ITools - A simple support library for PHP ========================================= Home: http://itools.search.ch/ License: http://itools.search.ch/itools/live/COPYING Installing: svn co http://itools.search.ch/itools/live itools Reference: http://itools.search.ch/(function | class | class/function) Tutorial video: http://itools.search.ch/2007-11-14-itools-demo.mov ITools is a collection of PHP functions and classes which make a few common tasks in PHP easier. It works in PHP 4 and up. Our examples omit array() around function parameters and use dangling commas. To get that, you can either use our just-in-time syntax converter or use our patch for PHP (see http://cschneid.com/php/ for info). To use the syntax converter, see the chapter about it_auto_prepend.php below. it_auto_prepend.php - ITools environment (optional) --------------------------------------------------- If you include this with the PHP auto_prepend_file ini setting you get the following benefits: a) Includes all the ITools functionality b) auto_prepend.php is included for each directory in the include path. c) Automatic syntax conversion is enabled if you have a vanilla PHP without our syntax patch installed. NOTE: This may need manual configuration on shared hosting d) If you run PHP 5 an autoloader for classes is installed, you don't need to require any files (it looks for foo.class if you access class foo). e) $GLOBALS['IT_HOME'] is set to one level above the DOCUMENT_ROOT in web mode, one level above the script for CLI mode: This allows access to data directories from web and CLI mode alike. Example: # Put this line in .htaccess or httpd.conf to set up ITools environment php_value auto_prepend_file YOUR_PATH_TO_ITOOLS/it_auto_prepend.php it_html - HTML output generation -------------------------------- it_html creates a global function for each common html tag. Those functions accept variable arguments, key=>value pairs are considered attributes. Example: new it_html; # Not necessary if using it_auto_prepend.php echo html( head('title' => "welcome earth"), body( p('style' => "margin:1em", a('href' => U("http://google.com/search", 'q' => "Hello World"), "Hello World"), ), ), ); Functions: new it_html($config) -- create global functions, choose (x)html style div($attributes, $content) -- return a
with attributes and content html($params, $content) -- return a but adds correct doctype head($params, $content) -- return a but needs special params select($tags, $options, $selected) -- build a html select from an array tag($tag, $content) -- create arbitrary <$tag> Q($str) -- html encode a value, roughly like htmlentities U($arr) -- create a valid url from strings and key=>value it_html::sanitize($html) -- remove dangerous tags from html code it_dbi - Database access ------------------------ The dbi object is a simple mysql interface. For each table in your database, a class is created automatically. Queries are encoded as arrays which ensures correct quoting, see select(). Errors are by default reported within dbi. Example: it_dbi::createclasses(); # Not necessary if using it_auto_prepend.php $record = new T_Customers('ID' => 'mueller'); $record->update('email' => "mueller@spam.com"); $response = "Email added for $record->name"; # Using Iterators (PHP 5+ only): foreach (new T_Customers as $customer) { ... } # Iterate all customers foreach (new T_Customers('age' => 42) as $customer) { ... } foreach (new T_Customers as $id => $customer) { ... } # $id = $customer->_key # ... you can iterate over any query (also multiple times): $customers->select('age' => 42); foreach ($customers as $customer) { foo($customer); } foreach ($customers as $customer) { bar($customer); } Functions: it_dbi::createclasses($config) -- create database objects for each table name $t = new Tablename($query) -- return a dbi object, executes optional select $t->select($query) -- read first result of (encoded) query into t. $t->iterate() -- advance to next result $t->update($fields) -- update selected record from key=>value pairs $t->insert($fields) -- insert a new record from key=>value pairs $t->replace($fields) -- replace a new record from key=>value pairs $t->delete($query) -- delete current record or those found by query $t->query($sqlquery) -- execute a raw SQL query on db connection it_text - Translation support ----------------------------- it_text finds the best language to use from browser and override settings. It then reads texts.php in the format documented in the constructor. You can then use T() to translate a label. Unknown labels are logged in text_log. Example: echo T('hello') . ' ' . Q($customer->name); echo ET('chainletter', 'name' => Q($customer->name)); Functions: new it_text($config) -- read texts. usually called implicitly T($label) -- return translated $label ET($label, $values) -- return translated $label w/ values replaced T_lang() -- returns current language T_set_language($language) -- sets a new language T_exists($label) -- returns whether a label is defined it_debug - Debug support ------------------------ it_debug is used for debugging. The function ED($foo, $bar) outputs echoes the values of $foo and $bar AND prepends it with the names of the variables. EDX() does the same and exists. EDC('verbose', $foo) only echoes if $GLOBALS['debug_verbose'] is set. it_debug::backtrace() outputs a compact stackdump. Example: ED($foo, $bar); # outputs name and value of $foo and $bar EDC('verbose', $foo); Functions: ED($args...) -- echoes names and values of all args EDX($args...) -- echoes names and values of all args and exits EDC('foo', $var...) -- echoes only if $GLOBALS['debug_foo'] is set D($args...) -- returns formatted names and values of params it_debug::backtrace($skip) -- prints short backtrace, skipping $skip levels it.class - Tool functions ------------------------- it.class provides various statically callable functions. The main groups are: a) Much simpler perl regex matching (no delimiters, matches returned directly as scalar or array, case insensitive, locale support) and a multi-pattern replacement function. b) Better error functions: stack and variable dumps added to error messages, error messages mailed if display_errors is off. Extra parameter allow the filtering of sporadic errors. c) Better shell support, specifically a command line parser and an exec function that handles quoting. Example: $from = it::match('From: (.*)', $mail); $page = it::replace('<.*?>' => '', ' +' => ' ', $page); it::error('title'=>"cannot connect", 'id'=>"db"); # suppress sporadic errors it::fatal("internal error"); $diff = it::exec("diff -wu {old} {new}", 'old' => $old, 'new' => $new); it::imageconvert('in' => "src.jpg", 'out' => "dst.jpg", 'size' => "80x80"); Functions: it::match($pattern, $subject, $opts) -- find pattern in subject using opts; return matches it::replace($replace, $subject, $opts) -- replace patterns in subject; return result it::error($info) -- print or mail error message it::fatal($info) -- print or mail error message, then exit it::bail($message) -- print message to stderr, exit with errcode it::exec($command, $values) -- execute command, return output it::getopt($usage) -- parse (or print) usage, return options, it::gets() -- fetch next line from stdin or named arg it::imageconvert($params) -- Convert image using ImageMagick convert it_url - URL handling --------------------- Helper functions dealing with URLs. Example: $filename = it_url::get_cache( 'url' => "http://static.php.net/www.php.net/images/php.gif", 'timeout' => 5, 'cachedir' => $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/cache", ); Functions: it_url::get($params) -- performs GET/POST requests to web servers it_url::get_cache($params) -- performs GET/POST and caches the result it_user - Session handling -------------------------- This allows maintaining session cookies and authentication status for users. Not documented yet, check the source. it_xml - XML parser ------------------- This will parse an XML string and returns a tree of PHP objects; similar to simplexml in PHP 5 but works in PHP 4 and supports a streaming mode for huge XML files. Not documented yet, check the source.