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<?php
/* For licensing terms, see /license.txt */

/**
 * This is the text library for Chamilo.
 * It is loaded during the global initialization,
 * so the functions below are available everywhere.
 */
define('EXERCISE_NUMBER_OF_DECIMALS', 2);

/* XML processing functions */

// A regular expression for accessing declared encoding within xml-formatted text.
// Published by Steve Minutillo,
// http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2004/6/17/php-xml-and-character-encodings-a-tale-of-sadness-rage-and-data-loss/
define('_PCRE_XML_ENCODING', '/<\?xml.*encoding=[\'"](.*?)[\'"].*\?>/m');

/**
 * This function strips all html-tags found in the input string and outputs a pure text.
 * Mostly, the function is to be used before language or encoding detection of the input string.
 *
 * @param string $string the input string with html-tags to be converted to plain text
 *
 * @return string the returned plain text as a result
 */
function api_html_to_text($string)
{
    // These purifications have been found experimentally, for nice looking output.
    $string = preg_replace('/<br[^>]*>/i', "\n", $string);
    $string = preg_replace('/<\/?(div|p|h[1-6]|table|ol|ul|blockquote)[^>]*>/i', "\n", $string);
    $string = preg_replace('/<\/(tr|li)[^>]*>/i', "\n", $string);
    $string = preg_replace('/<\/(td|th)[^>]*>/i', "\t", $string);

    $string = strip_tags($string);

    // Line endings unification and cleaning.
    $string = str_replace(["\r\n", "\n\r", "\r"], "\n", $string);
    $string = preg_replace('/\s*\n/', "\n", $string);
    $string = preg_replace('/\n+/', "\n", $string);

    return trim($string);
}

/**
 * Detects encoding of html-formatted text.
 *
 * @param string $string the input html-formatted text
 *
 * @return string returns the detected encoding
 */
function api_detect_encoding_html($string)
{
    if (@preg_match('/<head.*(<meta[^>]*content=[^>]*>).*<\/head>/si', $string, $matches)) {
        if (@preg_match('/<meta[^>]*charset=(.*)["\';][^>]*>/si', $matches[1], $matches)) {
            return api_refine_encoding_id(trim($matches[1]));
        }
    }

    return api_detect_encoding(api_html_to_text($string));
}

/**
 * Converts the text of a html-document to a given encoding, the meta-tag is changed accordingly.
 *
 * @param string $string the input full-html document
 * @param string                        the new encoding value to be set
 */
function api_set_encoding_html(&$string, $encoding)
{
    $old_encoding = api_detect_encoding_html($string);
    if (@preg_match('/(.*<head.*)(<meta[^>]*content=[^>]*>)(.*<\/head>.*)/si', $string, $matches)) {
        $meta = $matches[2];
        if (@preg_match("/(<meta[^>]*charset=)(.*)([\"';][^>]*>)/si", $meta, $matches1)) {
            $meta = $matches1[1].$encoding.$matches1[3];
            $string = $matches[1].$meta.$matches[3];
        } else {
            $string = $matches[1].'<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset='.$encoding.'"/>'.$matches[3];
        }
    } else {
        $count = 1;
        if (false !== strpos('</head>', strtolower($string))) {
            $string = str_ireplace(
                '</head>',
                '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset='.$encoding.'"/></head>',
                $string,
                $count
            );
        } else {
            $string = str_ireplace(
                '<body>',
                '<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset='.$encoding.'"/></head><body>',
                $string,
                $count
            );
        }
    }
    $string = api_convert_encoding($string, $encoding, $old_encoding);
}

/**
 * Returns the title of a html document.
 *
 * @param string $string          the contents of the input document
 * @param string $output_encoding The encoding of the retrieved title.
 *                                If the value is not set, the system encoding is assumed.
 * @param string $input_encoding  The encoding of the input document. If the value is not set, it is detected.
 *
 * @return string the retrieved title, html-entities and extra-whitespace between the words are cleaned
 */
function api_get_title_html(&$string, $output_encoding = null, $input_encoding = null)
{
    if (@preg_match('/<head.+<title[^>]*>(.*)<\/title>/msi', $string, $matches)) {
        if (empty($output_encoding)) {
            $output_encoding = api_get_system_encoding();
        }
        if (empty($input_encoding)) {
            $input_encoding = api_detect_encoding_html($string);
        }

        return trim(
            @preg_replace(
                '/\s+/',
                ' ',
                api_html_entity_decode(
                    api_convert_encoding($matches[1], $output_encoding, $input_encoding),
                    ENT_QUOTES,
                    $output_encoding
                )
            )
        );
    }

