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  • Bug fixes for general core bugs in 4.1.x will end 13 November 2023 (12 months).
  • Bug fixes for security issues in 4.1.x will end 10 November 2025 (36 months).
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<?php
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//
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/**
 * Defines string apis
 *
 * @package    core
 * @copyright  (C) 2001-3001 Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) {@link http://contiento.com}
 * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */

defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die();

/**
 * defines string api's for manipulating strings
 *
 * This class is used to manipulate strings under Moodle 1.6 an later. As
 * utf-8 text become mandatory a pool of safe functions under this encoding
 * become necessary. The name of the methods is exactly the
 * same than their PHP originals.
 *
 * This class was previously based on Typo3 which has now been removed and uses
 * native functions now.
 *
 * @package   core
 * @category  string
 * @copyright 1999 onwards Martin Dougiamas  {@link http://moodle.com}
 * @license   http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */
class core_text {
    /** @var string Byte order mark for UTF-8 */
    const UTF8_BOM = "\xef\xbb\xbf";

    /**
     * @var string[] Array of strings representing Unicode non-characters
     */
    protected static $noncharacters;

    /**
     * Check whether the charset is supported by mbstring.
     * @param string $charset Normalised charset
     * @return bool
     */
    public static function is_charset_supported(string $charset): bool {
        static $cache = null;
        if (!$cache) {
            $cache = array_flip(array_map('strtolower', mb_list_encodings()));
        }

        if (isset($cache[strtolower($charset)])) {
            return true;
        }

        // We haven't found the charset, check if mb has aliases for the charset.
        try {
            return mb_encoding_aliases($charset) !== false;
        } catch (Throwable $e) {
            // A ValueError will be thrown if unsupported.
        }

        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Reset internal textlib caches.
     * @static
     * @deprecated since Moodle 4.0. See MDL-53544.
     * @todo To be removed in Moodle 4.4 - MDL-71748
     */
    public static function reset_caches() {
        debugging("reset_caches() is deprecated. Typo3 has been removed and caches aren't used anymore.", DEBUG_DEVELOPER);
    }

    /**
     * Standardise charset name
     *
     * Please note it does not mean the returned charset is actually supported.
     *
     * @static
     * @param string $charset raw charset name
     * @return string normalised lowercase charset name
     */
    public static function parse_charset($charset) {
< $charset = strtolower($charset);
> $charset = strtolower($charset ?? '');
if ($charset === 'utf8' or $charset === 'utf-8') { return 'utf-8'; } if (preg_match('/^(cp|win|windows)-?(12[0-9]{2})$/', $charset, $matches)) { return 'windows-'.$matches[2]; } if (preg_match('/^iso-8859-[0-9]+$/', $charset, $matches)) { return $charset; } if ($charset === 'euc-jp') { return 'euc-jp'; } if ($charset === 'iso-2022-jp') { return 'iso-2022-jp'; } if ($charset === 'shift-jis' or $charset === 'shift_jis') { return 'shift_jis'; } if ($charset === 'gb2312') { return 'gb2312'; } if ($charset === 'gb18030') { return 'gb18030'; } if ($charset === 'ms-ansi') { return 'windows-1252'; } // We have reached this stage and haven't matched with anything. Return the original. return $charset; } /** * Converts the text between different encodings. It uses iconv extension with //TRANSLIT parameter. * If both source and target are utf-8 it tries to fix invalid characters only. * * @param string $text * @param string $fromCS source encoding * @param string $toCS result encoding * @return string|bool converted string or false on error */ public static function convert($text, $fromCS, $toCS='utf-8') { $fromCS = self::parse_charset($fromCS); $toCS = self::parse_charset($toCS); $text = (string)$text; // we can work only with strings if ($text === '') { return ''; } if ($fromCS === 'utf-8') { $text = fix_utf8($text); if ($toCS === 'utf-8') { return $text; } } if ($toCS === 'ascii') { // Try to normalize the conversion a bit if the target is ascii. return self::specialtoascii($text, $fromCS); } // Prevent any error notices, do not use //IGNORE so that we get // consistent result if iconv fails. return @iconv($fromCS, $toCS.'