ITools - A simple support library for PHP ========================================= Home: https://itools.search.ch/ License: https://itools.search.ch/git/itools.git/plain/COPYING Installing: git clone https://itools.search.ch/git/itools.git Reference: https://itools.search.ch/(function | class | class/function) Tutorial video: https://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 7.0 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) 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. If "dyncols" exists in schema, unknown columns are mapped to a dynamic column. 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: 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 $t->store($fields) -- create a record or update efficiently if exists $t->delete($query) -- delete current record or those found by query $t->query($sqlquery) -- execute a raw SQL query on db connection $t = Tablename::get($id) -- return valid object loaded with record $id or null it_text - Translation support ----------------------------- it_text finds the best language to use from browser and override settings. It then reads texts.php in the format documented in the constructor. You can then use T() to translate a label. Unknown labels are reported using it::error() Example: echo T('hello') . ' ' . Q($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) echoes the values of $foo and $bar AND prepends it with the names of the variables. EDX() does the same and exits. EDC('verbose', $foo) only echoes if $GLOBALS['debug_verbose'] is set. it_debug::backtrace() outputs a compact stackdump. Example: ED($foo, $bar); # echoes 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($params) -- Convert image using ImageMagick convert it::log($fn, $data, $data...) -- Append data (separated by tabs) to log/$fn-$date it::map($expr, $array) -- Apply php expression to array members & return 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, supports a streaming mode for huge XML files. Not documented yet, check the source.