SWDB/application/helper/TEXT_Helper.php

<?php
    /**
     * Text helper file.
     *
     * Provides a helper to perform text operations.
     *
     * @category Helper.
     */

    /**
     * Require dependent files if not present.
     */
    require_once(PATH::HELPER . "Helper.php");

    /**
     * Text helper.
     *
     * Contains utilities to format and escapee text.
     *
     * @category Helper.
     */
    final class TEXT extends Helper{

        /**
         * Turns a date string into a human readable string on the specified
         * language. Only works for spanish, basque and english.
         * 
         * @param string $str_date Date string ('yyyy-mm-dd' or 'yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS')
         * @param string $time Append the time at the end.
         * @return string Formatted date string.
         */
        public static function format_date($str_date, $time = true){
            $date = strtotime($str_date);
            $year = date("o", $date);
            $month = date("n", $date);
            $month --;
            $day = date("j", $date);
            $wday = date("N", $date);
            $wday --;
            $hour = date("H", $date);
            $minute = date("i", $date);
            $week = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"];
            $months = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"];
            if ($time){
                $str = "$week[$wday], $months[$month] $day, $year at $hour:$minute";
            }
            else{
                $str = "$week[$wday], $months[$month] $day, $year";
            }
            return $str;
        }

        /**
         * Closes all the opened HTML tags in a given string.
         * 
         * @param string html The string with HTML tags.
         * @return string HTML with closed tags.
         */
        public static function close_tags($html) {
            $result = [];
            preg_match_all("#<(?!meta|img|br|hr|input\b)\b([a-z]+)(?: .*)?(?<![/|/ ])>#iU", $html, $result);
            $openedtags = $result[1];
            preg_match_all("#</([a-z]+)>#iU", $html, $result);
            $closedtags = $result[1];
            $len_opened = count($openedtags);
            if (count($closedtags) == $len_opened) {
                return $html;
            }
            $openedtags = array_reverse($openedtags);
            for ($i=0; $i < $len_opened; $i++) {
                if (!in_array($openedtags[$i], $closedtags)) {
                    $html .= "</".$openedtags[$i].">";
                } else {
                    unset($closedtags[array_search($openedtags[$i], $closedtags)]);
                }
            }
            return $html;
        }

        /**
         * Text shortener.
         *
         * Given a string, it trims in the proximity of the
         * desired string, up to the next white character. If indicated, it will
         * append a link to the full text.
         * 
         * @param string $text The text to shorten.
         * @param int $length The desired length.
         * @param string $link_text Text for the link. Optional.
         * @param string $link URI of the link.
         * @return string Shortened text.
         */
        public static function cut_text($text, $length, $link_text = "", $link = ""){
            if (strlen($text) < $length){
                return $text;
            }
            $cut = substr($text, 0, strpos($text, " ", $length));
            $cut = close_tags($cut);
            if (strlen($cut) == 0){
                $cut = $text;
            }
            if (strlen($text) != strlen($cut) && strlen($link) > 0 && strlen($link_text) > 0){
                $cut = $cut . "... <a href='$link'>$link_text</a>";
            }
            return $cut;
        }
    }

?>