    return '';
}

/**
 * Detects encoding of xml-formatted text.
 *
 * @param string $string           the input xml-formatted text
 * @param string $default_encoding This is the default encoding to be returned
 *                                 if there is no way the xml-text's encoding to be detected.
 *                                 If it not spesified, the system encoding is assumed then.
 *
 * @return string returns the detected encoding
 *
 * @todo The second parameter is to be eliminated. See api_detect_encoding_html().
 */
function api_detect_encoding_xml($string, $default_encoding = null)
{
    if (preg_match(_PCRE_XML_ENCODING, $string, $matches)) {
        return api_refine_encoding_id($matches[1]);
    }
    if (api_is_valid_utf8($string)) {
        return 'UTF-8';
    }
    if (empty($default_encoding)) {
        $default_encoding = _api_mb_internal_encoding();
    }

    return api_refine_encoding_id($default_encoding);
}

/**
 * Converts character encoding of a xml-formatted text.
 * If inside the text the encoding is declared, it is modified accordingly.
 *
 * @param string $string        the text being converted
 * @param string $to_encoding   the encoding that text is being converted to
 * @param string $from_encoding (optional)  The encoding that text is being converted from.
 *                              If it is omited, it is tried to be detected then.
 *
 * @return string returns the converted xml-text
 */
function api_convert_encoding_xml($string, $to_encoding, $from_encoding = null)
{
    return _api_convert_encoding_xml($string, $to_encoding, $from_encoding);
}

/**
 * Converts character encoding of a xml-formatted text into UTF-8.
 * If inside the text the encoding is declared, it is set to UTF-8.
 *
 * @param string $string        the text being converted
 * @param string $from_encoding (optional)  The encoding that text is being converted from.
 *                              If it is omited, it is tried to be detected then.
 *
 * @return string returns the converted xml-text
 */
function api_utf8_encode_xml($string, $from_encoding = null)
{
    return _api_convert_encoding_xml($string, 'UTF-8', $from_encoding);
}

/**
 * Converts character encoding of a xml-formatted text from UTF-8 into a specified encoding.
 * If inside the text the encoding is declared, it is modified accordingly.
 *
 * @param string $string      the text being converted
 * @param string $to_encoding (optional)    The encoding that text is being converted to.
 *                            If it is omitted, the platform character set is assumed.
 *
 * @return string returns the converted xml-text
 */
function api_utf8_decode_xml($string, $to_encoding = 'UTF-8')
{
    return _api_convert_encoding_xml($string, $to_encoding, 'UTF-8');
}

/**
 * Converts character encoding of a xml-formatted text.
 * If inside the text the encoding is declared, it is modified accordingly.
 *
 * @param string $string        the text being converted
 * @param string $to_encoding   the encoding that text is being converted to
 * @param string $from_encoding (optional)  The encoding that text is being converted from.
 *                              If the value is empty, it is tried to be detected then.
 *
 * @return string returns the converted xml-text
 */
function _api_convert_encoding_xml(&$string, $to_encoding, $from_encoding)
{
    if (empty($from_encoding)) {
        $from_encoding = api_detect_encoding_xml($string);
    }
    $to_encoding = api_refine_encoding_id($to_encoding);
    if (!preg_match('/<\?xml.*\?>/m', $string, $matches)) {
        return api_convert_encoding(
            '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.$to_encoding.'"?>'."\n".$string,
            $to_encoding,
            $from_encoding
        );
    }
    if (!preg_match(_PCRE_XML_ENCODING, $string)) {
        if (false !== strpos($matches[0], 'standalone')) {
            // The encoding option should precede the standalone option,
            // othewise DOMDocument fails to load the document.
            $replace = str_replace('standalone', ' encoding="'.$to_encoding.'" standalone', $matches[0]);
        } else {
            $replace = str_replace('?>', ' encoding="'.$to_encoding.'"?>', $matches[0]);
        }

        return api_convert_encoding(str_replace($matches[0], $replace, $string), $to_encoding, $from_encoding);
    }
    global $_api_encoding;
    $_api_encoding = api_refine_encoding_id($to_encoding);

    return api_convert_encoding(
        preg_replace_callback(
            _PCRE_XML_ENCODING,
            '_api_convert_encoding_xml_callback',
            $string
        ),
        $to_encoding,
        $from_encoding
    );
}

