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Function Overview
Overview over all functions in the Roster that can be used by Addon Developers.
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- Nefuh | 05.02.2008 03:07 | Created document
Global functions
These function are located in functions.lib.php
border
Parameters: $style, $mode, $header_txt, $width
Starts or ends fancy bodering containers
- @param string $style What bordering style to use
- @param string $mode ( start | end )
- @param string $header_text Place text in a styled header (default null)
- @param string $width Set a fixed width for the box
- @return string
setTooltip
Parameters: $var, $content
Makes a tootip and places it into the tooltip array
- @param string $var
- @param string $content
getAllTooltips
Parameters: none
Gathers all tootips and places them into javascript variables
- @param array $tooltipArray
- @return string Tooltips placed in javascript variables
sql_highlight
Parameters: $sql
Highlight certain keywords in a SQL query
- @param string $sql Query string
- @return string Highlighted string
die_quietly
Parameters: $text, $title, $file, $line, $sql
Clean replacement for die(), outputs a message with debugging info if needed and ends output
- @param string $text Text to display on error page
- @param string $title Title to place on web page (default Message)
- @param string $file Filename to display
- @param string $line Line in file to display
- @param string $sql Any SQL text to display
roster_die
Parameters: $message, $title, $style
Draw a message box with the specified border color, then die cleanly
- @param string $message | The message to display inside the box
- @param string $title | The box title (default Message )
- @param string $style | The border style (default sred)
ajax_die
Parameters: $text, $title, $file, $line, $sql
Print a roster-ajax XML error message
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backtrace
Parameters: none
Print a debug backtrace. This works in PHP4.3.x+, there is an integrated function for this starting PHP5 but I prefer always having the same layout.
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stripAllHtml
Parameters: $string
This will remove HTML tags, javascript sections and white space. It will also convert some common HTML entities to their text equivalent
- @param string $file
check_if_image
Parameters: $filename
This will check if the given Filename is an image
- @param imagefile $file
- @return mixed The extentsion if the filetype is an image, false if it is not
colorTooltip
Parameters: $tooltip, $caption_color, $locale, $inline_caption
Tooltip colorizer function with string cleaning. Use only with #makeOverlib
- @param string $tooltip | Tooltip as a string (delimited by "\n" character)
- @param string $caption_color | (optional) Color for the caption
- Default is 'ffffff' - white
- @param string $locale | (optional) Locale so color parser can work correctly
- Default is $roster->config['locale']
- @param bool $inline_caption | (optional) (default 1)
- Default is true
- @return string | Formatted tooltip
cleanTooltip
Parameters: $tooltip, $caption_color, $inline_caption
Cleans up the tooltip and parses an inline_caption if needed. Use only with #makeOverlib
- @param string $tooltip | Tooltip as a string (delimited by "\n" character)
- @param string $caption_color | (optional) Color for the caption
- Default is 'ffffff' - white
- @param bool $inline_caption | (optional) (default 1)
- Default is true
- @return string | Formatted tooltip
makeOverlib
Parameters: $tooltip, $caption, $caption_color, $mode, $locale, $extra_parameters
Easy all in one function to make overlib tooltips. Creates a string for insertion into any html tag that has "onmouseover" and "onmouseout" events
- @param string $tooltip | Tooltip as a string (delimited by "\n" character)
- @param string $caption | (optional) Text to set as a true OverLib caption
- @param string $caption_color | (optional) Color for the caption
- Default is 'ffffff' - white
- @param bool $mode| (optional) Options 0=colorize,1=clean,2=pass through (default 0)
- Default 0 (colorize)
- @param string $locale | Locale so color parser can work correctly
- Only needed when $colorize is true
- Default is $roster->config['locale']
- @param string $extra_parameters | (optional) Extra OverLib parameters you wish to pass
- @param string $item_id
- @return unknown
messagebox
Parameters: $message, $title, $style, $width
Draw a message box with the specified border color.
- @param string $message | The message to display inside the box
- @param string $title | The box title (default message)
- @param string $style | The border style (default sgray)
- @param string $width | Set a fixed width
- @return string $html | The HTML for the messagebox
scrollbox
Parameters: $message, $title, $style, $width, $height
Draw a 300x550px scrolling messagebox with the specified border color.
- @param string $message | The message to display inside the box
- @param string $title | The box title (default message)
- @param string $style | The border style (default sgray)
- @param string $width | Initial width with unit (default 550px)
- @param string $height | Initial height with unit (default 300px)
- @return string $html | The HTML for the messagebox
messageboxtoggle
Parameters: $message, $title, $style, $open, $width
Draw a message box with the specified border color.
- @param string $message | The message to display inside the box
- @param string $title | The box title
- @param string $style | The border style (default sgray)
- @param boolean $open | True if initially open (default false)
- @param string $width | Initial width with unit (default 550px)
- @return string $html | The HTML for the messagebox
scrollboxtoggle
Parameters: $message, $title, $style, $open, $width, $height
Draw a 300x550px scrolling messagebox with the specified border color.
