Some clever PHP snippets for Version 8

[gabrielcrowe]

I start this thread becasue of some recent interest in V8+PHP.

Please, post any php snippets and how to use them briefly in this thread.

i'll start us off:

in actinic_main.php

  function AutoLink($txt){
return preg_replace( '/(http|ftp)+(s)?:(\/\/)((\w|\.)+)(\/)?(\S+)?/i', '<a href="\0">\4</a>', $txt ); 
  } 

in your v8:

<actinic:block php="true" >
    $thistext = '<actinic:variable encoding="perl" name="FragmentText"/>';
    $thistext = str_replace('!!<','',$thistext);
    $thistext = str_replace('>!!','',$thistext);
    echo AutoLink($thistext);
</actinic:block> 

this example uses FragmentText. It will strip out line breaks and create links automagically, when you type them in your input, saving you the time of creating them manually.

[gabrielcrowe]

php create correct sentence case v8

in actinic main php:

function sentence_cap($impexp, $sentence_split) {
    $textbad=explode($impexp, $sentence_split);
    $newtext = array();
    foreach ($textbad as $sentence) {
        $sentencegood=ucfirst(strtolower($sentence));
        $newtext[] = $sentencegood;
    }
    $textgood = implode($impexp, $newtext);
    return $textgood;
} 

examples of usage:

$text = "this is a sentence. this is another sentence! this is the fourth sentence? no, this is the fourth sentence.";
$text = sentence_cap(". ",$text);
$text = sentence_cap("! ",$text);
$text = sentence_cap("? ",$text);

echo $text; // This is a sentence. This is another sentence! This is the fourth sentence? No, this is the fourth sentence. 

[gabrielcrowe]

force breaks every X characters

$text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 20, "<br />\n");

echo $newtext; 

Inserts a break into the string at intervals.

[gabrielcrowe]

pull data from any website to include

<actinic:block php="true" >
    echo file_get_contents("http://site-i-like.com/somefile.txt");
</actinic:block> 

take data from anywhere and include it in your site as static text.

take care. you could easily mess up your page rendering with this one, if the file isnt what you expected.