/**
 * A callback for serving the function _api_convert_encoding_xml().
 *
 * @param array $matches input array of matches corresponding to the xml-declaration
 *
 * @return string returns the xml-declaration with modified encoding
 */
function _api_convert_encoding_xml_callback($matches)
{
    global $_api_encoding;

    return str_replace($matches[1], $_api_encoding, $matches[0]);
}

/* Functions for supporting ASCIIMathML mathematical formulas and ASCIIsvg maathematical graphics */

/**
 * Dectects ASCIIMathML formula presence within a given html text.
 *
 * @param string $html the input html text
 *
 * @return bool returns TRUE when there is a formula found or FALSE otherwise
 */
function api_contains_asciimathml($html)
{
    if (!preg_match_all('/<span[^>]*class\s*=\s*[\'"](.*?)[\'"][^>]*>/mi', $html, $matches)) {
        return false;
    }
    foreach ($matches[1] as $string) {
        $string = ' '.str_replace(',', ' ', $string).' ';
        if (preg_match('/\sAM\s/m', $string)) {
            return true;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

/**
 * Dectects ASCIIsvg graphics presence within a given html text.
 *
 * @param string $html the input html text
 *
 * @return bool returns TRUE when there is a graph found or FALSE otherwise
 */
function api_contains_asciisvg($html)
{
    if (!preg_match_all('/<embed([^>]*?)>/mi', $html, $matches)) {
        return false;
    }
    foreach ($matches[1] as $string) {
        $string = ' '.str_replace(',', ' ', $string).' ';
        if (preg_match('/sscr\s*=\s*[\'"](.*?)[\'"]/m', $string)) {
            return true;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

/**
 * Convers a string from camel case into underscore.
 * Works correctly with ASCII strings only, implementation for human-language strings is not necessary.
 *
 * @param string $string The input string (ASCII)
 *
 * @return string The converted result string
 */
function api_camel_case_to_underscore($string)
{
    return strtolower(preg_replace('/([a-z])([A-Z])/', "$1_$2", $string));
}

/**
 * Converts a string with underscores into camel case.
 * Works correctly with ASCII strings only, implementation for human-language strings is not necessary.
 *
 * @param string $string                The input string (ASCII)
 * @param bool   $capitalise_first_char (optional)
 *                                      If true (default), the function capitalises the first char in the result string
 *
 * @return string The converted result string
 */
function api_underscore_to_camel_case($string, $capitalise_first_char = true)
{
    if ($capitalise_first_char) {
        $string = ucfirst($string);
    }

    return preg_replace_callback('/_([a-z])/', '_api_camelize', $string);
}

// A function for internal use, only for this library.
function _api_camelize($match)
{
    return strtoupper($match[1]);
}

/**
 * Truncates a string.
 *
 * @author Brouckaert Olivier
 *
 * @param string $text     the text to truncate
 * @param int    $length   The approximate desired length. The length of the suffix below is to be added to
 *                         have the total length of the result string.
 * @param string $suffix   a suffix to be added as a replacement
 * @param string $encoding (optional)   The encoding to be used. If it is omitted,
 *                         the platform character set will be used by default.
 * @param bool   $middle   if this parameter is true, truncation is done in the middle of the string
 *
 * @return string truncated string, decorated with the given suffix (replacement)
 */
function api_trunc_str($text, $length = 30, $suffix = '...', $middle = false, $encoding = null)
{
    if (empty($encoding)) {
        $encoding = api_get_system_encoding();
    }
    $text_length = api_strlen($text, $encoding);
    if ($text_length <= $length) {
        return $text;
    }
    if ($middle) {
        return rtrim(
            api_substr(
                $text,
                0,
                round($length / 2),
                $encoding
            )
        ).
        $suffix.
        ltrim(
            api_substr(
                $text,
                -round($length / 2),
                $text_length,
                $encoding
            )
        );
    }

    return rtrim(api_substr($text, 0, $length, $encoding)).$suffix;
}

/**
 * Replace tags with a space in a text.
 * If $in_double_quote_replace, replace " with '' (for HTML attribute purpose, for exemple).
 *
 * @return string
 *
 * @author hubert borderiou
 */
function api_remove_tags_with_space($in_html, $in_double_quote_replace = true)
{
    $out_res = $in_html;
    if ($in_double_quote_replace) {
        $out_res = str_replace('"', "''", $out_res);
    }
    // avoid text stuck together when tags are removed, adding a space after >
    $out_res = str_replace(">", "> ", $out_res);
    $out_res = strip_tags($out_res);

