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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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/**
 * Defines string apis
 *
 * @package   core
 * @copyright 2011 Sam Hemelryk
 *            2012 Petr Skoda
 * @license   http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */

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

/**
 * A collator class with static methods that can be used for sorting.
 *
 * @package   core
 * @copyright 2011 Sam Hemelryk
 *            2012 Petr Skoda
 * @license   http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */
class core_collator {
< /** @const compare items using general PHP comparison, equivalent to Collator::SORT_REGULAR, this may bot be locale aware! */
> /** @var compare items using general PHP comparison, equivalent to Collator::SORT_REGULAR, this may bot be locale aware! */
const SORT_REGULAR = 0;
< /** @const compare items as strings, equivalent to Collator::SORT_STRING */
> /** @var compare items as strings, equivalent to Collator::SORT_STRING */
const SORT_STRING = 1;
< /** @const compare items as numbers, equivalent to Collator::SORT_NUMERIC */
> /** @var compare items as numbers, equivalent to Collator::SORT_NUMERIC */
const SORT_NUMERIC = 2;
< /** @const compare items like natsort(), equivalent to SORT_NATURAL */
> /** @var compare items like natsort(), equivalent to SORT_NATURAL */
const SORT_NATURAL = 6;
< /** @const do not ignore case when sorting, use bitwise "|" with SORT_NATURAL or SORT_STRING, equivalent to Collator::UPPER_FIRST */
> /** @var do not ignore case when sorting, use bitwise "|" with SORT_NATURAL or SORT_STRING, equivalent to Collator::UPPER_FIRST */
const CASE_SENSITIVE = 64; /** @var Collator|false|null **/ protected static $collator = null; /** @var string|null The locale that was used in instantiating the current collator **/ protected static $locale = null; /** * Prevent class instances, all methods are static. */ private function __construct() { } /** * Ensures that a collator is available and created * * @return bool Returns true if collation is available and ready */ protected static function ensure_collator_available() { $locale = get_string('locale', 'langconfig'); if (is_null(self::$collator) || $locale != self::$locale) { self::$collator = false; self::$locale = $locale; if (class_exists('Collator', false)) { $collator = new Collator($locale); if (!empty($collator) && $collator instanceof Collator) { // Check for non fatal error messages. This has to be done immediately // after instantiation as any further calls to collation will cause // it to reset to 0 again (or another error code if one occurred) $errorcode = $collator->getErrorCode(); $errormessage = $collator->getErrorMessage(); // Check for an error code, 0 means no error occurred if ($errorcode !== 0) { // Get the actual locale being used, e.g. en, he, zh $localeinuse = $collator->getLocale(Locale::ACTUAL_LOCALE); // Check for the common fallback warning error codes. If any of the two // following errors occurred, there is normally little to worry about: // * U_USING_FALLBACK_WARNING (-128) indicates that a fall back locale was // used. For example, 'de_CH' was requested, but nothing was found // there, so 'de' was used. // * U_USING_DEFAULT_WARNING (-127) indicates that the default locale // data was used; neither the requested locale nor any of its fall // back locales could be found. For example, 'pt' was requested, but // UCA was used (Unicode Collation Algorithm http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/). // See http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/classicu_1_1ResourceBundle.html if ($errorcode === -127 || $errorcode === -128) { // Check if the locale in use is UCA default one ('root') or // if it is anything like the locale we asked for if ($localeinuse !== 'root' && strpos($locale, $localeinuse) !== 0) { // The locale we asked for is completely different to the locale // we have received, let the user know via debugging debugging('Locale warning (not fatal) '.$errormessage.': '. 'Requested locale "'.$locale.'" not found, locale "'.$localeinuse.'" used instead. '. 'The most specific locale supported by ICU relatively to the requested locale is "'. $collator->getLocale(Locale::VALID_LOCALE).'".'); } else { // Nothing to do here, this is expected! // The Moodle locale setting isn't what the collator expected but // it is smart enough to match the first characters of our locale // to find the correct locale or to use UCA collation } } else { // We've received some other sort of non fatal warning - let the // user know about it via debugging. debugging('Problem with locale: '.$errormessage.'. '. 'Requested locale: "'.$locale.'", actual locale "'.$localeinuse.'". '. 'The most specific locale supported by ICU relatively to the requested locale is "'. $collator->getLocale(Locale::VALID_LOCALE).'".'); } } // Store the collator object now that we can be sure it is in a workable condition self::$collator = $collator; } else { // Fatal error while trying to instantiate the collator... something went wrong debugging('Error instantiating collator for locale: "' . $locale . '", with error [' . intl_get_error_code() . '] ' . intl_get_error_message($collator)); } } } return (self::$collator instanceof Collator); } /** * Restore array contents keeping new keys. * @static * @param array $arr * @param array $original * @return void modifies $arr */ protected static function restore_array(array &$arr, array &$original) { foreach ($arr as $key => $ignored) { $arr[$key] = $original[$key]; } } /** * Normalise numbers in strings for natural sorting comparisons. * @static * @param string $string * @return string string with normalised numbers */ protected static function