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class="custom-index container"></div><div class="section" id="loading-this-helper"> +<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id1">Loading this Helper</a><a class="headerlink" href="#loading-this-helper" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> +<p>This helper is loaded using the following code:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$this</span><span class="o">-></span><span class="na">load</span><span class="o">-></span><span class="na">helper</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'string'</span><span class="p">);</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +</div> +<div class="section" id="available-functions"> +<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">Available Functions</a><a class="headerlink" href="#available-functions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> +<p>The following functions are available:</p> +<dl class="function"> +<dt id="random_string"> +<code class="descname">random_string</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em>$type = 'alnum'</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>$len = 8</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#random_string" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> +<dd><table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple"> +<li><strong>$type</strong> (<em>string</em>) – Randomization type</li> +<li><strong>$len</strong> (<em>int</em>) – Output string length</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">A random string</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">string</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<p>Generates a random string based on the type and length you specify. +Useful for creating passwords or generating random hashes.</p> +<p>The first parameter specifies the type of string, the second parameter +specifies the length. The following choices are available:</p> +<ul class="simple"> +<li><strong>alpha</strong>: A string with lower and uppercase letters only.</li> +<li><strong>alnum</strong>: Alpha-numeric string with lower and uppercase characters.</li> +<li><strong>basic</strong>: A random number based on <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">mt_rand()</span></code>.</li> +<li><strong>numeric</strong>: Numeric string.</li> +<li><strong>nozero</strong>: Numeric string with no zeros.</li> +<li><strong>md5</strong>: An encrypted random number based on <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">md5()</span></code> (fixed length of 32).</li> +<li><strong>sha1</strong>: An encrypted random number based on <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sha1()</span></code> (fixed length of 40).</li> +</ul> +<p>Usage example:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">echo</span> <span class="nx">random_string</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'alnum'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">16</span><span class="p">);</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +<div class="admonition note"> +<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> +<p class="last">Usage of the <em>unique</em> and <em>encrypt</em> types is DEPRECATED. They +are just aliases for <em>md5</em> and <em>sha1</em> respectively.</p> +</div> +</dd></dl> + +<dl class="function"> +<dt id="increment_string"> +<code class="descname">increment_string</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>$str</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>$separator = '_'</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>$first = 1</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#increment_string" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> +<dd><table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple"> +<li><strong>$str</strong> (<em>string</em>) – Input string</li> +<li><strong>$separator</strong> (<em>string</em>) – Separator to append a duplicate number with</li> +<li><strong>$first</strong> (<em>int</em>) – Starting number</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">An incremented string</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">string</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<p>Increments a string by appending a number to it or increasing the +number. Useful for creating “copies” or a file or duplicating database +content which has unique titles or slugs.</p> +<p>Usage example:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">echo</span> <span class="nx">increment_string</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'file'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'_'</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">// "file_1"</span> +<span class="k">echo</span> <span class="nx">increment_string</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'file'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'-'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">// "file-2"</span> +<span class="k">echo</span> <span class="nx">increment_string</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'file_4'</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">// "file_5"</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +</dd></dl> + +<dl class="function"> +<dt id="alternator"> +<code class="descname">alternator</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>$args</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#alternator" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> +<dd><table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple"> +<li><strong>$args</strong> (<em>mixed</em>) – A variable number of arguments</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Alternated string(s)</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">mixed</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<p>Allows two or more items to be alternated between, when cycling through +a loop. Example:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">for</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$i</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="nv">$i</span> <span class="o"><</span> <span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="nv">$i</span><span class="o">++</span><span class="p">)</span> +<span class="p">{</span> + <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="nx">alternator</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'string one'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'string two'</span><span class="p">);</span> +<span class="p">}</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +<p>You can add as many parameters as you want, and with each iteration of +your loop the next item will be returned.</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">for</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$i</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="nv">$i</span> <span class="o"><</span> <span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="nv">$i</span><span class="o">++</span><span class="p">)</span> +<span class="p">{</span> + <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="nx">alternator</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'one'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'two'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'three'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'four'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'five'</span><span class="p">);</span> +<span class="p">}</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +<div class="admonition note"> +<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> +<p class="last">To use multiple separate calls to this function simply call the +function with no arguments to re-initialize.</p> +</div> +</dd></dl> + +<dl class="function"> +<dt id="repeater"> +<code class="descname">repeater</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>$data</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>$num = 1</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#repeater" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> +<dd><table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple"> +<li><strong>$data</strong> (<em>string</em>) – Input</li> +<li><strong>$num</strong> (<em>int</em>) – Number of times to repeat</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Repeated string</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">string</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<p>Generates repeating copies of the data you submit. Example:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="p">;</span> +<span class="k">echo</span> <span class="nx">repeater</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$string</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">);</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +<p>The above would generate 30 newlines.</p> +<div class="admonition note"> +<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> +<p class="last">This function is DEPRECATED. Use the native <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">str_repeat()</span></code> +instead.</p> +</div> +</dd></dl> + +<dl class="function"> +<dt id="reduce_double_slashes"> +<code class="descname">reduce_double_slashes</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>$str</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#reduce_double_slashes" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> +<dd><table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple"> +<li><strong>$str</strong> (<em>string</em>) – Input string</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">A string with normalized slashes</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">string</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<p>Converts double slashes in a string to a single slash, except those +found in URL protocol prefixes (e.g. http://).