    return $out_res;
}

/**
 * @author Rewritten by Nathan Codding - Feb 6, 2001.
 *         completed by Hugues Peeters - July 22, 2002
 *
 * Actually this function is taken from the PHP BB 1.4 script
 * - Goes through the given string, and replaces xxxx://yyyy with an HTML <a> tag linking
 *     to that URL
 * - Goes through the given string, and replaces www.xxxx.yyyy[zzzz] with an HTML <a> tag linking
 *     to http://www.xxxx.yyyy[/zzzz]
 * - Goes through the given string, and replaces xxxx@yyyy with an HTML mailto: tag linking
 *        to that email address
 * - Only matches these 2 patterns either after a space, or at the beginning of a line
 *
 * Notes: the email one might get annoying - it's easy to make it more restrictive, though.. maybe
 * have it require something like xxxx@yyyy.zzzz or such. We'll see.
 */

/**
 * Callback to convert URI match to HTML A element.
 *
 * This function was backported from 2.5.0 to 2.3.2. Regex callback for {@link * make_clickable()}.
 *
 * @since Wordpress 2.3.2
 *
 * @param array $matches single Regex Match
 *
 * @return string HTML A element with URI address
 */
function _make_url_clickable_cb($matches)
{
    $url = $matches[2];

    if (')' == $matches[3] && strpos($url, '(')) {
        // If the trailing character is a closing parethesis, and the URL has an opening
        // parenthesis in it, add the closing parenthesis to the URL.
        // Then we can let the parenthesis balancer do its thing below.
        $url .= $matches[3];
        $suffix = '';
    } else {
        $suffix = $matches[3];
    }

    // Include parentheses in the URL only if paired
    while (substr_count($url, '(') < substr_count($url, ')')) {
        $suffix = strrchr($url, ')').$suffix;
        $url = substr($url, 0, strrpos($url, ')'));
    }

    $url = esc_url($url);
    if (empty($url)) {
        return $matches[0];
    }

    return $matches[1]."<a href=\"$url\" rel=\"nofollow\">$url</a>".$suffix;
}

/**
 * Checks and cleans a URL.
 *
 * A number of characters are removed from the URL. If the URL is for displaying
 * (the default behaviour) ampersands are also replaced. The 'clean_url' filter
 * is applied to the returned cleaned URL.
 *
 * @since wordpress 2.8.0
 *
 * @uses \wp_kses_bad_protocol() To only permit protocols in the URL set
 *        via $protocols or the common ones set in the function.
 *
 * @param string $url       the URL to be cleaned
 * @param array  $protocols Optional. An array of acceptable protocols.
 *                          Defaults to 'http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'mailto', 'news', 'irc', 'gopher',
 *                          'nntp', 'feed', 'telnet', 'mms', 'rtsp', 'svn' if not set.
 * @param string $_context  Private. Use esc_url_raw() for database usage.
 *
 * @return string the cleaned $url after the 'clean_url' filter is applied
 */
function esc_url($url, $protocols = null, $_context = 'display')
{
    //$original_url = $url;
    if ('' == $url) {
        return $url;
    }
    $url = preg_replace('|[^a-z0-9-~+_.?#=!&;,/:%@$\|*\'()\\x80-\\xff]|i', '', $url);
    $strip = ['%0d', '%0a', '%0D', '%0A'];
    $url = _deep_replace($strip, $url);
    $url = str_replace(';//', '://', $url);
    /* If the URL doesn't appear to contain a scheme, we
     * presume it needs http:// appended (unless a relative
     * link starting with /, # or ? or a php file).
     */
    if (false === strpos($url, ':') && !in_array($url[0], ['/', '#', '?']) &&
        !preg_match('/^[a-z0-9-]+?\.php/i', $url)) {
        $url = 'http://'.$url;
    }

    return Security::remove_XSS($url);
}

/**
 * Perform a deep string replace operation to ensure the values in $search are no longer present.
 *
 * Repeats the replacement operation until it no longer replaces anything so as to remove "nested" values
 * e.g. $subject = '%0%0%0DDD', $search ='%0D', $result ='' rather than the '%0%0DD' that
 * str_replace would return
 *
 * @since wordpress  2.8.1
 *
 * @param string|array $search  The value being searched for, otherwise known as the needle.
 *                              An array may be used to designate multiple needles.
 * @param string       $subject the string being searched and replaced on, otherwise known as the haystack
 *
 * @return string the string with the replaced svalues
 */
function _deep_replace($search, $subject)
{
    $subject = (string) $subject;

