-     * single space. This includes tabs and newline characters, as well as
-     * multibyte whitespace such as the thin space and ideographic space.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       The string to cleanup whitespace
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The trimmed string with condensed whitespace
-     */
-    public static function collapseWhitespace($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return $result = Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->collapseWhitespace()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns an ASCII version of the string. A set of non-ASCII characters are
-     * replaced with their closest ASCII counterparts, and the rest are removed.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str  A string with non-ASCII characters
-     * @return  string  A string containing only ASCII characters
-     */
-    public static function toAscii($str)
-    {
-        return $result = Stringy::create($str)->toAscii()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Pads the string to a given length with $padStr. If length is less than
-     * or equal to the length of the string, no padding takes places. The default
-     * string used for padding is a space, and the default type (one of 'left',
-     * 'right', 'both') is 'right'. Throws an InvalidArgumentException if
-     * $padType isn't one of those 3 values.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to pad
-     * @param   int     $length    Desired string length after padding
-     * @param   string  $padStr    String used to pad, defaults to space
-     * @param   string  $padType   One of 'left', 'right', 'both'
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The padded string
-     * @throws  InvalidArgumentException If $padType isn't one of 'right',
-     *          'left' or 'both'
-     */
-    public static function pad($str, $length, $padStr = ' ', $padType = 'right',
-                               $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return $result = Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
-                                ->pad($length, $padStr, $padType)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a new string of a given length such that the beginning of the
-     * string is padded. Alias for pad() with a $padType of 'left'.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to pad
-     * @param   int     $length    Desired string length after padding
-     * @param   string  $padStr    String used to pad, defaults to space
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The padded string
-     */
-    public static function padLeft($str, $length, $padStr = ' ', $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->padLeft($length, $padStr)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a new string of a given length such that the end of the string is
-     * padded. Alias for pad() with a $padType of 'right'.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to pad
-     * @param   int     $length    Desired string length after padding
-     * @param   string  $padStr    String used to pad, defaults to space
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The padded string
-     */
-    public static function padRight($str, $length, $padStr = ' ', $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->padRight($length, $padStr)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a new string of a given length such that both sides of the string
-     * string are padded. Alias for pad() with a $padType of 'both'.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to pad
-     * @param   int     $length    Desired string length after padding
-     * @param   string  $padStr    String used to pad, defaults to space
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The padded string
-     */
-    public static function padBoth($str, $length, $padStr = ' ', $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->padBoth($length, $padStr)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns true if the string begins with $substring, false otherwise.
-     * By default, the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive
-     * by setting $caseSensitive to false.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str            String to check the start of
-     * @param   string  $substring      The substring to look for
-     * @param   bool    $caseSensitive  Whether or not to enforce case-sensitivity
-     * @param   string  $encoding       The character encoding
-     * @return  bool    Whether or not $str starts with $substring
-     */
-    public static function startsWith($str, $substring, $caseSensitive = true,
-                                      $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
-                      ->startsWith($substring, $caseSensitive);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns true if the string ends with $substring, false otherwise. By
-     * default, the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive by
-     * setting $caseSensitive to false.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str            String to check the end of
-     * @param   string  $substring      The substring to look for
-     * @param   bool    $caseSensitive  Whether or not to enforce case-sensitivity
-     * @param   string  $encoding       The character encoding
-     * @return  bool    Whether or not $str ends with $substring
-     */
-    public static function endsWith($str, $substring, $caseSensitive = true,
-                                    $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
-                      ->endsWith($substring, $caseSensitive);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Converts each tab in the string to some number of spaces, as defined by
-     * $tabLength. By default, each tab is converted to 4 consecutive spaces.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str        String to convert tabs to spaces
-     * @param   int     $tabLength  Number of spaces to replace each tab with
-     * @return  string  String with tabs switched to spaces
-     */
-    public static function toSpaces($str, $tabLength = 4)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str)->toSpaces($tabLength)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Converts each occurrence of some consecutive number of spaces, as defined
-     * by $tabLength, to a tab. By default, each 4 consecutive spaces are
-     * converted to a tab.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str        String to convert spaces to tabs
-     * @param   int     $tabLength  Number of spaces to replace with a tab
-     * @return  string  String with spaces switched to tabs
-     */
-    public static function toTabs($str, $tabLength = 4)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str)->toTabs($tabLength)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Converts all characters in the string to lowercase. An alias for PHP's
-     * mb_strtolower().
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to convert case
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The lowercase string
-     */
-    public static function toLowerCase($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->toLowerCase()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Converts all characters in the string to uppercase. An alias for PHP's
-     * mb_strtoupper().
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to convert case
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The uppercase string
-     */
-    public static function toUpperCase($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->toUpperCase()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Converts the string into an URL slug. This includes replacing non-ASCII
-     * characters with their closest ASCII equivalents, removing non-alphanumeric
-     * and non-ASCII characters, and replacing whitespace with dashes. The string
-     * is also converted to lowercase.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str  Text to transform into an URL slug
-     * @return  string  The corresponding URL slug
-     */
-    public static function slugify($str)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str)->slugify()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns true if the string contains $needle, false otherwise. By default,
-     * the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive by setting
-     * $caseSensitive to false.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $haystack       String being checked
-     * @param   string  $needle         Substring to look for
-     * @param   bool    $caseSensitive  Whether or not to enforce case-sensitivity
-     * @param   string  $encoding       The character encoding
-     * @return  bool    Whether or not $haystack contains $needle
-     */
-    public static function contains($haystack, $needle, $caseSensitive = true,
-                                    $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($haystack, $encoding)->contains($needle, $caseSensitive);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Surrounds a string with the given substring.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str        The string to surround
-     * @param   string  $substring  The substring to add to both sides
-     * @return  string  The string with the substring prepended and appended
-     */
-    public static function surround($str, $substring)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str)->surround($substring)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Inserts $substring into the string at the $index provided.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str        String to insert into
-     * @param   string  $substring  String to be inserted
-     * @param   int     $index      The index at which to insert the substring
-     * @param   string  $encoding   The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The resulting string after the insertion
-     */
-    public static function insert($str, $substring, $index, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->insert($substring, $index)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Truncates the string to a given length. If $substring is provided, and
-     * truncating occurs, the string is further truncated so that the substring
-     * may be appended without exceeding the desired length.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str        String to truncate
-     * @param   int     $length     Desired length of the truncated string
-     * @param   string  $substring  The substring to append if it can fit
-     * @param   string  $encoding   The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The resulting string after truncating
-     */
-    public static function truncate($str, $length, $substring = '',
-                                    $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
-                      ->truncate($length, $substring)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Truncates the string to a given length, while ensuring that it does not
-     * chop words. If $substring is provided, and truncating occurs, the string
-     * is further truncated so that the substring may be appended without
-     * exceeding the desired length.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str        String to truncate
-     * @param   int     $length     Desired length of the truncated string
-     * @param   string  $substring  The substring to append if it can fit
-     * @param   string  $encoding   The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The resulting string after truncating
-     */
-    public static function safeTruncate($str, $length, $substring = '',
-                                    $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
-                      ->safeTruncate($length, $substring)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a reversed string. A multibyte version of strrev().
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to reverse
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The reversed string
-     */
-    public static function reverse($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->reverse()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * A multibyte str_shuffle() function. It returns a string with its
-     * characters in random order.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       String to shuffle
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The shuffled string
-     */
-    public static function shuffle($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->shuffle()->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the trimmed string. An alias for PHP's trim() function.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str  String to trim
-     * @return  string  Trimmed $str
-     */
-    public static function trim($str)
-    {
-        return trim($str);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the longest common prefix between the string and $otherStr.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       First string for comparison
-     * @param   string  $otherStr  Second string for comparison
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The longest common prefix
-     */
-    public static function longestCommonPrefix($str, $otherStr, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
-                      ->longestCommonPrefix($otherStr)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the longest common suffix between the string and $otherStr.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       First string for comparison
-     * @param   string  $otherStr  Second string for comparison
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The longest common suffix
-     */
-    public static function longestCommonSuffix($str, $otherStr, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
-                      ->longestCommonSuffix($otherStr)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the longest common substring between the string and $otherStr.
-     * In the case of ties, it returns that which occurs first.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       First string for comparison
-     * @param   string  $otherStr  Second string for comparison
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The longest common substring
-     */
-    public static function longestCommonSubstring($str, $otherStr,
-                                                  $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)
-                      ->longestCommonSubstring($otherStr)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the length of the string. An alias for PHP's mb_strlen() function.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       The string to get the length of
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  int     The number of characters in $str given the encoding
-     */
-    public static function length($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->length();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the substring beginning at $start with the specified $length.
-     * It differs from the mb_substr() function in that providing a $length of
-     * null will return the rest of the string, rather than an empty string.
-     *
-     * @param   string  $str       The string to get the length of
-     * @param   int     $start     Position of the first character to use
-     * @param   int     $length    Maximum number of characters used
-     * @param   string  $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string  The substring of $str
-     */
-    public static function substr($str, $start, $length = null, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->substr($start, $length)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the character of the string at $index, with indexes starting at 0.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str       The string from which to get the char
-     * @param   int      $index     Position of the character
-     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string   The character at $index
-     */
-    public static function at($str, $index, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->at($index)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the first $n characters of the string.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str       The string from which to get the substring
-     * @param   int      $n         Number of chars to retrieve from the start
-     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string   The first $n characters
-     */
-    public static function first($str, $n, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->first($n)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the last $n characters of the string.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str       The string from which to get the substring
-     * @param   int      $n         Number of chars to retrieve from the end
-     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  string   The last $n characters
-     */
-    public static function last($str, $n, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->last($n)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Ensures that the string begins with $substring. If it doesn't, it's
-     * prepended.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str        The string to modify
-     * @param   string   $substring  The substring to add if not present
-     * @param   string   $encoding   The character encoding
-     * @return  string   The string prefixed by the $substring
-     */
-    public static function ensureLeft($str, $substring, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->ensureLeft($substring)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Ensures that the string begins with $substring. If it doesn't, it's
-     * appended.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str        The string to modify
-     * @param   string   $substring  The substring to add if not present
-     * @param   string   $encoding   The character encoding
-     * @return  string   The string suffixed by the $substring
-     */
-    public static function ensureRight($str, $substring, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->ensureRight($substring)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a new string with the prefix $substring removed, if it was present.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str        String from which to remove the prefix
-     * @param   string   $substring  The prefix to remove
-     * @param   string   $encoding   The character encoding
-     * @return  string   The string without the prefix $substring
-     */
-    public static function removeLeft($str, $substring, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->removeLeft($substring)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a new string with the suffix $substring removed, if it was present.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str        String from which to remove the suffix
-     * @param   string   $substring  The suffix to remove
-     * @param   string   $encoding   The character encoding
-     * @return  string   The string without the suffix $substring
-     */
-    public static function removeRight($str, $substring, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->removeRight($substring)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns true if the string contains only alphabetic chars, false otherwise.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str       String to check
-     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  bool     Whether or not $str contains only alphabetic chars
-     */
-    public static function isAlpha($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isAlpha();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns true if the string contains only alphabetic and numeric chars,
-     * false otherwise.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str       String to check
-     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  bool     Whether or not $str contains only alphanumeric chars
-     */
-    public static function isAlphanumeric($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isAlphanumeric();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns true if the string contains only whitespace chars, false otherwise.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str       String to check
-     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  bool     Whether or not $str contains only whitespace characters
-     */
-    public static function isBlank($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isBlank();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns true if the string is JSON, false otherwise.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str       String to check
-     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  bool     Whether or not $str is JSON
-     */
-    public static function isJson($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isJson();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns true if the string contains only lower case chars, false otherwise.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str       String to check
-     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  bool     Whether or not $str contains only lower case characters
-     */
-    public static function isLowerCase($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isLowerCase();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns true if the string is serialized, false otherwise.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str       String to check
-     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  bool     Whether or not $str is serialized
-     */
-    public static function isSerialized($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isSerialized();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns true if the string contains only upper case chars, false otherwise.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str       String to check
-     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  bool     Whether or not $str contains only upper case characters
-     */
-    public static function isUpperCase($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isUpperCase();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns true if the string contains only hexadecimal chars, false otherwise.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str       String to check
-     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
-     * @return  bool     Whether or not $str contains only hexadecimal characters
-     */
-    public static function isHexadecimal($str, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->isHexadecimal();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the number of occurrences of $substring in the given string.
-     * By default, the comparison is case-sensitive, but can be made insensitive
-     * by setting $caseSensitive to false.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str            The string to search through
-     * @param   string   $substring      The substring to search for
-     * @param   bool     $caseSensitive  Whether or not to enforce case-sensitivity
-     * @param   string   $encoding       The character encoding
-     * @return  int      The number of $substring occurrences
-     */
-    public static function count($str, $substring, $caseSensitive = true,
-                                 $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->count($substring, $caseSensitive);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Replaces all occurrences of $search in $str by $replacement.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str           The haystack to search through
-     * @param   string   $search        The needle to search for
-     * @param   string   $replacement   The string to replace with
-     * @param   string   $encoding      The character encoding
-     * @return  string   The resulting string after the replacements
-     */
-    public static function replace($str, $search, $replacement, $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->replace($search, $replacement)->str;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Replaces all occurrences of $pattern in $str by $replacement. An alias
-     * for mb_ereg_replace(). Note that the 'i' option with multibyte patterns
-     * in mb_ereg_replace() requires PHP 5.4+. This is due to a lack of support
-     * in the bundled version of Oniguruma in PHP 5.3.
-     *
-     * @param   string   $str          The haystack to search through
-     * @param   string   $pattern      The regular expression pattern
-     * @param   string   $replacement  The string to replace with
-     * @param   string   $options      Matching conditions to be used
-     * @param   string   $encoding     The character encoding
-     * @return  string   The resulting string after the replacements
-     */
-    public static function regexReplace($str, $pattern, $replacement,
-                                        $options = 'msr', $encoding = null)
-    {
-        return Stringy::create($str, $encoding)->regexReplace($pattern,
-            $replacement, $options, $encoding)->str;
-    }
-}
--- a/tests/Stringy/CommonTest.php
+++ b/tests/Stringy/CommonTest.php
@@ -2,35 +2,40 @@

 abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
 {
-    public function stringsForUpperCaseFirst()
+    public function charsProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
+            array(array(), ''),
+            array(array('T', 'e', 's', 't'), 'Test'),
+            array(array('F', 'ò', 'ô', ' ', 'B', 'à', 'ř'), 'Fòô Bàř', 'UTF-8')
+        );
+    }
+
+    public function upperCaseFirstProvider()
+    {
+        return array(
            array('Test', 'Test'),
            array('Test', 'test'),
            array('1a', '1a'),
            array('Σ test', 'σ test', 'UTF-8'),
            array(' σ test', ' σ test', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForLowerCaseFirst()
+    public function lowerCaseFirstProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('test', 'Test'),
            array('test', 'test'),
            array('1a', '1a'),
            array('σ test', 'Σ test', 'UTF-8'),
            array(' Σ test', ' Σ test', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForCamelize()
+    public function camelizeProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('camelCase', 'CamelCase'),
            array('camelCase', 'Camel-Case'),
            array('camelCase', 'camel case'),
@@ -45,13 +50,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('στανιλCase', 'Στανιλ case', 'UTF-8'),
            array('σamelCase', 'σamel  Case', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForUpperCamelize()
+    public function upperCamelizeProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('CamelCase', 'camelCase'),
            array('CamelCase', 'Camel-Case'),
            array('CamelCase', 'camel case'),
@@ -66,13 +69,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('ΣτανιλCase', 'στανιλ case', 'UTF-8'),
            array('ΣamelCase', 'Σamel  Case', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForDasherize()
+    public function dasherizeProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('test-case', 'testCase'),
            array('test-case', 'Test-Case'),
            array('test-case', 'test case'),
@@ -89,13 +90,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('στανιλ-case', 'Στανιλ case', 'UTF-8'),
            array('σash-case', 'Σash  Case', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForUnderscored()
+    public function underscoredProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('test_case', 'testCase'),
            array('test_case', 'Test-Case'),
            array('test_case', 'test case'),
@@ -112,63 +111,53 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('στανιλ_case', 'Στανιλ case', 'UTF-8'),
            array('σash_case', 'Σash  Case', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForSwapCase()
+    public function swapCaseProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('TESTcASE', 'testCase'),
            array('tEST-cASE', 'Test-Case'),
            array(' - σASH  cASE', ' - Σash  Case', 'UTF-8'),
            array('νΤΑΝΙΛ', 'Ντανιλ', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForTitleize()
+    public function titleizeProvider()
    {
        $ignore = array('at', 'by', 'for', 'in', 'of', 'on', 'out', 'to', 'the');

