Plugin: PHPStringFun
Development and Programming
In response to a particular problem posed here on the forums, I copy’n’pasted together a quick plugin that acts as a gateway to PHP’s string functions without needing to activate PHP in a template. It’s attached to this post.
Derek made me improve it a bit, but he doesn’t want to add it to the main plugins repository until I’ve weeded out from it any PHP functions that won’t work within it. Rather than sit and test every PHP function, most of which I’ve never used and don’t know, I thought it might be easier to ask the community if they can see from the following list of PHP functions which ones will be problematic inside PHPStringFun.
addcslashes, bin2hex, chop, chr, chunk_split, convert_cyr_string, convert_uudecode, convert_uuencode, count_chars, crc32, crypt, echo, explode, get_html_translation_table, hebrev, hebrevc, html_entity_decode, htmlentities, htmlspecialchars_decode, htmlspecialchars, join, levenshtein, localeconv, ltrim, md5_file, md5, metaphone, money_format, nl_langinfo, nl2br, number_format, ord, parse_str, print, printf, quoted_printable_decode, quotemeta, rtrim, setlocale, sha1_file, sha1, similar_text, soundex, sprintf, sscanf, str_ireplace, str_pad, str_repeat, str_replace, str_rot13, str_shuffle, str_split, str_word_count, strcasecmp, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcspn, strip_tags, stripcslashes, stripos, stripslashes, stristr, strlen, strnatcasecmp, strnatcmp, strncasecmp, strncmp, strpbrk, strpos, strrchr, strrev, strripos, strrpos, strspn, strstr, strtok, strtolower, strtoupper, strtr, substr_compare, substr_count, substr_replace, substr, trim, ucfirst, ucwords, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wordwrap.
Whichever ones anybody points out I’ll remove from the array of allowed functions inside the plugin.
Hey, it’s worth a try.
Do you know I never saw this? I added it to the wiki.
I remember seeing this post but I was to busy to try the plugin at that time… and forgot about it :red:
Great plugin, just did some testing and I absolutely love it!
Thanks Adam.
[EDIT] @Lisa, thanks for adding it to the Wiki.
In my effort to remove as much PHP from my templates as possible, I will give this a shot. I just found a place where I’m using ‘str_replace’ so I’ll try re-doing that with this plugin, thanks!
Is there any obvious reason this isn’t working?
{exp:phpstringfun function="str_replace" par1="/" par2="x"}/blah/blah2/blah3{/exp:phpstringfun}Results in:
xThat should replace every slash with an x, but it looks like it’s replacing the first one and stopping there. Any suggestions?
Ryan, there already is a str_replace plugin. 😊 I don’t have the link to it handy, but you should be able to find it in the plugins list.
Why, you’re right! Thanks!
For anyone else: Here’s the thread for the Find and Replace plugin, as created by Lodewijk. This plugin can also found on the Plugins page.
does anyone know what happened to the phpstringfun plugin? Can’t find it anymore!
Wait…isn’t it at the top of this thread?
i know this was posted a while ago, but i didn’t know about it until today. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU (ad infinitum)
Don’t forget: when uploading to the plugins folder, change the extension from …
pi.phpstringfun.txt
… to …
pi.phpstringfun.php
Documentation is then available in the Plugins manager by clicking on the plugin name/link.
Mega-super-awesome-cool plugin.
This plugin is frickin’ excellent. So outstanding in fact, that today will forever be known to me as ‘phpstring fun day’. Mark it down everyone, 10th June.
A toast!
Has anyone gotten this to work with money_format? I have a string and I want to display it formatted in good old British Pounds Sterling. But I can’t get it to work…