//TRANSLIT', $text); } /** * Multibyte safe substr() function, uses mbstring or iconv * * @param string $text string to truncate * @param int $start negative value means from end * @param int $len maximum length of characters beginning from start * @param string $charset encoding of the text * @return string portion of string specified by the $start and $len */ public static function substr($text, $start, $len=null, $charset='utf-8') { $charset = self::parse_charset($charset); // Check whether the charset is supported by mbstring. CP1250 is not supported. Fall back to iconv. if (self::is_charset_supported($charset)) {
< $result = mb_substr($text, $start, $len, $charset);
> $result = mb_substr($text ?? '', $start, $len, $charset);
} else {
< $result = iconv_substr($text, $start, $len, $charset);
> $result = (string)iconv_substr($text ?? '', $start, $len, $charset);
} return $result; } /** * Truncates a string to no more than a certain number of bytes in a multi-byte safe manner. * UTF-8 only! * * @param string $string String to truncate * @param int $bytes Maximum length of bytes in the result * @return string Portion of string specified by $bytes * @since Moodle 3.1 */ public static function str_max_bytes($string, $bytes) {
< return mb_strcut($string, 0, $bytes, 'UTF-8');
> return mb_strcut($string ?? '', 0, $bytes, 'UTF-8');
} /** * Finds the last occurrence of a character in a string within another. * UTF-8 ONLY safe mb_strrchr(). * * @param string $haystack The string from which to get the last occurrence of needle. * @param string $needle The string to find in haystack. * @param boolean $part If true, returns the portion before needle, else return the portion after (including needle). * @return string|false False when not found. * @since Moodle 2.4.6, 2.5.2, 2.6 */ public static function strrchr($haystack, $needle, $part = false) {
> if (is_null($haystack)) { return mb_strrchr($haystack, $needle, $part, 'UTF-8'); > // Compatibility with behavior in PHP before version 8.1. } > return false; > }
/** * Multibyte safe strlen() function, uses mbstring or iconv * * @param string $text input string * @param string $charset encoding of the text * @return int number of characters */ public static function strlen($text, $charset='utf-8') { $charset = self::parse_charset($charset); if (self::is_charset_supported($charset)) {
< return mb_strlen($text, $charset);
> return mb_strlen($text ?? '', $charset);
}
< return iconv_strlen($text, $charset);
> return iconv_strlen($text ?? '', $charset);
} /** * Multibyte safe strtolower() function, uses mbstring. * * @param string $text input string * @param string $charset encoding of the text (may not work for all encodings) * @return string lower case text */ public static function strtolower($text, $charset='utf-8') { $charset = self::parse_charset($charset); // Confirm mbstring can handle the charset. if (self::is_charset_supported($charset)) {
< return mb_strtolower($text, $charset);
> return mb_strtolower($text ?? '', $charset);
} // The mbstring extension cannot handle the charset. Convert to UTF-8. $convertedtext = self::convert($text, $charset, 'utf-8'); $result = mb_strtolower($convertedtext); $result = self::convert($result, 'utf-8', $charset); return $result; } /** * Multibyte safe strtoupper() function, uses mbstring. * * @param string $text input string * @param string $charset encoding of the text (may not work for all encodings) * @return string upper case text */ public static function strtoupper($text, $charset='utf-8') { $charset = self::parse_charset($charset); // Confirm mbstring can handle the charset. if (self::is_charset_supported($charset)) {
< return mb_strtoupper($text, $charset);
> return mb_strtoupper($text ?? '', $charset);