-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('Testing The Method', 'testing the method'),
            array('Testing the Method', 'testing the method', $ignore, 'UTF-8'),
            array('I Like to Watch DVDs at Home', 'i like to watch DVDs at home',
                $ignore, 'UTF-8'),
            array('Θα Ήθελα Να Φύγει', '  Θα ήθελα να φύγει  ', null, 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForHumanize()
+    public function humanizeProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('Author', 'author_id'),
            array('Test user', ' _test_user_'),
            array('Συγγραφέας', ' συγγραφέας_id ', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForTidy()
+    public function tidyProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('"I see..."', '“I see…”'),
            array("'This too'", "‘This too’"),
            array('test-dash', 'test—dash'),
            array('Ο συγγραφέας είπε...', 'Ο συγγραφέας είπε…')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForCollapseWhitespace()
+    public function collapseWhitespaceProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo bar', '  foo   bar  '),
            array('test string', 'test string'),
            array('Ο συγγραφέας', '   Ο     συγγραφέας  '),
@@ -178,28 +167,25 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('', ' '),
            array('', ''),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForToAscii()
+    public function toAsciiProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo bar', 'fòô bàř'),
            array(' TEST ', ' ŤÉŚŢ '),
-            array('φ = z = 3', 'φ = ź = 3'),
+            array(' = z = 3', 'φ = ź = 3'),
            array('perevirka', 'перевірка'),
            array('lysaya gora', 'лысая гора'),
-            array('shchuka', 'щука')
+            array('shchuka', 'щука'),
+            array('', '漢字')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForPad()
+    public function padProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
-            // $length <= $str
+        return array(
+            // length <= str
            array('foo bar', 'foo bar', -1),
            array('foo bar', 'foo bar', 7),
            array('fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 7, ' ', 'right', 'UTF-8'),
@@ -207,75 +193,66 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            // right
            array('foo bar  ', 'foo bar', 9),
            array('foo bar_*', 'foo bar', 9, '_*', 'right'),
-            array('foo bar_*_', 'foo bar', 10, '_*', 'right'),
-            array('fòô bàř  ', 'fòô bàř', 9, ' ', 'right', 'UTF-8'),
-            array('fòô bàř¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 9, '¬ø', 'right', 'UTF-8'),
            array('fòô bàř¬ø¬', 'fòô bàř', 10, '¬ø', 'right', 'UTF-8'),
-            array('fòô bàř¬ø¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 11, '¬ø', 'right', 'UTF-8'),

            // left
            array('  foo bar', 'foo bar', 9, ' ', 'left'),
            array('_*foo bar', 'foo bar', 9, '_*', 'left'),
-            array('_*_foo bar', 'foo bar', 10, '_*', 'left'),
-            array('  fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 9, ' ', 'left', 'UTF-8'),
-            array('¬øfòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 9, '¬ø', 'left', 'UTF-8'),
            array('¬ø¬fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 10, '¬ø', 'left', 'UTF-8'),
-            array('¬ø¬øfòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 11, '¬ø', 'left', 'UTF-8'),

