1 common.inc | backdrop_explode_tags($tags) |
Explodes a string of tags into an array.
See also
File
- core/
includes/ common.inc, line 8738 - Common functions that many Backdrop modules will need to reference.
Code
function backdrop_explode_tags($tags) {
if (empty($tags)) {
return array();
}
// This regexp allows the following types of user input:
// this, "somecompany, llc", "and ""this"" w,o.rks", foo bar
$regexp = '%(?:^|,\ *)("(?>[^"]*)(?>""[^"]* )*"|(?: [^",]*))%x';
preg_match_all($regexp, $tags, $matches);
$typed_tags = array_unique($matches[1]);
$tags = array();
foreach ($typed_tags as $tag) {
// If a user has escaped a term (to demonstrate that it is a group,
// or includes a comma or quote character), we remove the escape
// formatting so to save the term into the database as the user intends.
$tag = trim(str_replace('""', '"', preg_replace('/^"(.*)"$/', '\1', $tag)));
if ($tag != "") {
$tags[] = $tag;
}
}
return $tags;
}