- @param string $messages | The message to display inside the box
- @param string $title | The box title (default message)
- @param string $style | The border style (default sgray)
- @param string $width | Initial width with unit (default 550px)
- @param string $height | Initial height with unit (default 300px)
- @return string $html | The HTML for the messagebox
escape_array
Parameters: $array
Recursively escape $array
- @param array $array | The array to escape
- @return array | The same array, escaped
stripslash_array
Parameters: $array
Recursively stripslash $array
- @param array $array | The array to escape
- @return array | The same array, escaped
readbleDate
Parameters: $datetime, $offset
Converts a datetime field into a readable date
- @param string $datetime | datetime field data in DB
- @param string $offset | Offset in hours to calcuate time returned
- @return string | formatted date string
get_file_ext
Parameters: $filename
Gets a file's extention passed as a string
- @param string $filename
- @return string
seconds_to_time
Parameters: $seconds
Converts seconds to a string delimited by time values. Will show w,d,h,m,s
- @param string $seconds
- @return string
getaddon
Parameters: $addonname
Sets up addon data for use in the addon framework
- @param string $addonname | The name of the addon
- @return array $addon | The addon's database record
- @global array $addon_conf | The addon's config data is added to this global array.
active_addon
Parameters: $name
Check to see if an addon is active or not
- @param string $name | Addon basename
- @return bool
urlgrabber
Parameters: $url, $timeout, $user_agent, $loopcount
Handles retrieving the contents of a URL trying multiple methods. Current methods are curl, file_get_contents, fsockopen and will try each in that order
- @param string $url | URL to retrieve
- @param int $timeout | Timeout for curl, socket connection timeout for fsock (default 5)
- @param string $user_agent | Useragent to use for connection (default false)
- @param int $loopcount | (default 0)
- @return mixed | False on error, contents on success
request_uri
Parameters: none
Stupid function to create an REQUEST_URI for IIS 5 servers
- @return string
file_writer
Parameters: $filename, &$content, $mode
Attempts to write a file to the file system
- @param string $filename | Name of the file
- @param string $content | Content of the file
- @param string $mode | (default wb)
- @return bool
php_as_nobody
Parameters: $file
No Description
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_aprint
Parameters: $arr, $tab
Debugging function dumps arrays/object formatted. Do Not call this, call aprint()
- @param array $arr
- @param int $tab | (default 1)
- @return string
aprint
Parameters: $arr, $prefix, $return
Debugging function dumps arrays/object formatted
- @param array $arr
- @param string $prefix
- @return string | (default false)
socketColorEn
Parameters: $socket_color, $locale
Helper function that returns the localized gem color in english
- @param string $socket_color
- @return string $color
format_microtime
Parameters: none
No Description
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array_overlay
Parameters: $skel, $arr
A better array_merge()
- @param array $skel
- @param array $arr
- @return array
updateCheck
Parameters: $addon
Checks an addon download id on the wowroster.net rss feed. And informs if there is an update.
- @param string $name | name of the download
- @param string $url | url
dummy
Parameters: none
Dummy function. For when you need a callback that doesn't do anything.
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makelink
Parameters: $url, $full
Function to create links in Roster. ALL LINKS SHOULD PASS THROUGH THIS FUNCTION. Hopefully this function will be the magic that makes porting Roster easier (Ninja looted from DragonFly, thanks you guys!).
- @param string $url | (Example: 'util-news-comment&id='.$news_id)
- @param bool $full | (default false)
- @return string
$roster->db
The following functions can be used to operate on database
error
Parameters: none
Get last SQL error
- @return string last SQL error
errno
Parameters:none
Get last SQL errno
- @return string last SQL errno
query
Parameters: $query
Basic query function
- @param $query Query string
- @return mixed Query ID / Error string / Bool
query_first
Parameters: $query
Return the first record (single column) in a query result
- @param $query Query string
build_query
Parameters: $query, $array
Build query
- @param $query
- @param $array Array of field => value pairs (default false)
- @return $query | Returns the builded query
fetch
Parameters: $query_id, $result_type
Fetch one record
- @param $query_id | Query ID (default 0)
- @param $result_type | SQL_ASSOC, SQL_NUM, or SQL_BOTH (default SQL_BOTH)
- @return mixed Record / false
fetch_all
Parameters: $query_id, $result_type
Fetch all records
- @param $query_id | Query ID (default 0)
- @param $result_type | SQL_ASSOC, SQL_NUM, or SQL_BOTH
- @return mixed Record Set / false
result
Parameters: $query_id, $row, $field
Get result data
- @param $query_id | Query ID (default 0)
- @param $row | The row number from the result that's being retrieved. Row numbers start at 0
- @param $field | The name or offset of the field being retrieved
- @return mixed Record / false
num_rows
Parameters: $query_id
Find the number of returned rows
- @param $query_id | Query ID (default 0)
- @return mixed Number of rows / false
affected_rows
Parameters: $query_id
Finds out the number of rows affected by a query
- @param $query_id | Query ID (default 0)
- @return mixed Affected Rows / false
insert_id
Parameters: none
Find the ID of the row that was just inserted
- @return mixed Last ID / false
free_result
Parameters: $query_id
Free result data
- @param $query_id | Query ID (default 0)
- @return bool
escape
Parameters: $string
Remove quote escape
- @param $string
- @return string
error_die
Parameters: $setting
Set the error_die var
@param $setting
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table
Parameters: $table, $addon
Expand base table name to a full table name
- @param string $table | the base table name
- @param string $addon | the name of the addon, empty for a base roster table
- @return string | tablename as fit for MySQL queries