            // both
            array('foo bar ', 'foo bar', 8, ' ', 'both'),
-            array(' foo bar ', 'foo bar', 9, ' ', 'both'),
-            array('fòô bàř ', 'fòô bàř', 8, ' ', 'both', 'UTF-8'),
-            array(' fòô bàř ', 'fòô bàř', 9, ' ', 'both', 'UTF-8'),
-            array('fòô bàř¬', 'fòô bàř', 8, '¬ø', 'both', 'UTF-8'),
-            array('¬fòô bàř¬', 'fòô bàř', 9, '¬ø', 'both', 'UTF-8'),
            array('¬fòô bàř¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 10, '¬ø', 'both', 'UTF-8'),
-            array('¬øfòô bàř¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 11, '¬ø', 'both', 'UTF-8'),
-            array('¬fòô bàř¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 10, '¬øÿ', 'both', 'UTF-8'),
-            array('¬øfòô bàř¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 11, '¬øÿ', 'both', 'UTF-8'),
            array('¬øfòô bàř¬øÿ', 'fòô bàř', 12, '¬øÿ', 'both', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForPadLeft()
+    public function padLeftProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('  foo bar', 'foo bar', 9),
+            array('_*foo bar', 'foo bar', 9, '_*'),
            array('_*_foo bar', 'foo bar', 10, '_*'),
+            array('  fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 9, ' ', 'UTF-8'),
+            array('¬øfòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 9, '¬ø', 'UTF-8'),
+            array('¬ø¬fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 10, '¬ø', 'UTF-8'),
            array('¬ø¬øfòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 11, '¬ø', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForPadRight()
+    public function padRightProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo bar  ', 'foo bar', 9),
+            array('foo bar_*', 'foo bar', 9, '_*'),
            array('foo bar_*_', 'foo bar', 10, '_*'),
+            array('fòô bàř  ', 'fòô bàř', 9, ' ', 'UTF-8'),
+            array('fòô bàř¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 9, '¬ø', 'UTF-8'),
+            array('fòô bàř¬ø¬', 'fòô bàř', 10, '¬ø', 'UTF-8'),
            array('fòô bàř¬ø¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 11, '¬ø', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForPadBoth()
+    public function padBothProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo bar ', 'foo bar', 8),
            array(' foo bar ', 'foo bar', 9, ' '),
+            array('fòô bàř ', 'fòô bàř', 8, ' ', 'UTF-8'),
+            array(' fòô bàř ', 'fòô bàř', 9, ' ', 'UTF-8'),
+            array('fòô bàř¬', 'fòô bàř', 8, '¬ø', 'UTF-8'),
+            array('¬fòô bàř¬', 'fòô bàř', 9, '¬ø', 'UTF-8'),
+            array('¬fòô bàř¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 10, '¬ø', 'UTF-8'),
+            array('¬øfòô bàř¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 11, '¬ø', 'UTF-8'),
            array('¬fòô bàř¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 10, '¬øÿ', 'UTF-8'),
+            array('¬øfòô bàř¬ø', 'fòô bàř', 11, '¬øÿ', 'UTF-8'),
            array('¬øfòô bàř¬øÿ', 'fòô bàř', 12, '¬øÿ', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForStartsWith()
+    public function startsWithProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(true, 'foo bars', 'foo bar'),
            array(true, 'FOO bars', 'foo bar', false),
            array(true, 'FOO bars', 'foo BAR', false),
@@ -288,13 +265,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(false, 'FÒÔ bàřs', 'fòô bàř', true, 'UTF-8'),
            array(false, 'fòô bàřs', 'fòô BÀŘ', true, 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForEndsWith()
+    public function endsWithProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(true, 'foo bars', 'o bars'),
            array(true, 'FOO bars', 'o bars', false),
            array(true, 'FOO bars', 'o BARs', false),
@@ -307,13 +282,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(false, 'FÒÔ bàřs', 'fòô bàřs', true, 'UTF-8'),
            array(false, 'fòô bàřs', 'fòô BÀŘS', true, 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForToSpaces()
+    public function toSpacesProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('    foo    bar    ', '	foo	bar	'),
            array('     foo     bar     ', '	foo	bar	', 5),
            array('    foo  bar  ', '		foo	bar	', 2),
@@ -321,68 +294,66 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array("    foo\n    bar", "	foo\n	bar"),
            array("    fòô\n    bàř", "	fòô\n	bàř")
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForToTabs()
+    public function toTabsProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('	foo	bar	', '    foo    bar    '),
            array('	foo	bar	', '     foo     bar     ', 5),
            array('		foo	bar	', '    foo  bar  ', 2),
            array("	foo\n	bar", "    foo\n    bar"),
            array("	fòô\n	bàř", "    fòô\n    bàř")
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForToLowerCase()
+    public function toLowerCaseProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo bar', 'FOO BAR'),
            array(' foo_bar ', ' FOO_bar '),
            array('fòô bàř', 'FÒÔ BÀŘ', 'UTF-8'),
            array(' fòô_bàř ', ' FÒÔ_bàř ', 'UTF-8'),
            array('αυτοκίνητο', 'ΑΥΤΟΚΊΝΗΤΟ', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForToUpperCase()
+    public function toUpperCaseProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('FOO BAR', 'foo bar'),
            array(' FOO_BAR ', ' FOO_bar '),
            array('FÒÔ BÀŘ', 'fòô bàř', 'UTF-8'),
            array(' FÒÔ_BÀŘ ', ' FÒÔ_bàř ', 'UTF-8'),
            array('ΑΥΤΟΚΊΝΗΤΟ', 'αυτοκίνητο', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForSlugify()
+    public function slugifyProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo-bar', ' foo  bar '),
+            array('foo-bar', 'foo -.-"-...bar'),
+            array('another-foo-bar', 'another..& foo -.-"-...bar'),
            array('foo-dbar', " Foo d'Bar "),
            array('a-string-with-dashes', 'A string-with-dashes'),
            array('using-strings-like-foo-bar', 'Using strings like fòô bàř'),
            array('unrecognized-chars-like', 'unrecognized chars like συγγρ'),
            array('numbers-1234', 'numbers 1234'),
            array('perevirka-ryadka', 'перевірка рядка'),
-            array('bukvar-s-bukvoy-y', 'букварь с буквой ы')
+            array('bukvar-s-bukvoy-y', 'букварь с буквой ы'),
+            array('podekhal-k-podezdu-moego-doma', 'подъехал к подъезду моего дома'),
+            array('foo:bar:baz', 'Foo bar baz', ':'),
+            array('a_string_with_underscores', 'A_string with_underscores', '_'),
+            array('a_string_with_dashes', 'A string-with-dashes', '_'),
+            array('a\string\with\dashes', 'A string-with-dashes', '\\'),
+            array('an_odd_string', '--   An odd__   string-_', '_')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForContains()
+    public function containsProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(true, 'This string contains foo bar', 'foo bar'),
            array(true, '12398!@(*%!@# @!%#*&^%',  ' @!%#*&^%'),
            array(true, 'Ο συγγραφέας είπε', 'συγγραφέας', 'UTF-8'),
@@ -405,26 +376,22 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(false, 'Ο συγγραφέας είπε', '  συγγραφέας ', false, 'UTF-8'),
            array(false, 'å´¥©¨ˆßå˚ ∆∂˙©å∑¥øœ¬', ' ßÅ˚', false, 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForSurround()
+    public function surroundProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('__foobar__', 'foobar', '__'),
            array('test', 'test', ''),
            array('**', '', '*'),
            array('¬fòô bàř¬', 'fòô bàř', '¬'),
            array('ßå∆˚ test ßå∆˚', ' test ', 'ßå∆˚')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForInsert()
+    public function insertProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo bar', 'oo bar', 'f', 0),
            array('foo bar', 'f bar', 'oo', 1),
            array('f bar', 'f bar', 'oo', 20),
@@ -433,13 +400,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('fòô bàř', 'f bàř', 'òô', 1, 'UTF-8'),
            array('fòô bàř', 'fòô bà', 'ř', 6, 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForTruncate()
+    public function truncateProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('Test foo bar', 'Test foo bar', 12),
            array('Test foo ba', 'Test foo bar', 11),
            array('Test foo', 'Test foo bar', 8),
@@ -463,13 +428,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('Teϰϰ', 'Test fòô bàř', 4, 'ϰϰ', 'UTF-8'),
            array('What are your pl...', 'What are your plans today?', 19, '...')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForSafeTruncate()
+    public function safeTruncateProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('Test foo bar', 'Test foo bar', 12),
            array('Test foo', 'Test foo bar', 11),
            array('Test foo', 'Test foo bar', 8),
@@ -493,37 +456,31 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('ϰϰ', 'Test fòô bàř', 4, 'ϰϰ', 'UTF-8'),
            array('What are your plans...', 'What are your plans today?', 22, '...')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForReverse()
+    public function reverseProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('', ''),
            array('raboof', 'foobar'),
            array('řàbôòf', 'fòôbàř', 'UTF-8'),
            array('řàb ôòf', 'fòô bàř', 'UTF-8'),
            array('∂∆ ˚åß', 'ßå˚ ∆∂', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForShuffle()
+    public function shuffleProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo bar'),
            array('∂∆ ˚åß', 'UTF-8'),
            array('å´¥©¨ˆßå˚ ∆∂˙©å∑¥øœ¬', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForTrim()
+    public function trimProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo   bar', '  foo   bar  '),
            array('foo bar', ' foo bar'),
            array('foo bar', 'foo bar '),
@@ -533,13 +490,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř '),
            array('fòô bàř', "\n\t fòô bàř \n\t")
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForLongestCommonPrefix()
+    public function longestCommonPrefixProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo', 'foobar', 'foo bar'),
            array('foo bar', 'foo bar', 'foo bar'),
            array('f', 'foo bar', 'far boo'),
@@ -551,13 +506,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('', 'toy car', 'fòô bar', 'UTF-8'),
            array('', 'fòô bar', '', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForLongestCommonSuffix()
+    public function longestCommonSuffixProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('bar', 'foobar', 'foo bar'),
            array('foo bar', 'foo bar', 'foo bar'),
            array('ar', 'foo bar', 'boo far'),
@@ -569,13 +522,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('', 'toy car', 'fòô bàř', 'UTF-8'),
            array('', 'fòô bàř', '', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForLongestCommonSubstring()
+    public function longestCommonSubstringProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo', 'foobar', 'foo bar'),
            array('foo bar', 'foo bar', 'foo bar'),
            array('oo ', 'foo bar', 'boo far'),
@@ -587,25 +538,21 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(' ', 'toy car', 'fòô bàř', 'UTF-8'),
            array('', 'fòô bàř', '', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForLength()
+    public function lengthProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(11, '  foo bar  '),
            array(1, 'f'),
            array(0, ''),
            array(7, 'fòô bàř', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForSubstr()
+    public function substrProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo bar', 'foo bar', 0),
            array('bar', 'foo bar', 4),
            array('bar', 'foo bar', 4, null),
@@ -616,13 +563,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('ô b', 'fòô bàř', 2, 3, 'UTF-8'),
            array('', 'fòô bàř', 4, 0, 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForAt()
+    public function atProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('f', 'foo bar', 0),
            array('o', 'foo bar', 1),
            array('r', 'foo bar', 6),
@@ -632,13 +577,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('ř', 'fòô bàř', 6, 'UTF-8'),
            array('', 'fòô bàř', 7, 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForFirst()
+    public function firstProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('', 'foo bar', -5),
            array('', 'foo bar', 0),
            array('f', 'foo bar', 1),
@@ -652,13 +595,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 7, 'UTF-8'),
            array('fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 8, 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForLast()
+    public function lastProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('', 'foo bar', -5),
            array('', 'foo bar', 0),
            array('r', 'foo bar', 1),
@@ -672,13 +613,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 7, 'UTF-8'),
            array('fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 8, 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForEnsureLeft()
+    public function ensureLeftProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foobar', 'foobar', 'f'),
            array('foobar', 'foobar', 'foo'),
            array('foo/foobar', 'foobar', 'foo/'),
@@ -690,13 +629,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('http://fòôbàř', 'fòôbàř', 'http://', 'UTF-8'),
            array('http://fòôbàř', 'http://fòôbàř', 'http://', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForEnsureRight()
+    public function ensureRightProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foobar', 'foobar', 'r'),
            array('foobar', 'foobar', 'bar'),
            array('foobar/bar', 'foobar', '/bar'),
@@ -708,13 +645,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('fòôbàř.com/', 'fòôbàř', '.com/', 'UTF-8'),
            array('fòôbàř.com/', 'fòôbàř.com/', '.com/', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForRemoveLeft()
+    public function removeLeftProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo bar', 'foo bar', ''),
            array('oo bar', 'foo bar', 'f'),
            array('bar', 'foo bar', 'foo '),
@@ -726,13 +661,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 'òô', 'UTF-8'),
            array('fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 'òô bàř', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForRemoveRight()
+    public function removeRightProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('foo bar', 'foo bar', ''),
            array('foo ba', 'foo bar', 'r'),
            array('foo', 'foo bar', ' bar'),
@@ -744,13 +677,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 'bà', 'UTF-8'),
            array('fòô bàř', 'fòô bàř', 'fòô bà', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForIsAlpha()
+    public function isAlphaProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(true, ''),
            array(true, 'foobar'),
            array(false, 'foo bar'),
@@ -762,13 +693,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(false, 'ҠѨњ¨ˆфгШ', 'UTF-8'),
            array(true, '丹尼爾', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForIsAlphanumeric()
+    public function isAlphanumericProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(true, ''),
            array(true, 'foobar1'),
            array(false, 'foo bar'),
@@ -783,13 +712,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(true, 'دانيال1', 'UTF-8'),
            array(false, 'دانيال1 ', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForIsBlank()
+    public function isBlankProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(true, ''),
            array(true, ' '),
            array(true, "\n\t "),
@@ -803,21 +730,19 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(false, '　z', 'UTF-8'),
            array(false, '　1', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForIsJson()
+    public function isJsonProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
-            array(false, ''),
-            array(false, '123'),
+        return array(
+            array(true, ''),
+            array(true, '123'),
            array(true, '{"foo": "bar"}'),
            array(false, '{"foo":"bar",}'),
            array(false, '{"foo"}'),
            array(true, '["foo"]'),
            array(false, '{"foo": "bar"]'),
-            array(false, '123', 'UTF-8'),
+            array(true, '123', 'UTF-8'),
            array(true, '{"fòô": "bàř"}', 'UTF-8'),
            array(false, '{"fòô":"bàř",}', 'UTF-8'),
            array(false, '{"fòô"}', 'UTF-8'),
@@ -825,13 +750,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(true, '["fòô"]', 'UTF-8'),
            array(false, '{"fòô": "bàř"]', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForIsLowerCase()
+    public function isLowerCaseProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(true, ''),
            array(true, 'foobar'),
            array(false, 'foo bar'),
@@ -841,13 +764,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(false, 'fòô bàř', 'UTF-8'),
            array(false, 'fòôbÀŘ', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForIsSerialized()
+    public function isSerializedProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(false, ''),
            array(true, 'a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";}'),
            array(false, 'a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar"}'),
@@ -856,13 +777,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(false, 'a:1:{s:5:"fòô";s:5:"bàř"}', 'UTF-8'),
            array(true, serialize(array('fòô' => 'bár')), 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForIsUpperCase()
+    public function isUpperCaseProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(true, ''),
            array(true, 'FOOBAR'),
            array(false, 'FOO BAR'),
@@ -872,13 +791,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(false, 'FÒÔ BÀŘ', 'UTF-8'),
            array(false, 'FÒÔBàř', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForIsHexadecimal()
+    public function isHexadecimalProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(true, ''),
            array(true, 'abcdef'),
            array(true, 'ABCDEF'),
@@ -893,13 +810,11 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(false, '0123456789x', 'UTF-8'),
            array(false, 'ABCDEFx', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForCount()
+    public function countSubstrProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array(0, '', 'foo'),
            array(0, 'foo', 'bar'),
            array(1, 'foo bar', 'foo'),
@@ -916,17 +831,17 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array(2, 'fôòô bàř', 'Ô', false, 'UTF-8'),
            array(2, 'συγγραφέας', 'Σ', false, 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForReplace()
+    public function replaceProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('', '', '', ''),
            array('foo', '', '', 'foo'),
            array('foo', '\s', '\s', 'foo'),
            array('foo bar', 'foo bar', '', ''),
+            array('foo bar', 'foo bar', 'f(o)o', '\1'),
+            array('\1 bar', 'foo bar', 'foo', '\1'),
            array('bar', 'foo bar', 'foo ', ''),
            array('far bar', 'foo bar', 'foo', 'far'),
            array('bar bar', 'foo bar foo bar', 'foo ', ''),
@@ -938,22 +853,19 @@ abstract class CommonTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
            array('far bàř', 'fòô bàř', 'fòô', 'far', 'UTF-8'),
            array('bàř bàř', 'fòô bàř fòô bàř', 'fòô ', '', 'UTF-8'),
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }

-    public function stringsForRegexReplace()
+    public function regexReplaceProvider()
    {
-        $testData = array(
+        return array(
            array('', '', '', ''),
            array('bar', 'foo', 'f[o]+', 'bar'),
+            array('o bar', 'foo bar', 'f(o)o', '\1'),
            array('bar', 'foo bar', 'f[O]+\s', '', 'i'),
            array('foo', 'bar', '[[:alpha:]]{3}', 'foo'),
            array('', '', '', '', 'msr', 'UTF-8'),
            array('bàř', 'fòô ', 'f[òô]+\s', 'bàř', 'msr', 'UTF-8'),
            array('fòô', 'bàř', '[[:alpha:]]{3}', 'fòô', 'msr', 'UTF-8')
        );
-
-        return $testData;
    }
 }
--- a/tests/Stringy/StaticStringyTest.php
+++ b/tests/Stringy/StaticStringyTest.php
@@ -1,14 +1,26 @@
 <?php

-$base = realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../..');
-require("$base/src/Stringy/StaticStringy.php");
+require __DIR__ . '/../src/StaticStringy.php';

 use Stringy\StaticStringy as S;

 class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
 {
    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForUpperCaseFirst
+     * @dataProvider charsProvider()
+     */
+    public function testChars($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        $result = S::chars($str, $encoding);
+        $this->assertInternalType('array', $result);
+        foreach ($result as $char) {
+            $this->assertInternalType('string', $char);
+        }
+        $this->assertEquals($expected, $result);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider upperCaseFirstProvider()
     */
    public function testUpperCaseFirst($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -18,7 +30,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForLowerCaseFirst
+     * @dataProvider lowerCaseFirstProvider()
     */
    public function testLowerCaseFirst($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -28,7 +40,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForCamelize
+     * @dataProvider camelizeProvider()
     */
    public function testCamelize($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -38,7 +50,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForUpperCamelize
+     * @dataProvider upperCamelizeProvider()
     */
    public function testUpperCamelize($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -48,7 +60,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForDasherize
+     * @dataProvider dasherizeProvider()
     */
    public function testDasherize($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -58,7 +70,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForUnderscored
+     * @dataProvider underscoredProvider()
     */
    public function testUnderscored($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -68,7 +80,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForSwapCase
+     * @dataProvider swapCaseProvider()
     */
    public function testSwapCase($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -78,7 +90,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForTitleize
+     * @dataProvider titleizeProvider()
     */
    public function testTitleize($expected, $str, $ignore = null,
                                 $encoding = null)
@@ -89,7 +101,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForHumanize
+     * @dataProvider humanizeProvider()
     */
    public function testHumanize($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -99,7 +111,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForTidy
+     * @dataProvider tidyProvider()
     */
    public function testTidy($expected, $str)
    {
@@ -109,7 +121,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForCollapseWhitespace
+     * @dataProvider collapseWhitespaceProvider()
     */
    public function testCollapseWhitespace($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -119,7 +131,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForToAscii
+     * @dataProvider toAsciiProvider()
     */
    public function testToAscii($expected, $str)
    {
@@ -129,7 +141,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForPad
+     * @dataProvider padProvider()
     */
    public function testPad($expected, $str, $length, $padStr = ' ',
                            $padType = 'right', $encoding = null)
@@ -148,7 +160,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForPadLeft
+     * @dataProvider padLeftProvider()
     */
    public function testPadLeft($expected, $str, $length, $padStr = ' ',
                                $encoding = null)
@@ -159,7 +171,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForPadRight
+     * @dataProvider padRightProvider()
     */
    public function testPadRight($expected, $str, $length, $padStr = ' ',
                                 $encoding = null)
@@ -170,7 +182,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForPadBoth
+     * @dataProvider padBothProvider()
     */
    public function testPadBoth($expected, $str, $length, $padStr = ' ',
                                $encoding = null)
@@ -181,10 +193,10 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForStartsWith
+     * @dataProvider startsWithProvider()
     */
    public function testStartsWith($expected, $str, $substring,
-                                $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
+                                   $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
    {
        $result = S::startsWith($str, $substring, $caseSensitive, $encoding);
        $this->assertInternalType('boolean', $result);
@@ -192,10 +204,10 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForEndsWith
+     * @dataProvider endsWithProvider()
     */
    public function testEndsWith($expected, $str, $substring,
-                                $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
+                                 $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
    {
        $result = S::endsWith($str, $substring, $caseSensitive, $encoding);
        $this->assertInternalType('boolean', $result);
@@ -203,7 +215,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForToSpaces
+     * @dataProvider toSpacesProvider()
     */
    public function testToSpaces($expected, $str, $tabLength = 4)
    {
@@ -213,7 +225,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForToTabs
+     * @dataProvider toTabsProvider()
     */
    public function testToTabs($expected, $str, $tabLength = 4)
    {
@@ -223,7 +235,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForToLowerCase
+     * @dataProvider toLowerCaseProvider()
     */
    public function testToLowerCase($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -233,7 +245,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForToUpperCase
+     * @dataProvider toUpperCaseProvider()
     */
    public function testToUpperCase($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -243,17 +255,17 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForSlugify
+     * @dataProvider slugifyProvider()
     */
-    public function testSlugify($expected, $str)
+    public function testSlugify($expected, $str, $replacement = '-')
    {
-        $result = S::slugify($str);
+        $result = S::slugify($str, $replacement);
        $this->assertInternalType('string', $result);
        $this->assertEquals($expected, $result);
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForContains
+     * @dataProvider containsProvider()
     */
    public function testContains($expected, $haystack, $needle,
                                 $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
@@ -264,7 +276,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForSurround
+     * @dataProvider surroundProvider()
     */
    public function testSurround($expected, $str, $substring)
    {
@@ -274,7 +286,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForInsert
+     * @dataProvider insertProvider()
     */
    public function testInsert($expected, $str, $substring, $index,
                               $encoding = null)
@@ -285,7 +297,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForTruncate
+     * @dataProvider truncateProvider()
     */
    public function testTruncate($expected, $str, $length, $substring = '',
                                 $encoding = null)
@@ -296,7 +308,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForSafeTruncate
+     * @dataProvider safeTruncateProvider()
     */
    public function testSafeTruncate($expected, $str, $length, $substring = '',
                                     $encoding = null)
@@ -307,7 +319,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForReverse
+     * @dataProvider reverseProvider()
     */
    public function testReverse($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -317,7 +329,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForShuffle
+     * @dataProvider shuffleProvider()
     */
    public function testShuffle($str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -338,7 +350,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForTrim
+     * @dataProvider trimProvider()
     */
    public function testTrim($expected, $str)
    {
@@ -348,7 +360,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForLongestCommonPrefix
+     * @dataProvider longestCommonPrefixProvider()
     */
    public function testLongestCommonPrefix($expected, $str, $otherStr,
                                            $encoding = null)
@@ -359,7 +371,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForLongestCommonSuffix
+     * @dataProvider longestCommonSuffixProvider()
     */
    public function testLongestCommonSuffix($expected, $str, $otherStr,
                                            $encoding = null)
@@ -370,7 +382,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForLongestCommonSubstring
+     * @dataProvider longestCommonSubstringProvider()
     */
    public function testLongestCommonSubstring($expected, $str, $otherStr,
                                               $encoding = null)
@@ -381,7 +393,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForLength
+     * @dataProvider lengthProvider()
     */
    public function testLength($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -391,7 +403,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForSubstr
+     * @dataProvider substrProvider()
     */
    public function testSubstr($expected, $str, $start, $length = null,
                               $encoding = null)
@@ -402,7 +414,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForAt
+     * @dataProvider atProvider()
     */
    public function testAt($expected, $str, $index, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -412,7 +424,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForFirst
+     * @dataProvider firstProvider()
     */
    public function testFirst($expected, $str, $n, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -422,7 +434,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForLast
+     * @dataProvider lastProvider()
     */
    public function testLast($expected, $str, $n, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -432,7 +444,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForEnsureLeft
+     * @dataProvider ensureLeftProvider()
     */
    public function testEnsureLeft($expected, $str, $substring, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -442,7 +454,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForEnsureRight
+     * @dataProvider ensureRightProvider()
     */
    public function testEnsureRight($expected, $str, $substring, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -452,7 +464,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForRemoveLeft
+     * @dataProvider removeLeftProvider()
     */
    public function testRemoveLeft($expected, $str, $substring, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -462,7 +474,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForRemoveRight
+     * @dataProvider removeRightProvider()
     */
    public function testRemoveRight($expected, $str, $substring, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -472,7 +484,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsAlpha
+     * @dataProvider isAlphaProvider()
     */
    public function testIsAlpha($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -482,7 +494,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsAlphanumeric
+     * @dataProvider isAlphanumericProvider()
     */
    public function testIsAlphanumeric($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -492,7 +504,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsBlank
+     * @dataProvider isBlankProvider()
     */
    public function testIsBlank($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -500,9 +512,9 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
        $this->assertInternalType('boolean', $result);
        $this->assertEquals($expected, $result);
    }
-    
+
    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsJson
+     * @dataProvider isJsonProvider()
     */
    public function testIsJson($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -512,7 +524,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsLowerCase
+     * @dataProvider isLowerCaseProvider()
     */
    public function testIsLowerCase($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -522,7 +534,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsSerialized
+     * @dataProvider isSerializedProvider()
     */
    public function testIsSerialized($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -532,7 +544,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsUpperCase
+     * @dataProvider isUpperCaseProvider()
     */
    public function testIsUpperCase($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -542,7 +554,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsHexadecimal
+     * @dataProvider isHexadecimalProvider()
     */
    public function testIsHexadecimal($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -552,18 +564,18 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForCount
+     * @dataProvider countSubstrProvider()
     */
-    public function testCount($expected, $str, $substring, $caseSensitive = true,
-                              $encoding = null)
+    public function testCountSubstr($expected, $str, $substring,
+                                    $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
    {
-        $result = S::count($str, $substring, $caseSensitive, $encoding);
+        $result = S::countSubstr($str, $substring, $caseSensitive, $encoding);
        $this->assertInternalType('int', $result);
        $this->assertEquals($expected, $result);
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForReplace
+     * @dataProvider replaceProvider()
     */
    public function testReplace($expected, $str, $search, $replacement,
                                $encoding = null)
@@ -574,7 +586,7 @@ class StaticStringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForRegexReplace
+     * @dataProvider regexReplaceProvider()
     */
    public function testRegexReplace($expected, $str, $pattern, $replacement,
                                     $options = 'msr', $encoding = null)
--- a/tests/Stringy/StringyTest.php
+++ b/tests/Stringy/StringyTest.php
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?php