} // The mbstring extension cannot handle the charset. Convert to UTF-8. $convertedtext = self::convert($text, $charset, 'utf-8'); $result = mb_strtoupper($convertedtext); $result = self::convert($result, 'utf-8', $charset); return $result; } /** * Find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string. * UTF-8 ONLY safe strpos(), uses mbstring * * @param string $haystack the string to search in * @param string $needle one or more charachters to search for * @param int $offset offset from begining of string * @return int the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in haystack. */ public static function strpos($haystack, $needle, $offset=0) {
< return mb_strpos($haystack, $needle, $offset, 'UTF-8');
> return mb_strpos($haystack ?? '', $needle, $offset, 'UTF-8');
} /** * Find the position of the last occurrence of a substring in a string * UTF-8 ONLY safe strrpos(), uses mbstring * * @param string $haystack the string to search in * @param string $needle one or more charachters to search for * @return int the numeric position of the last occurrence of needle in haystack */ public static function strrpos($haystack, $needle) {
< return mb_strrpos($haystack, $needle, null, 'UTF-8');
> if (is_null($haystack)) { > // Compatibility with behavior in PHP before version 8.1. > return false; > } > return mb_strrpos($haystack, $needle, 0, 'UTF-8');
} /** * Reverse UTF-8 multibytes character sets (used for RTL languages) * (We only do this because there is no mb_strrev or iconv_strrev) * * @param string $str the multibyte string to reverse * @return string the reversed multi byte string */ public static function strrev($str) {
< preg_match_all('/./us', $str, $ar);
> preg_match_all('/./us', $str ?? '', $ar);
return join('', array_reverse($ar[0])); } /** * Try to convert upper unicode characters to plain ascii, * the returned string may contain unconverted unicode characters. * * With the removal of typo3, iconv conversions was found to be the best alternative to Typo3's function. * However using the standard iconv call * iconv($charset, 'ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE', (string) $text); * resulted in invalid strings with special character from Russian/Japanese. To solve this, the transliterator was * used but this resulted in empty strings for certain strings in our test. It was decided to use a combo of the 2 * to cover all our bases. Refer MDL-53544 for further information. * * @param string $text input string * @param string $charset encoding of the text * @return string converted ascii string */ public static function specialtoascii($text, $charset='utf-8') { $charset = self::parse_charset($charset); $oldlevel = error_reporting(E_PARSE); // Always convert to utf-8, so transliteration can do its work always. if ($charset !== 'utf-8') { $text = iconv($charset, 'utf-8'.'//TRANSLIT', $text); } $text = transliterator_transliterate('Any-Latin; Latin-ASCII', (string) $text); // Still, apply iconv because some chars are not handled by transliterate. $result = iconv('utf-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE', (string) $text); error_reporting($oldlevel); return $result; } /** * Generate a correct base64 encoded header to be used in MIME mail messages. * This function seems to be 100% compliant with RFC1342. Credits go to: * paravoid (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-encode-mimeheader.php#60283). * * @param string $text input string * @param string $charset encoding of the text * @return string base64 encoded header */ public static function encode_mimeheader($text, $charset='utf-8') { if (empty($text)) { return (string)$text; } // Normalize charset $charset = self::parse_charset($charset); // If the text is pure ASCII, we don't need to encode it if (self::convert($text, $charset, 'ascii') == $text) { return $text; } // Although RFC says that line feed should be \r\n, it seems that // some mailers double convert \r, so we are going to use \n alone $linefeed="\n"; // Define start and end of every chunk $start = "=?$charset?B?"; $end = "?="; // Accumulate results $encoded = ''; // Max line length is 75 (including start and end) $length = 75 - strlen($start) - strlen($end); // Multi-byte ratio $multilength = self::strlen($text, $charset); // Detect if strlen and friends supported if ($multilength === false) { if ($charset == 'GB18030' or $charset == 'gb18030') { while (strlen($text)) { // try to encode first 22 chars - we expect most chars are two bytes long if (preg_match('/^(([\x00-\x7f])|([\x81-\xfe][\x40-\x7e])|([\x81-\xfe][\x80-\xfe])|([\x81-\xfe][\x30-\x39]..)){1,22}/m', $text, $matches)) { $chunk = $matches[0]; $encchunk = base64_encode($chunk); if (strlen($encchunk) > $length) { // find first 11 chars - each char in 4 bytes - worst case scenario preg_match('/^(([\x00-\x7f])|([\x81-\xfe][\x40-\x7e])|([\x81-\xfe][\x80-\xfe])|([\x81-\xfe][\x30-\x39]..)){1,11}/m', $text, $matches); $chunk = $matches[0]; $encchunk = base64_encode($chunk); } $text = substr($text, strlen($chunk)); $encoded .