iflrandevu/src/application/helpers/general_helper.php

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/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * Easy!Appointments - Open Source Web Scheduler
 *
 * @package     EasyAppointments
 * @author      A.Tselegidis <alextselegidis@gmail.com>
 * @copyright   Copyright (c) 2013 - 2018, Alex Tselegidis
 * @license     http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0 - GPLv3
 * @link        http://easyappointments.org
 * @since       v1.0.0
 * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- */

/**
 * Get date in RFC3339
 * For example used in XML/Atom
 *
 * @link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5671433/php-time-to-google-calendar-dates-time-format
 *
 * @param integer $timestamp
 * @return string date in RFC3339
 * @author Boris Korobkov
 */
function date3339($timestamp = 0)
{

    if ( ! $timestamp)
    {
        $timestamp = time();
    }
    $date = date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s', $timestamp);

    $matches = [];
    if (preg_match('/^([\-+])(\d{2})(\d{2})$/', date('O', $timestamp), $matches))
    {
        $date .= $matches[1] . $matches[2] . ':' . $matches[3];
    }
    else
    {
        $date .= 'Z';
    }
    return $date;
}

/**
 * Generate a hash of password string.
 *
 * For user security, all system passwords are stored in hash string into the database. Use
 * this method to produce the hashed password.
 *
 * @param string $salt Salt value for current user. This value is stored on the database and
 * is used when generating the password hash.
 * @param string $password Given string password.
 * @return string Returns the hash string of the given password.
 */
function hash_password($salt, $password)
{
    $half = (int)(strlen($salt) / 2);
    $hash = hash('sha256', substr($salt, 0, $half) . $password . substr($salt, $half));

    for ($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++)
    {
        $hash = hash('sha256', $hash);
    }

    return $hash;
}

/**
 * Generate a new password salt.
 *
 * This method will not check if the salt is unique in database. This must be done
 * from the calling procedure.
 *
 * @return string Returns a salt string.
 */
function generate_salt()
{
    $max_length = 100;
    $salt = hash('sha256', (uniqid(rand(), TRUE)));
    return substr($salt, 0, $max_length);
}

/**
 * This method generates a random string.
 *
 * @param int $length (OPTIONAL = 10) The length of the generated string.
 * @return string Returns the randomly generated string.
 * @link http://stackoverflow.com/a/4356295/1718162
 */
function generate_random_string($length = 10)
{
    $characters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
    $random_string = '';
    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)
    {
        $random_string .= $characters[rand(0, strlen($characters) - 1)];
    }
    return $random_string;
}