The text helper contains functions useful when working with text, apart from validation.
Loading the Helper
$th = Loader::helper(‘text’);
Methods
$r = $th->sanitizeFileSystem($text, $leaveSlashes=false)
Takes text and returns it in the "lowercase_and_underscored_with_no_punctuation" format. Tries to be sensible about internationalized characters, converting umlauts, etc…
$text = $th->sanitize($text, $maxlength = 0)
Strips tags and optionally reduces string to specified length.
$text = $th->entities($text)
Runs htmlentities on $text, but uses the built-in concrete5 APP_CHARSET constant.
$text = $th->shorten($text, $numChars = 255, $tail = ‘…’)
Like sanitize, but requiring a certain number characters, and assuming a tail
$text = $th->camelcase($text)
Takes a string and turns it into the CamelCase or StudlyCaps version.
$text = $th->autolink($text, $newWindow = 0)
Scans passed text and automatically hyperlinks any URL inside it.
$text = $th->twitterAutoLink($text, $newWindow = 0, $withSearch = 0)
Automatically add hyperlinks to any twitter style @usernames in a string.
$text = $th->makenice($text)
Runs a number of text functions, including autolink, nl2br, strip_tags. Assumes that you want simple text comments but witih a few niceties.
$text = $th->fnmatch($text)
A wrapper for PHP’s fnmatch() function, which some installations don’t have. Supports these installations by using a simple regular expression.
$text = $th->uncamelcase($text)
Takes a CamelCase string and turns it into camel_case.
$text = $th->unhandle($text)
Takes a handle-based string like "blah_blah" and turns it into "Blah Blah".
$text = $th->filterNonAlphaNum($text)
Strips out non-alpha-numeric characters.
$text = $th->highlightSearch($text, $searchString)
Useful for highlighting search strings within results (for nice display). Wraps matches in an EM tag with a class of “ccm-highlight-search.”