-$base = realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../..');
-require("$base/src/Stringy/Stringy.php");
+require __DIR__ . '/../src/Stringy.php';

 use Stringy\Stringy as S;

@@ -11,16 +10,55 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    {
        $stringy = new S('foo bar', 'UTF-8');
        $this->assertInstanceOf('Stringy\Stringy', $stringy);
-        $this->assertEquals('foo bar', $stringy->str);
-        $this->assertEquals('UTF-8', $stringy->encoding);
+        $this->assertEquals('foo bar', (string) $stringy);
+        $this->assertEquals('UTF-8', $stringy->getEncoding());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @expectedException InvalidArgumentException
+     */
+    public function testConstructWithArray()
+    {
+        (string) new S(array());
+        $this->fail('Expecting exception when the constructor is passed an array');
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @expectedException InvalidArgumentException
+     */
+    public function testMissingToString()
+    {
+        (string) new S(new stdClass());
+        $this->fail('Expecting exception when the constructor is passed an ' .
+                    'object without a __toString method');
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider toStringProvider()
+     */
+    public function testToString($expected, $str)
+    {
+        $this->assertEquals($expected, (string) new S($str));
+    }
+
+    public function toStringProvider()
+    {
+        return array(
+            array('', null),
+            array('', false),
+            array('1', true),
+            array('-9', -9),
+            array('1.18', 1.18),
+            array(' string  ', ' string  ')
+        );
    }

    public function testCreate()
    {
        $stringy = S::create('foo bar', 'UTF-8');
        $this->assertInstanceOf('Stringy\Stringy', $stringy);
-        $this->assertEquals('foo bar', $stringy->str);
-        $this->assertEquals('UTF-8', $stringy->encoding);
+        $this->assertEquals('foo bar', (string) $stringy);
+        $this->assertEquals('UTF-8', $stringy->getEncoding());
    }

    public function testChaining()
@@ -31,8 +69,105 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
        $this->assertEquals('FÒÔ bÀŘ', $result);
    }