= ' '.$start.$encchunk.$end.$linefeed; } else { break; } } $encoded = trim($encoded); return $encoded; } else { return false; } } $ratio = $multilength / strlen($text); // Base64 ratio $magic = $avglength = floor(3 * $length * $ratio / 4); // basic infinite loop protection $maxiterations = strlen($text)*2; $iteration = 0; // Iterate over the string in magic chunks for ($i=0; $i <= $multilength; $i+=$magic) { if ($iteration++ > $maxiterations) { return false; // probably infinite loop } $magic = $avglength; $offset = 0; // Ensure the chunk fits in length, reducing magic if necessary do { $magic -= $offset; $chunk = self::substr($text, $i, $magic, $charset); $chunk = base64_encode($chunk); $offset++; } while (strlen($chunk) > $length); // This chunk doesn't break any multi-byte char. Use it. if ($chunk) $encoded .= ' '.$start.$chunk.$end.$linefeed; } // Strip the first space and the last linefeed $encoded = substr($encoded, 1, -strlen($linefeed)); return $encoded; } /** * Returns HTML entity transliteration table. * @return array with (html entity => utf-8) elements */ protected static function get_entities_table() { static $trans_tbl = null; // Generate/create $trans_tbl if (!isset($trans_tbl)) { if (version_compare(phpversion(), '5.3.4') < 0) { $trans_tbl = array();
< foreach (get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES) as $val=>$key) {
> foreach (get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_COMPAT) as $val=>$key) {
$trans_tbl[$key] = self::convert($val, 'ISO-8859-1', 'utf-8'); } } else if (version_compare(phpversion(), '5.4.0') < 0) { $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'); $trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl); } else { $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401, 'UTF-8'); $trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl); } } return $trans_tbl; } /** * Converts all the numeric entities &#nnnn; or &#xnnn; to UTF-8 * Original from laurynas dot butkus at gmail at: * http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php#75153 * with some custom mods to provide more functionality * * @param string $str input string * @param boolean $htmlent convert also html entities (defaults to true) * @return string encoded UTF-8 string */ public static function entities_to_utf8($str, $htmlent=true) { static $callback1 = null ; static $callback2 = null ; if (!$callback1 or !$callback2) { $callback1 = function($matches) { return core_text::code2utf8(hexdec($matches[1])); }; $callback2 = function($matches) { return core_text::code2utf8($matches[1]); }; } $result = (string)$str; $result = preg_replace_callback('/&#x([0-9a-f]+);/i', $callback1, $result); $result = preg_replace_callback('/&#([0-9]+);/', $callback2, $result); // Replace literal entities (if desired) if ($htmlent) { $trans_tbl = self::get_entities_table(); // It should be safe to search for ascii strings and replace them with utf-8 here. $result = strtr($result, $trans_tbl); } // Return utf8-ised string return $result; } /** * Converts all Unicode chars > 127 to numeric entities &#nnnn; or &#xnnn;. * * @param string $str input string * @param boolean $dec output decadic only number entities * @param boolean $nonnum remove all non-numeric entities * @return string converted string */ public static function utf8_to_entities($str, $dec=false, $nonnum=false) { static $callback = null ; if ($nonnum) { $str = self::entities_to_utf8($str, true); }
< $result = mb_strtolower(mb_encode_numericentity($str, [0xa0, 0xffff, 0, 0xffff], 'UTF-8', true));
> $result = mb_strtolower(mb_encode_numericentity($str ?? '', [0xa0, 0xffff, 0, 0xffff], 'UTF-8', true));