</p> +<p>Example:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"http://example.com//index.php"</span><span class="p">;</span> +<span class="k">echo</span> <span class="nx">reduce_double_slashes</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$string</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">// results in "http://example.com/index.php"</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +</dd></dl> + +<dl class="function"> +<dt id="strip_slashes"> +<code class="descname">strip_slashes</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>$data</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#strip_slashes" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> +<dd><table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple"> +<li><strong>$data</strong> (<em>mixed</em>) – Input string or an array of strings</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">String(s) with stripped slashes</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">mixed</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<p>Removes any slashes from an array of strings.</p> +<p>Example:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$str</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span> + <span class="s1">'question'</span><span class="nx"> </span><span class="o">=></span> <span class="s1">'Is your name O\'reilly?'</span><span class="p">,</span> + <span class="s1">'answer'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="s1">'No, my name is O\'connor.'</span> +<span class="p">);</span> + +<span class="nv">$str</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">strip_slashes</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$str</span><span class="p">);</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +<p>The above will return the following array:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">array</span><span class="p">(</span> + <span class="s1">'question'</span><span class="nx"> </span><span class="o">=></span> <span class="s2">"Is your name O'reilly?"</span><span class="p">,</span> + <span class="s1">'answer'</span> <span class="o">=></span> <span class="s2">"No, my name is O'connor."</span> +<span class="p">);</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +<div class="admonition note"> +<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> +<p class="last">For historical reasons, this function will also accept +and handle string inputs. This however makes it just an +alias for <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">stripslashes()</span></code>.</p> +</div> +</dd></dl> + +<dl class="function"> +<dt id="trim_slashes"> +<code class="descname">trim_slashes</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>$str</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#trim_slashes" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> +<dd><table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple"> +<li><strong>$str</strong> (<em>string</em>) – Input string</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Slash-trimmed string</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">string</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<p>Removes any leading/trailing slashes from a string. Example:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"/this/that/theother/"</span><span class="p">;</span> +<span class="k">echo</span> <span class="nx">trim_slashes</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$string</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">// results in this/that/theother</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +<div class="admonition note"> +<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> +<p class="last">This function is DEPRECATED. Use the native <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">trim()</span></code> instead: +| +| trim($str, ‘/’);</p> +</div> +</dd></dl> + +<dl class="function"> +<dt id="reduce_multiples"> +<code class="descname">reduce_multiples</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>$str</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>$character = ''</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>$trim = FALSE</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#reduce_multiples" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> +<dd><table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple"> +<li><strong>$str</strong> (<em>string</em>) – Text to search in</li> +<li><strong>$character</strong> (<em>string</em>) – Character to reduce</li> +<li><strong>$trim</strong> (<em>bool</em>) – Whether to also trim the specified character</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Reduced string</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">string</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<p>Reduces multiple instances of a particular character occurring directly +after each other. Example:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"Fred, Bill,, Joe, Jimmy"</span><span class="p">;</span> +<span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">reduce_multiples</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$string</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s2">","</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">//results in "Fred, Bill, Joe, Jimmy"</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +<p>If the third parameter is set to TRUE it will remove occurrences of the +character at the beginning and the end of the string. Example:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">",Fred, Bill,, Joe, Jimmy,"</span><span class="p">;</span> +<span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">reduce_multiples</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$string</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">", "</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="k">TRUE</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">//results in "Fred, Bill, Joe, Jimmy"</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +</dd></dl> + +<dl class="function"> +<dt id="quotes_to_entities"> +<code class="descname">quotes_to_entities</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>$str</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#quotes_to_entities" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> +<dd><table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple"> +<li><strong>$str</strong> (<em>string</em>) – Input string</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">String with quotes converted to HTML entities</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">string</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<p>Converts single and double quotes in a string to the corresponding HTML +entities. Example:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"Joe's </span><span class="se">\"</span><span class="s2">dinner</span><span class="se">\"</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="p">;</span> +<span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">quotes_to_entities</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$string</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">//results in "Joe&#39;s &quot;dinner&quot;"</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +</dd></dl> + +<dl class="function"> +<dt id="strip_quotes"> +<code class="descname">strip_quotes</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>$str</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#strip_quotes" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> +<dd><table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> +<col class="field-name" /> +<col class="field-body" /> +<tbody valign="top"> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple"> +<li><strong>$str</strong> (<em>string</em>) – Input string</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">String with quotes stripped</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">string</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +<p>Removes single and double quotes from a string. Example:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"Joe's </span><span class="se">\"</span><span class="s2">dinner</span><span class="se">\"</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="p">;</span> +<span class="nv">$string</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nx">strip_quotes</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$string</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">//results in "Joes dinner"</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +</dd></dl> + +</div> +</div> + + + </div> + <footer> + + <div class="rst-footer-buttons" role="navigation" aria-label="footer navigation"> + + <a href="text_helper.html" class="btn btn-neutral float-right" title="Text Helper">Next <span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-right"></span></a> + + + <a href="smiley_helper.html" class="btn btn-neutral" title="Smiley Helper"><span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-left"></span> Previous</a> + + </div> + + + <hr/> + + <div role="contentinfo"> + <p> + © Copyright 2014 - 2018, British Columbia Institute of Technology. + Last updated on Jun 12, 2018. + </p> + </div> + + Built with <a href="http://sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> using a <a href="https://github.com/snide/sphinx_rtd_theme">theme</a> provided by <a href="https://readthedocs.org">Read the Docs</a>. + +</footer> + </div> + </div> + + </section> + + </div> + + + + + + <script type="text/javascript"> + var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = { + URL_ROOT:'../', + VERSION:'3.1.9', + COLLAPSE_INDEX:false, + FILE_SUFFIX:'.html', + HAS_SOURCE: false + }; + </script> + <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script> + <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script> + <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script> + + + + + + <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/js/theme.js"></script> + + + + + <script type="text/javascript"> + jQuery(function () { + SphinxRtdTheme.StickyNav.enable(); + }); + </script> + + +</body> +</html>
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