Functions snaped from drupal

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/**
* Wrapper around urlencode() which avoids Apache quirks.
*
* Should be used when placing arbitrary data in an URL. Note that Drupal paths
* are urlencoded() when passed through url() and do not require urlencoding()
* of individual components.
*
* Notes:
* - For esthetic reasons, we do not escape slashes. This also avoids a 'feature'
*   in Apache where it 404s on any path containing '%2F'.
* - mod_rewrite unescapes %-encoded ampersands, hashes, and slashes when clean
*   URLs are used, which are interpreted as delimiters by PHP. These
*   characters are double escaped so PHP will still see the encoded version.
* - With clean URLs, Apache changes '//' to '/', so every second slash is
*   double escaped.
*
* @param $text
*   String to encode
*/
function drupal_urlencode($text) {
  if (variable_get('clean_url', '0')) {
    return str_replace(array('%2F', '%26', '%23', '//'),
                       array('/', '%2526', '%2523', '/%252F'),
                       rawurlencode($text));
  }
  else {
    return str_replace('%2F', '/', rawurlencode($text));
  }
}

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function parse_size($size) {
  $suffixes = array(
    '' => 1,
    'k' => 1024,
    'm' => 1048576, // 1024 * 1024
    'g' => 1073741824, // 1024 * 1024 * 1024
  );
  if (preg_match('/([0-9]+)\s*(k|m|g)?(b?(ytes?)?)/i', $size, $match)) {
    return $match[1] * $suffixes[drupal_strtolower($match[2])];
  }
}

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/**
* Verify the syntax of the given URL.
*
* This function should only be used on actual URLs. It should not be used for
* Drupal menu paths, which can contain arbitrary characters.
*
* @param $url
*   The URL to verify.
* @param $absolute
*   Whether the URL is absolute (beginning with a scheme such as "http:").
* @return
*   TRUE if the URL is in a valid format.
*/
function valid_url($url, $absolute = FALSE) {
  $allowed_characters = '[a-z0-9\/:_\-_\.\?\$,;~=#&%\+]';
  if ($absolute) {
    return preg_match("/^(http|https|ftp):\/\/". $allowed_characters ."+$/i", $url);
  }
  else {
    return preg_match("/^". $allowed_characters ."+$/i", $url);
  }
}

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function valid_email_address($mail) {
  $user = '[a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.\+\^!#\$%&*+\/\=\?\`\|\{\}~\']+';
  $domain = '(?:(?:[a-zA-Z0-9]|[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9\-]*[a-zA-Z0-9])\.?)+';
  $ipv4 = '[0-9]{1,3}(\.[0-9]{1,3}){3}';
  $ipv6 = '[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}(\:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){7}';

  return preg_match("/^$user@($domain|(\[($ipv4|$ipv6)\]))$/", $mail);
}

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function drupal_validate_utf8($text) {
  if (strlen($text) == 0) {
    return TRUE;
  }
  return (preg_match('/^./us', $text) == 1);
}

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function drupal_http_request($url, $headers = array(), $method = 'GET', $data = NULL, $retry = 3) {
  static $self_test = FALSE;
  $result = new stdClass();
  // Try to clear the drupal_http_request_fails variable if it's set. We
  // can't tie this call to any error because there is no surefire way to
  // tell whether a request has failed, so we add the check to places where
  // some parsing has failed.
  if (!$self_test && variable_get('drupal_http_request_fails', FALSE)) {
    $self_test = TRUE;
    $works = module_invoke('system', 'check_http_request');
    $self_test = FALSE;
    if (!$works) {
      // Do not bother with further operations if we already know that we
      // have no chance.
      $result->error = t("The server can't issue HTTP requests");
      return $result;
    }
  }

  // Parse the URL and make sure we can handle the schema.
  $uri = parse_url($url);

  if ($uri == FALSE) {
    $result->error = 'unable to parse URL';
    return $result;
  }

  if (!isset($uri['scheme'])) {
    $result->error = 'missing schema';
    return $result;
  }

  switch ($uri['scheme']) {
    case 'http':
      $port = isset($uri['port']) ? $uri['port'] : 80;
      $host = $uri['host'] . ($port != 80 ? ':'. $port : '');
      $fp = @fsockopen($uri['host'], $port, $errno, $errstr, 15);
      break;
    case 'https':
      // Note: Only works for PHP 4.3 compiled with OpenSSL.
      $port = isset($uri['port']) ? $uri['port'] : 443;
      $host = $uri['host'] . ($port != 443 ? ':'. $port : '');
      $fp = @fsockopen('ssl://'. $uri['host'], $port, $errno, $errstr, 20);
      break;
    default:
      $result->error = 'invalid schema '. $uri['scheme'];
      return $result;
  }