// We cannot use the decimal equivalent of the above call due to the unit test and our allowance for // entities to be entered within the provided $str. Refer to the correspond unit test for examples. if ($dec) { if (!$callback) { $callback = function($matches) { return '&#' . hexdec($matches[1]) . ';'; }; } $result = preg_replace_callback('/&#x([0-9a-f]+);/i', $callback, $result); } return $result; } /** * Removes the BOM from unicode string {@link http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html} * * @param string $str input string * @return string */ public static function trim_utf8_bom($str) {
> if (is_null($str)) { $bom = self::UTF8_BOM; > return null; if (strpos($str, $bom) === 0) { > }
return substr($str, strlen($bom)); } return $str; } /** * There are a number of Unicode non-characters including the byte-order mark (which may appear * multiple times in a string) and also other ranges. These can cause problems for some * processing. * * This function removes the characters using string replace, so that the rest of the string * remains unchanged. * * @param string $value Input string * @return string Cleaned string value * @since Moodle 3.5 */ public static function remove_unicode_non_characters($value) { // Set up list of all Unicode non-characters for fast replacing. if (!self::$noncharacters) { self::$noncharacters = []; // This list of characters is based on the Unicode standard. It includes the last two // characters of each code planes 0-16 inclusive... for ($plane = 0; $plane <= 16; $plane++) { $base = ($plane === 0 ? '' : dechex($plane));
< self::$noncharacters[] = html_entity_decode('&#x' . $base . 'fffe;'); < self::$noncharacters[] = html_entity_decode('&#x' . $base . 'ffff;');
> self::$noncharacters[] = html_entity_decode('&#x' . $base . 'fffe;', ENT_COMPAT); > self::$noncharacters[] = html_entity_decode('&#x' . $base . 'ffff;', ENT_COMPAT);
} // ...And the character range U+FDD0 to U+FDEF. for ($char = 0xfdd0; $char <= 0xfdef; $char++) {
< self::$noncharacters[] = html_entity_decode('&#x' . dechex($char) . ';');
> self::$noncharacters[] = html_entity_decode('&#x' . dechex($char) . ';', ENT_COMPAT);
} } // Do character replacement. return str_replace(self::$noncharacters, '', $value); } /** * Returns encoding options for select boxes, utf-8 and platform encoding first * * @return array encodings */ public static function get_encodings() { $encodings = array(); $encodings['UTF-8'] = 'UTF-8'; $winenc = strtoupper(get_string('localewincharset', 'langconfig')); if ($winenc != '') { $encodings[$winenc] = $winenc; } $nixenc = strtoupper(get_string('oldcharset', 'langconfig')); $encodings[$nixenc] = $nixenc; $listedencodings = mb_list_encodings(); foreach ($listedencodings as $enc) { $enc = strtoupper($enc); $encodings[$enc] = $enc; } return $encodings; } /** * Returns the utf8 string corresponding to the unicode value * (from php.net, courtesy - romans@void.lv) * * @param int $num one unicode value * @return string the UTF-8 char corresponding to the unicode value */ public static function code2utf8($num) { if ($num < 128) { return chr($num); } if ($num < 2048) { return chr(($num >> 6) + 192) . chr(($num & 63) + 128); } if ($num < 65536) { return chr(($num >> 12) + 224) . chr((($num >> 6) & 63) + 128) . chr(($num & 63) + 128); } if ($num < 2097152) { return chr(($num >> 18) + 240) . chr((($num >> 12) & 63) + 128) . chr((($num >> 6) & 63) + 128) . chr(($num & 63) + 128); } return ''; } /** * Returns the code of the given UTF-8 character * * @param string $utf8char one UTF-8 character * @return int the code of the given character */ public static function utf8ord($utf8char) { if ($utf8char == '') { return 0; } $ord0 = ord($utf8char[0]); if ($ord0 >= 0 && $ord0 <= 127) { return $ord0; } $ord1 = ord($utf8char[1]); if ($ord0 >= 192 && $ord0 <= 223) { return ($ord0 - 192) * 64 + ($ord1 - 128); } $ord2 = ord($utf8char[2]); if ($ord0 >= 224 && $ord0 <= 239) { return ($ord0 - 224) * 4096 + ($ord1 - 128) * 64 + ($ord2 - 128); } $ord3 = ord($utf8char[3]); if ($ord0 >= 240 && $ord0 <= 247) { return ($ord0 - 240) * 262144 + ($ord1 - 128 )* 4096 + ($ord2 - 128) * 64 + ($ord3 - 128); } return false; } /** * Makes first letter of each word capital - words must be separated by spaces. * Use with care, this function does not work properly in many locales!!! * * @param string $text input string * @return string */ public static function strtotitle($text) { if (empty($text)) { return $text; } return mb_convert_case($text, MB_CASE_TITLE, 'UTF-8'); } }