public static function stripify($string,$varCompliant=false) {

$sep = '_';

$string = trim($string, " \t\n\r\0\x0B".$sep);

$string = self::sanitize($string, $varCompliant);

$string = preg_replace('`('.$sep.'+)`',$sep,$string);

$string = preg_replace('`'.$sep.'$`','',$string);

$string = str_replace('?','',$string);

$string = str_replace('_-','_',$string);

$string = str_replace('-_','-',$string);

$string = str_replace('--','-',$string);

$string = str_replace('__','_',$string);

$string = preg_replace('`\s+`','_',$string);

return strtolower($string);

}

public static function sanitize($string, $varCompliant = false)

{

if($varCompliant) {

$string = trim($string);

$string = strtr(utf8_decode($string),utf8_decode('-:+ëËÉÈÀÂÔÊÎÛàâéêèîôûùçò² ,!?&\'"./'),'___eeeeaaoeiuaaeeeiouuco2_________');

} else {

$string = strtr(utf8_decode($string),utf8_decode('ëËÉÈÀÂÔÊÎÛàâéêèîôûùçò² ,!?&\'"./'),'eeeeaaoeiuaaeeeiouuco2---------');

}

return $string;

}

public function unspacify($string)

{

$string = trim($string);

$string = preg_replace('`\s+`u','_',$string);

$string = str_replace('_-','_',$string);

$string = str_replace('-_','-',$string);

$string = str_replace('--','-',$string);

$string = preg_replace('`(_|-)+`u','_',$string);

$string = str_replace('&','and',$string);

return $string;

}

public static function stripLines($text)

{

$text = str_replace(CHR(10),"",$text);

// et celle là aussi :

$text = str_replace(CHR(13),"",$text);

return $text;

}

public static function cleanFileName($name)

{

eregi('(.*)\.([^\.]+)$',$name,$tab);

return self::stripify($tab[1]).'.'.$tab[2];

}

public static function stripifycity($city)

{

$city=self::stripify($city);

$city=str_replace('saint-','st-',$city);

$city = str_replace('-sur-','-s-',$city);

return $city;

}

public static function number_unformat ( $string )

{

$string = preg_replace('`[^0-9]`i','',$string);

return $string;

}

public static function extractEmails ($string)

{

preg_match_all('`([[:alnum:]]([-_.]*[[:alnum:]])*@[[:alnum:]]([-.]?[[:alnum:]])*\.([a-z]{2,4}))`i',$string,$res);

return $res[1];

}

public static function truncate ($string,$length,$end=' ...')

{

$res = preg_replace('`^(.{'.$length.'}[^ ]*) .*$`s','$1'.$end,$string);

return $res;

}

public static function ucsentence ($string){

$string = explode ('.', $string);

$count = count ($string);

for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++){

$string[$i] = ucfirst (strtolower(trim ($string[$i])));

if ($i > 0){

if ((ord($string[$i]{0})<48) || (ord($string[$i]{0})>57)) {

$string[$i] = ' ' . $string[$i];

}

}

}

$string = implode ('.', $string);

return $string;

}

public static function create_guid()

{

$microTime = microtime();

list($a_dec, $a_sec) = explode(" ", $microTime);

$dec_hex = sprintf("%x", $a_dec* 1000000);

$sec_hex = sprintf("%x", $a_sec);

ensure_length($dec_hex, 5);

ensure_length($sec_hex, 6);

$guid = "";

$guid .= $dec_hex;

$guid .= create_guid_section(3);

$guid .= '-';

$guid .= create_guid_section(4);

$guid .= '-';

$guid .= create_guid_section(4);

$guid .= '-';

$guid .= create_guid_section(4);

$guid .= '-';

$guid .= $sec_hex;

$guid .= create_guid_section(6);

return $guid;

}

/* public static function unaccent($str)

{

$str=strtr(utf8_decode(strtolower($str)),utf8_decode('ûùüàâéêèëîïöôç'),'uuuaaeeeeiiooc');

return $str;

}*/

public static function unaccent($str, $charset='utf-8',$removePunct=true)

{

$str = htmlentities($str, ENT_NOQUOTES, $charset);

$str = preg_replace('#\&([A-za-z])(?:uml|circ|tilde|acute|grave|cedil|ring)\;#', '\1', $str);

$str = preg_replace('#\&([A-za-z]{2})(?:lig)\;#', '\1', $str); // pour les ligatures e.g. '&oelig;'

if($removePunct) {

$str = preg_replace('#\&[^;]+\;#', '', $str); // supprime les autres caractères

$str = preg_replace('#\W|\s#',' ',$str);

}

return trim($str);

}

public static function autocap($text)

{

while(ereg('[A-Z]{2}',$text)) {

$text = preg_replace('/([A-Z][A-Z]+)/e',"strtolower('\\1')",$text);

}

$text = preg_replace('/\. ?([a-z])/e',"'. '.strtoupper('\\1')",$text);

return ucfirst($text);

}

public static function aucfirst(&$item,$key)

{

$item = ucfirst(trim(strtolower($item)));

}

public static function pascal($string)

{

$string = self::sanitize($string, true);

$string = strtolower($string);

$string = str_replace('_', ' ', $string);

$string = ucwords($string);

$string = str_replace(' ', '', $string);

return $string;

}

public static function camel($string)

{

$string = self::pascal($string);

$string[0] = strtolower($string[0]);

return $string;

}

public static function snake($string)

{

$string = self::sanitize($string, true);

$string = preg_replace('/([A-Z])/', '_$1', $string);

$string = preg_replace('`(_+)`','_',$string);

$string = strtolower($string);

return trim($string, '_');

}

{

$return = "";

for($i=0; $i<$characters; $i++)

{

$return .= sprintf("%x", mt_rand(0,15));

}

return $return;

{

$strlen = strlen($string);

if($strlen < $length)

{

$string = str_pad($string,$length,"0");

}

else if($strlen > $length)

{

$string = substr($string, 0, $length);

}

list($a_dec, $a_sec) = explode(" ", $a);

list($b_dec, $b_sec) = explode(" ", $b);

return $b_sec - $a_sec + $b_dec - $a_dec;