naturalise($string) { return preg_replace_callback('/[0-9]+/', array('core_collator', 'callback_naturalise'), $string); } /** * @internal * @static * @param array $matches * @return string */ public static function callback_naturalise($matches) { return str_pad($matches[0], 20, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT); } /** * Locale aware sorting, the key associations are kept, values are sorted alphabetically. * * @param array $arr array to be sorted (reference) * @param int $sortflag One of core_collator::SORT_NUMERIC, core_collator::SORT_STRING, core_collator::SORT_NATURAL, core_collator::SORT_REGULAR * optionally "|" core_collator::CASE_SENSITIVE * @return bool True on success */ public static function asort(array &$arr, $sortflag = core_collator::SORT_STRING) { if (empty($arr)) { // nothing to do return true; } $original = null; $casesensitive = (bool)($sortflag & core_collator::CASE_SENSITIVE); $sortflag = ($sortflag & ~core_collator::CASE_SENSITIVE); if ($sortflag != core_collator::SORT_NATURAL and $sortflag != core_collator::SORT_STRING) { $casesensitive = false; } if (self::ensure_collator_available()) { if ($sortflag == core_collator::SORT_NUMERIC) { $flag = Collator::SORT_NUMERIC; } else if ($sortflag == core_collator::SORT_REGULAR) { $flag = Collator::SORT_REGULAR; } else { $flag = Collator::SORT_STRING; } if ($sortflag == core_collator::SORT_NATURAL) { $original = $arr; if ($sortflag == core_collator::SORT_NATURAL) { foreach ($arr as $key => $value) { $arr[$key] = self::naturalise((string)$value); } } } if ($casesensitive) { self::$collator->setAttribute(Collator::CASE_FIRST, Collator::UPPER_FIRST); } else { self::$collator->setAttribute(Collator::CASE_FIRST, Collator::OFF); } $result = self::$collator->asort($arr, $flag); if ($original) { self::restore_array($arr, $original); } return $result; } // try some fallback that works at least for English if ($sortflag == core_collator::SORT_NUMERIC) { return asort($arr, SORT_NUMERIC); } else if ($sortflag == core_collator::SORT_REGULAR) { return asort($arr, SORT_REGULAR); } if (!$casesensitive) { $original = $arr; foreach ($arr as $key => $value) { $arr[$key] = core_text::strtolower($value); } } if ($sortflag == core_collator::SORT_NATURAL) { $result = natsort($arr); } else { $result = asort($arr, SORT_LOCALE_STRING); } if ($original) { self::restore_array($arr, $original); } return $result; } /** * Locale aware sort of objects by a property in common to all objects * * @param array $objects An array of objects to sort (handled by reference) * @param string $property The property to use for comparison * @param int $sortflag One of core_collator::SORT_NUMERIC, core_collator::SORT_STRING, core_collator::SORT_NATURAL, core_collator::SORT_REGULAR * optionally "|" core_collator::CASE_SENSITIVE * @return bool True on success */ public static function asort_objects_by_property(array &$objects, $property, $sortflag = core_collator::SORT_STRING) { $original = $objects; foreach ($objects as $key => $object) { $objects[$key] = $object->$property; } $result = self::asort($objects, $sortflag); self::restore_array($objects, $original); return $result; } /** * Locale aware sort of objects by a method in common to all objects * * @param array $objects An array of objects to sort (handled by reference) * @param string $method The method to call to generate a value for comparison * @param int $sortflag One of core_collator::SORT_NUMERIC, core_collator::SORT_STRING, core_collator::SORT_NATURAL, core_collator::SORT_REGULAR * optionally "|" core_collator::CASE_SENSITIVE * @return bool True on success */ public static function asort_objects_by_method(array &$objects, $method, $sortflag = core_collator::SORT_STRING) { $original = $objects; foreach ($objects as $key => $object) { $objects[$key] = $object->{$method}(); } $result = self::asort($objects, $sortflag); self::restore_array($objects, $original); return $result; } /** * Locale aware sort of array of arrays. * * Given an array like: * $array = array( * array('name' => 'bravo'), * array('name' => 'charlie'), * array('name' => 'alpha') * ); * * If you call: * core_collator::asort_array_of_arrays_by_key($array, 'name') * * You will be returned $array sorted by the name key of the subarrays. e.g. * $array = array( * array('name' => 'alpha'), * array('name' => 'bravo'), * array('name' => 'charlie') * ); * * @param array $array An array of objects to sort (handled by reference) * @param string $key The key to use for comparison * @param int $sortflag One of * core_collator::SORT_NUMERIC, * core_collator::SORT_STRING, * core_collator::SORT_NATURAL, * core_collator::SORT_REGULAR * optionally "|" core_collator::CASE_SENSITIVE * @return bool True on success */ public static function asort_array_of_arrays_by_key(array &$array, $key, $sortflag = core_collator::SORT_STRING) { $original = $array; foreach ($array as $initkey => $item) { $array[$initkey] = $item[$key]; } $result = self::asort($array, $sortflag); self::restore_array($array, $original); return $result; } /** * Locale aware sorting, the key associations are kept, keys are sorted alphabetically. * * @param array $arr array to be sorted (reference) * @param int $sortflag One of core_collator::SORT_NUMERIC, core_collator::SORT_STRING, core_collator::SORT_NATURAL, core_collator::SORT_REGULAR * optionally "|" core_collator::CASE_SENSITIVE * @return bool True on success */ public static function ksort(array &$arr, $sortflag = core_collator::SORT_STRING) { $keys = array_keys($arr); if (!self::asort($keys, $sortflag)) { return false; } // This is a bit slow, but we need to keep the references $original = $arr; $arr = array(); // Surprisingly this does not break references outside foreach ($keys as $key) { $arr[$key] = $original[$key]; } return true; } }