+    public function testCount()
+    {
+        $stringy = S::create('Fòô', 'UTF-8');
+        $this->assertEquals(3, $stringy->count());
+        $this->assertEquals(3, count($stringy));
+    }
+
+    public function testGetIterator()
+    {
+        $stringy = S::create('Fòô Bàř', 'UTF-8');
+
+        $valResult = array();
+        foreach ($stringy as $char) {
+            $valResult[] = $char;
+        }
+
+        $keyValResult = array();
+        foreach ($stringy as $pos => $char) {
+            $keyValResult[$pos] = $char;
+        }
+
+        $this->assertEquals(array('F', 'ò', 'ô', ' ', 'B', 'à', 'ř'), $valResult);
+        $this->assertEquals(array('F', 'ò', 'ô', ' ', 'B', 'à', 'ř'), $keyValResult);
+    }
+
    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForUpperCaseFirst
+     * @dataProvider offsetExistsProvider()
+     */
+    public function testOffsetExists($expected, $offset)
+    {
+        $stringy = S::create('fòô', 'UTF-8');
+        $this->assertEquals($expected, $stringy->offsetExists($offset));
+        $this->assertEquals($expected, isset($stringy[$offset]));
+    }
+
+    public function offsetExistsProvider()
+    {
+        return array(
+            array(true, 0),
+            array(true, 2),
+            array(false, 3),
+            array(true, -1),
+            array(true, -3),
+            array(false, -4)
+        );
+    }
+
+    public function testOffsetGet()
+    {
+        $stringy = S::create('fòô', 'UTF-8');
+
+        $this->assertEquals('f', $stringy->offsetGet(0));
+        $this->assertEquals('ô', $stringy->offsetGet(2));
+
+        $this->assertEquals('ô', $stringy[2]);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @expectedException \OutOfBoundsException
+     */
+    public function testOffsetGetOutOfBounds()
+    {
+        $stringy = S::create('fòô', 'UTF-8');
+        $test = $stringy[3];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @expectedException \Exception
+     */
+    public function testOffsetSet()
+    {
+        $stringy = S::create('fòô', 'UTF-8');
+        $stringy[1] = 'invalid';
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @expectedException \Exception
+     */
+    public function testOffsetUnset()
+    {
+        $stringy = S::create('fòô', 'UTF-8');
+        unset($stringy[1]);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider charsProvider()
+     */
+    public function testChars($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        $result = S::create($str, $encoding)->chars();
+        $this->assertInternalType('array', $result);
+        foreach ($result as $char) {
+            $this->assertInternalType('string', $char);
+        }
+        $this->assertEquals($expected, $result);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider upperCaseFirstProvider()
     */
    public function testUpperCaseFirst($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -42,7 +177,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForLowerCaseFirst
+     * @dataProvider lowerCaseFirstProvider()
     */
    public function testLowerCaseFirst($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -54,7 +189,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForCamelize
+     * @dataProvider camelizeProvider()
     */
    public function testCamelize($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -66,7 +201,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForUpperCamelize
+     * @dataProvider upperCamelizeProvider()
     */
    public function testUpperCamelize($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -78,7 +213,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForDasherize
+     * @dataProvider dasherizeProvider()
     */
    public function testDasherize($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -90,7 +225,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForUnderscored
+     * @dataProvider underscoredProvider()
     */
    public function testUnderscored($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -102,7 +237,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForSwapCase
+     * @dataProvider swapCaseProvider()
     */
    public function testSwapCase($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -114,7 +249,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForTitleize
+     * @dataProvider titleizeProvider()
     */
    public function testTitleize($expected, $str, $ignore = null,
                                 $encoding = null)
@@ -127,7 +262,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForHumanize
+     * @dataProvider humanizeProvider()
     */
    public function testHumanize($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -139,7 +274,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForTidy
+     * @dataProvider tidyProvider()
     */
    public function testTidy($expected, $str)
    {
@@ -151,7 +286,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForCollapseWhitespace
+     * @dataProvider collapseWhitespaceProvider()
     */
    public function testCollapseWhitespace($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -163,7 +298,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForToAscii
+     * @dataProvider toAsciiProvider()
     */
    public function testToAscii($expected, $str)
    {
@@ -175,7 +310,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForPad
+     * @dataProvider padProvider()
     */
    public function testPad($expected, $str, $length, $padStr = ' ',
                            $padType = 'right', $encoding = null)
@@ -197,7 +332,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForPadLeft
+     * @dataProvider padLeftProvider()
     */
    public function testPadLeft($expected, $str, $length, $padStr = ' ',
                                $encoding = null)
@@ -210,7 +345,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForPadRight
+     * @dataProvider padRightProvider()
     */
    public function testPadRight($expected, $str, $length, $padStr = ' ',
                                 $encoding = null)
@@ -223,7 +358,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForPadBoth
+     * @dataProvider padBothProvider()
     */
    public function testPadBoth($expected, $str, $length, $padStr = ' ',
                                $encoding = null)
@@ -236,10 +371,10 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForStartsWith
+     * @dataProvider startsWithProvider()
     */
    public function testStartsWith($expected, $str, $substring,
-                                $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
+                                   $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
    {
        $stringy = S::create($str, $encoding);
        $result = $stringy->startsWith($substring, $caseSensitive);
@@ -249,10 +384,10 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForEndsWith
+     * @dataProvider endsWithProvider()
     */
    public function testEndsWith($expected, $str, $substring,
-                                $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
+                                 $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
    {
        $stringy = S::create($str, $encoding);
        $result = $stringy->endsWith($substring, $caseSensitive);
@@ -262,7 +397,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForToSpaces
+     * @dataProvider toSpacesProvider()
     */
    public function testToSpaces($expected, $str, $tabLength = 4)
    {
@@ -274,7 +409,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForToTabs
+     * @dataProvider toTabsProvider()
     */
    public function testToTabs($expected, $str, $tabLength = 4)
    {
@@ -286,7 +421,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForToLowerCase
+     * @dataProvider toLowerCaseProvider()
     */
    public function testToLowerCase($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -298,7 +433,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForToUpperCase
+     * @dataProvider toUpperCaseProvider()
     */
    public function testToUpperCase($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -310,19 +445,19 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForSlugify
+     * @dataProvider slugifyProvider()
     */
-    public function testSlugify($expected, $str)
+    public function testSlugify($expected, $str, $replacement = '-')
    {
        $stringy = S::create($str);
-        $result = $stringy->slugify();
+        $result = $stringy->slugify($replacement);
        $this->assertInstanceOf('Stringy\Stringy', $result);
        $this->assertEquals($expected, $result);
        $this->assertEquals($str, $stringy);
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForContains
+     * @dataProvider containsProvider()
     */
    public function testContains($expected, $haystack, $needle,
                                 $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
@@ -335,7 +470,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForSurround
+     * @dataProvider surroundProvider()
     */
    public function testSurround($expected, $str, $substring)
    {
@@ -347,7 +482,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForInsert
+     * @dataProvider insertProvider()
     */
    public function testInsert($expected, $str, $substring, $index,
                               $encoding = null)
@@ -360,7 +495,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForTruncate
+     * @dataProvider truncateProvider()
     */
    public function testTruncate($expected, $str, $length, $substring = '',
                                 $encoding = null)
@@ -373,7 +508,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForReverse
+     * @dataProvider reverseProvider()
     */
    public function testReverse($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -385,7 +520,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForShuffle
+     * @dataProvider shuffleProvider()
     */
    public function testShuffle($str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -408,7 +543,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForTrim
+     * @dataProvider trimProvider()
     */
    public function testTrim($expected, $str)
    {
@@ -420,7 +555,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForLongestCommonPrefix
+     * @dataProvider longestCommonPrefixProvider()
     */
    public function testLongestCommonPrefix($expected, $str, $otherStr,
                                            $encoding = null)
@@ -433,7 +568,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForLongestCommonSubstring
+     * @dataProvider longestCommonSubstringProvider()
     */
    public function testLongestCommonSubstring($expected, $str, $otherStr,
                                               $encoding = null)
@@ -446,7 +581,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForLength
+     * @dataProvider lengthProvider()
     */
    public function testLength($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -458,7 +593,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForSubstr
+     * @dataProvider substrProvider()
     */
    public function testSubstr($expected, $str, $start, $length = null,
                               $encoding = null)
@@ -471,7 +606,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForAt
+     * @dataProvider atProvider()
     */
    public function testAt($expected, $str, $index, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -483,7 +618,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForFirst
+     * @dataProvider firstProvider()
     */
    public function testFirst($expected, $str, $n, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -495,7 +630,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForLast
+     * @dataProvider lastProvider()
     */
    public function testLast($expected, $str, $n, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -507,7 +642,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForEnsureLeft
+     * @dataProvider ensureLeftProvider()
     */
    public function testEnsureLeft($expected, $str, $substring, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -519,7 +654,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForEnsureRight
+     * @dataProvider ensureRightProvider()
     */
    public function testEnsureRight($expected, $str, $substring, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -531,7 +666,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForRemoveLeft
+     * @dataProvider removeLeftProvider()
     */
    public function testRemoveLeft($expected, $str, $substring, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -543,7 +678,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForRemoveRight
+     * @dataProvider removeRightProvider()
     */
    public function testRemoveRight($expected, $str, $substring, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -555,7 +690,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsAlpha
+     * @dataProvider isAlphaProvider()
     */
    public function testIsAlpha($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -567,7 +702,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsAlphanumeric
+     * @dataProvider isAlphanumericProvider()
     */
    public function testIsAlphanumeric($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -579,7 +714,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsBlank
+     * @dataProvider isBlankProvider()
     */
    public function testIsBlank($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -591,7 +726,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsJson
+     * @dataProvider isJsonProvider()
     */
    public function testIsJson($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -603,7 +738,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsLowerCase
+     * @dataProvider isLowerCaseProvider()
     */
    public function testIsLowerCase($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -615,7 +750,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsSerialized
+     * @dataProvider isSerializedProvider()
     */
    public function testIsSerialized($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -627,7 +762,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsUpperCase
+     * @dataProvider isUpperCaseProvider()
     */
    public function testIsUpperCase($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -639,7 +774,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForIsHexadecimal
+     * @dataProvider isHexadecimalProvider()
     */
    public function testIsHexadecimal($expected, $str, $encoding = null)
    {
@@ -651,20 +786,20 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForCount
+     * @dataProvider countSubstrProvider()
     */
-    public function testCount($expected, $str, $substring, $caseSensitive = true,
-                              $encoding = null)
+    public function testCountSubstr($expected, $str, $substring,
+                                    $caseSensitive = true, $encoding = null)
    {
        $stringy = S::create($str, $encoding);
-        $result = $stringy->count($substring, $caseSensitive);
+        $result = $stringy->countSubstr($substring, $caseSensitive);
        $this->assertInternalType('int', $result);
        $this->assertEquals($expected, $result);
        $this->assertEquals($str, $stringy);
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForReplace
+     * @dataProvider replaceProvider()
     */
    public function testReplace($expected, $str, $search, $replacement,
                                $encoding = null)
@@ -677,7 +812,7 @@ class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
    }