  // Make sure the socket opened properly.
  if (!$fp) {
    // When a network error occurs, we use a negative number so it does not
    // clash with the HTTP status codes.
    $result->code = -$errno;
    $result->error = trim($errstr);
    return $result;
  }

  // Construct the path to act on.
  $path = isset($uri['path']) ? $uri['path'] : '/';
  if (isset($uri['query'])) {
    $path .= '?'. $uri['query'];
  }

  // Create HTTP request.
  $defaults = array(
    // RFC 2616: "non-standard ports MUST, default ports MAY be included".
    // We don't add the port to prevent from breaking rewrite rules checking the
    // host that do not take into account the port number.
    'Host' => "Host: $host",
    'User-Agent' => 'User-Agent: Drupal (+http://drupal.org/)',
    'Content-Length' => 'Content-Length: '. strlen($data)
  );

  // If the server url has a user then attempt to use basic authentication
  if (isset($uri['user'])) {
    $defaults['Authorization'] = 'Authorization: Basic '. base64_encode($uri['user'] . (!empty($uri['pass']) ? ":". $uri['pass'] : ''));
  }

  foreach ($headers as $header => $value) {
    $defaults[$header] = $header .': '. $value;
  }

  $request = $method .' '. $path ." HTTP/1.0\r\n";
  $request .= implode("\r\n", $defaults);
  $request .= "\r\n\r\n";
  if ($data) {
    $request .= $data ."\r\n";
  }
  $result->request = $request;

  fwrite($fp, $request);

  // Fetch response.
  $response = '';
  while (!feof($fp) && $chunk = fread($fp, 1024)) {
    $response .= $chunk;
  }
  fclose($fp);

  // Parse response.
  list($split, $result->data) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $response, 2);
  $split = preg_split("/\r\n|\n|\r/", $split);

  list($protocol, $code, $text) = explode(' ', trim(array_shift($split)), 3);
  $result->headers = array();

  // Parse headers.
  while ($line = trim(array_shift($split))) {
    list($header, $value) = explode(':', $line, 2);
    if (isset($result->headers[$header]) && $header == 'Set-Cookie') {
      // RFC 2109: the Set-Cookie response header comprises the token Set-
      // Cookie:, followed by a comma-separated list of one or more cookies.
      $result->headers[$header] .= ','. trim($value);
    }
    else {
      $result->headers[$header] = trim($value);
    }
  }

  $responses = array(
    100 => 'Continue', 101 => 'Switching Protocols',
    200 => 'OK', 201 => 'Created', 202 => 'Accepted', 203 => 'Non-Authoritative Information', 204 => 'No Content', 205 => 'Reset Content', 206 => 'Partial Content',
    300 => 'Multiple Choices', 301 => 'Moved Permanently', 302 => 'Found', 303 => 'See Other', 304 => 'Not Modified', 305 => 'Use Proxy', 307 => 'Temporary Redirect',
    400 => 'Bad Request', 401 => 'Unauthorized', 402 => 'Payment Required', 403 => 'Forbidden', 404 => 'Not Found', 405 => 'Method Not Allowed', 406 => 'Not Acceptable', 407 => 'Proxy Authentication Required', 408 => 'Request Time-out', 409 => 'Conflict', 410 => 'Gone', 411 => 'Length Required', 412 => 'Precondition Failed', 413 => 'Request Entity Too Large', 414 => 'Request-URI Too Large', 415 => 'Unsupported Media Type', 416 => 'Requested range not satisfiable', 417 => 'Expectation Failed',
    500 => 'Internal Server Error', 501 => 'Not Implemented', 502 => 'Bad Gateway', 503 => 'Service Unavailable', 504 => 'Gateway Time-out', 505 => 'HTTP Version not supported'
  );
  // RFC 2616 states that all unknown HTTP codes must be treated the same as the
  // base code in their class.
  if (!isset($responses[$code])) {
    $code = floor($code / 100) * 100;
  }

  switch ($code) {
    case 200: // OK
    case 304: // Not modified
      break;
    case 301: // Moved permanently
    case 302: // Moved temporarily
    case 307: // Moved temporarily
      $location = $result->headers['Location'];

      if ($retry) {
        $result = drupal_http_request($result->headers['Location'], $headers, $method, $data, --$retry);
        $result->redirect_code = $result->code;
      }
      $result->redirect_url = $location;

      break;
    default:
      $result->error = $text;
  }

  $result->code = $code;
  return $result;
}

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function _fix_gpc_magic(&$item) {
  if (is_array($item)) {
    array_walk($item, '_fix_gpc_magic');
  }
  else {
    $item = stripslashes($item);
  }
}