PHP | IntlChar isMirrored() Function

The IntlChar::isMirrored() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to check the code point contains Bidi_Mirrored property or not. This property is used to set the characters that are commonly used in Right-To-Left contexts and need to be displayed with a mirrored graph.

Syntax:

bool IntlChar::isMirrored ( $codepoint )

Parameters: This function accepts a single parameter $codepoint which is mandatory. The input parameter is an integer value or character, which is encoded as UTF-8 string.

Return Value: This function returns True if the $codepoint has the Bidi_Mirrored property, False otherwise.

Below programs illustrate the IntlChar::isMirrored() function in PHP:

Program 1:

<?php

// PHP program to illustrate
// IntlChar::isMirrored function

// Input data is character type
var_dump(IntlChar::isMirrored("A"));

// Input character symbol
var_dump(IntlChar::isMirrored("<"));

// Input character symbol
var_dump(IntlChar::isMirrored("("));

// Input character symbol
var_dump(IntlChar::isMirrored("^"));
?>

Output:

bool(false)
bool(true)
bool(true)
bool(false)

Program 2:

<?php
// PHP code to illustrate IntlChar::isMirrored()
// function.

// Declare an array $arr
$arr = array("Z", "291", "^", "A", "<", ")");

// Loop run for every array element
foreach ($arr as $val){

    // Check each element as code point data
    var_dump(IntlChar::isMirrored($val));
}
?>

Output:

bool(false)
NULL
bool(false)
bool(false)
bool(true)
bool(true)

Reference: http://php.net/manual/en/intlchar.ismirrored.php