    /**
-     * @dataProvider stringsForRegexReplace
+     * @dataProvider regexReplaceProvider()
     */
    public function testregexReplace($expected, $str, $pattern, $replacement,
                                     $options = 'msr', $encoding = null)
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Daniel St. Jules	7600549abc	1.5.1 release	2014-04-19 11:03:05 -04:00
Daniel St. Jules	8fe30d18b7	Fix toAscii failing to remove remaining non-ascii characters	2014-04-19 00:49:46 -04:00
Daniel St. Jules	ae7527ad4a	Remove leading or trailing replacement from slugified string, if present	2014-04-19 00:33:59 -04:00
Yuri Druzhkov	f74f535b78	add preg_quote, add test on regex special symbols	2014-04-15 10:09:11 +04:00
Yuri Druzhkov	5c5087db13	dashes fixes	2014-04-01 18:03:48 +04:00
Daniel St. Jules	8d961e25d0	1.5.0 release	2014-03-19 19:25:00 -04:00
Daniel St. Jules	e46797a9f8	Updated pad methods	2014-03-19 00:40:36 -04:00
Daniel St. Jules	f0805f522d	Merge branch 'pr/20' after cleanup	2014-03-18 23:36:52 -04:00
Bilge	6103eca714	Rewrote Stringy::pad to be DRY. Fixed "Class 'CommonTest' not found" error when running specific tests in PHPUnit by including tests directory in Composer's autoloader.	2014-03-18 23:34:54 -04:00
Daniel St. Jules	952ffd4c00	Add tests classmap to composer As suggested by Bilge in https://github.com/danielstjules/Stringy/pull/20	2014-03-09 20:52:18 -04:00
Daniel St. Jules	7832e22e09	Update require paths in tests	2014-03-09 20:12:53 -04:00
Daniel St. Jules	bcd87c69b8	Merge pull request #26 from lucasmichot/patch-1 Add PHPUnit 4.0.* to require-dev	2014-03-09 20:07:23 -04:00
Lucas	1d9001bcf0	Add PHPUnit 4.0.* to require-dev	2014-03-07 13:45:59 +01:00
Daniel St. Jules	ee88cd93e8	Rename protected method slug to applyDelimeter, fix typos in comments	2014-03-05 19:34:09 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	48f53e98fa	Merge pull request #25 from BastianHofmann/patch-1 DRY underscored and dasherize methods	2014-03-05 19:24:34 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	6e7415a9f5	Merge pull request #24 from maximal/patch-1 Remove conflicting transliteration for Bulgarian	2014-03-05 19:23:16 -05:00
BastianHofmann	c62a5e8d4e	DRY underscored and dasherize methods	2014-03-05 11:21:21 +01:00
MaximAL	cd41723b12	Update CommonTest.php	2014-02-19 10:43:06 +03:00
Daniel St. Jules	404909ffaa	Fixes #19 : Handle consecutive invalid chars in slugify	2014-02-17 11:22:59 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	210c928b79	Added links to readme, included SliceableStringy	2014-02-17 10:41:38 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	1965da2e39	Made str and encoding protected, added getEncoding Neither should be private, so as to allow users to easily extend the class	2014-02-16 21:22:32 -05:00
MaximAL	25fa7340ed	Hard sign in Russian is not equivalent to `a`, it’s rather `'` Apostrophe is also most common transliteration character for soft sign (ь).	2014-02-16 18:50:29 +03:00
Daniel St. Jules	e5f66c6eca	Merge pull request #21 from Bilge/dry-regex-replace Optimized replace() and collapseWhitespace() by reusing regexReplace().	2014-02-14 07:09:57 -05:00
Bilge	5d7e9a8d36	Optimized replace() and collapseWhitespace() by reusing regexReplace(). Fixed bug in replace() where replacement string was being escaped with preg_quote() and added matching tests.	2014-02-14 01:26:55 +00:00
Daniel St. Jules	a7c5b8721c	Add composer.lock and .DS_Store to .gitignore	2014-02-13 13:29:57 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	9399f7a694	Fix isJSON Thanks to Drainedsoul	2014-02-13 06:32:54 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	b990df3c61	1.4.0 release	2014-02-12 19:26:15 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	220d4f95c0	Fix indentation in test - it was bugging me	2014-02-12 19:07:38 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	b3e922c517	Start using PSR-4	2014-02-12 19:02:19 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	edaf567a13	A bit of code cleanup	2014-02-11 22:55:26 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	1d186ca79f	Code comments and documentation cleanup	2014-02-10 23:36:51 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	ffe6c2575a	Add exceptions to ArrayAccess examples	2014-02-06 18:31:34 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	3f5b6a2413	Update ArrayAccess interface implementation, add details to readme	2014-02-06 18:27:21 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	ebc58a51ef	Stringy\Stringy now implements the ArrayAccess interface	2014-02-06 00:07:20 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	1c13f2ad7e	Renamed count to countSubstr, implemented Countable interface	2014-02-03 23:41:57 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	7313dcc07e	Fix failing tests, remove PHP 5.4 short array syntax	2014-02-02 16:10:06 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	f14e8c16a4	Implemented IteratorAggregate, added chars()	2014-02-02 16:07:47 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	9f930262af	Update changelog for 1.3.0	2013-12-16 21:04:30 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	c230885a13	Require objects to have a __toString method, update readme	2013-12-15 01:08:23 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	1f25d0c793	Merge Pull Request #18	2013-12-15 00:15:34 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	0e70d72352	Merge pull request #16 from ivank/patch-2 Support Bulgarian in toAscii	2013-12-13 06:32:34 -08:00
Ivan Kerin	d54628e6ae	Support Bulgarian in toAscii The “proper” bulgarian translitaration should encode ь to y [1], However, since its not really that important to understand the actual word, very rearly used and breaks compatibility with Russian, it might be best to just leave it be, since Russian is a much larger torget. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Bulgarian	2013-12-13 11:05:23 +00:00
gotterdemarung	7335ee5c88	fixed T_OBJECT_OPERATOR issue in PHP 5.3	2013-12-10 23:10:44 +02:00
gotterdemarung	5e01d895db	titleize refactoring to avoid visibility problems in PHP 5.3	2013-12-10 22:59:10 +02:00
gotterdemarung	3458fd79fd	Stringy->$str became private to ensure its sting content and guarantee zero-exception __toString() execution	2013-12-10 22:34:19 +02:00
gotterdemarung	6e5e5e055f	primitives check in constructor & toString	2013-12-10 22:19:42 +02:00
gotterdemarung	88d5973701	Implicit cast argument to string in constructor	2013-12-10 22:15:58 +02:00
gotterdemarung	75404a0338	Stringy must correctly handle non-string arguments and implicitly cast to string to avoid problems in __toString() method	2013-12-10 22:15:28 +02:00
Daniel St. Jules	bc96cdad0c	Merge pull request #17 from floriansemm/master fix typo in pad function call	2013-12-09 20:55:26 -08:00
Florian Semm	6014ff52df	fix typo in pad function call	2013-12-09 15:15:45 +01:00
Daniel St. Jules	6ba29637b2	Updated changelog for 1.2.2	2013-12-04 23:36:17 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	2ada00ff62	Add logo	2013-12-01 15:43:03 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	2a197244a5	Update readme and comments for new slugify param	2013-11-27 01:14:09 -05:00
Daniel St. Jules	8b1a91fe0c	Merge pull request #15 from glynnforrest/slug Adding optional $replacement parameter to slugify.	2013-11-26 22:03:02 -08:00
Glynn Forrest	906f217dc1	Adding optional $replacement parameter to slugify.	2013-11-26 14:11:41 +00:00
Daniel St. Jules	d4baab7583	Merge pull request #14 from sergebezborodov/master Use late static bindings in Stringy::create	2013-11-05 20:00:18 -08:00
Serge Bezborodov	0c8f0e9083	changes in create function	2013-11-01 09:55:38 +02:00
Daniel St. Jules	2155447ce8	Updated changelog for 1.2.1	2013-10-11 01:19:53 -04:00
Daniel St. Jules	77efce3a38	Added homepage to composer.json	2013-10-11 01:17:17 -04:00
Daniel St. Jules	f6085ed2cb	Cleanup tests a bit Getting over my irrational fear of multi-line return statements	2013-09-27 20:13:04 -04:00