    $count = 1;
    while ($count) {
        $subject = str_replace($search, '', $subject, $count);
    }

    return $subject;
}

/**
 * Callback to convert URL match to HTML A element.
 *
 * This function was backported from 2.5.0 to 2.3.2. Regex callback for {@link * make_clickable()}.
 *
 * @since wordpress  2.3.2
 *
 * @param array $matches single Regex Match
 *
 * @return string HTML A element with URL address
 */
function _make_web_ftp_clickable_cb($matches)
{
    $ret = '';
    $dest = $matches[2];
    $dest = 'http://'.$dest;
    $dest = esc_url($dest);
    if (empty($dest)) {
        return $matches[0];
    }

    // removed trailing [.,;:)] from URL
    if (true === in_array(substr($dest, -1), ['.', ',', ';', ':', ')'])) {
        $ret = substr($dest, -1);
        $dest = substr($dest, 0, strlen($dest) - 1);
    }

    return $matches[1]."<a href=\"$dest\" rel=\"nofollow\">$dest</a>$ret";
}

/**
 * This functions cuts a paragraph
 * i.e cut('Merry Xmas from Lima',13) = "Merry Xmas fr...".
 *
 * @param string    The text to "cut"
 * @param int       Count of chars
 * @param bool      Whether to embed in a <span title="...">...</span>
 * */
function cut($text, $maxchar, $embed = false): string
{
    if (api_strlen($text) > $maxchar) {
        if ($embed) {
            return '<p title="'.$text.'">'.api_substr($text, 0, $maxchar).'...</p>';
        }

        return api_substr($text, 0, $maxchar).' ...';
    }

    return $text;
}

/**
 * Show a number as only integers if no decimals, but will show 2 decimals if exist.
 *
 * @param mixed     Number to convert
 * @param int       Decimal points 0=never, 1=if needed, 2=always
 * @param string $decimalPoint
 * @param string $thousandsSeparator
 *
 * @return mixed An integer or a float depends on the parameter
 */
function float_format($number, $flag = 1, $decimalPoint = '.', $thousandsSeparator = ',')
{
    $flag = (int) $flag;

    if (is_numeric($number)) {
        if (!$number) {
            $result = (2 == $flag ? '0.'.str_repeat('0', EXERCISE_NUMBER_OF_DECIMALS) : '0');
        } else {
            if (floor($number) == $number) {
                $result = number_format(
                    $number,
                    (2 == $flag ? EXERCISE_NUMBER_OF_DECIMALS : 0),
                    $decimalPoint,
                    $thousandsSeparator
                );
            } else {
                $result = number_format(
                    round($number, 2),
                    (0 == $flag ? 0 : EXERCISE_NUMBER_OF_DECIMALS),
                    $decimalPoint,
                    $thousandsSeparator
                );
            }
        }

        return $result;
    }
}

// TODO: To be checked for correct timezone management.
/**
 * Function to obtain last week timestamps.
 *
 * @return array Times for every day inside week
 */
function get_last_week()
{
    $week = date('W');
    $year = date('Y');

    $lastweek = $week - 1;
    if (0 == $lastweek) {
        $week = 52;
        $year--;
    }

    $lastweek = sprintf("%02d", $lastweek);
    $arrdays = [];
    for ($i = 1; $i <= 7; $i++) {
        $arrdays[] = strtotime("$year"."W$lastweek"."$i");
    }

    return $arrdays;
}

/**
 * Gets the week from a day.
 *
 * @param   string   Date in UTC (2010-01-01 12:12:12)
 *
 * @return int Returns an integer with the week number of the year
 */
function get_week_from_day($date)
{
    if (!empty($date)) {
        $time = api_strtotime($date, 'UTC');

        return date('W', $time);
    }

    return date('W');
}

/**
 * This function splits the string into words and then joins them back together again one by one.
 * Example: "Test example of a long string"
 * substrwords(5) = Test ... *.
 *
 * @param $text string
 * @param $maxchar int the max number of character
 * @param $end string how the string will be ended
 *
 * @return string
 */
function substrwords(string $text, int $maxchar, string $end = '...'): string
{
    if (strlen($text) > $maxchar) {
        $words = explode(" ", $text);
        $output = '';
        $i = 0;
        while (1) {
            $length = (strlen($output) + strlen($words[$i]));
            if ($length > $maxchar) {
                break;
            } else {
                $output = $output." ".$words[$i];
                $i++;
            }
        }
    } else {
        $output = $text;

        return $output;
    }

    return $output.$end;
}

function implode_with_key($glue, $array)
{
    if (!empty($array)) {
        $string = '';
        foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
            if (empty($value)) {
                $value = 'null';
            }
            $string .= $key." : ".$value." $glue ";
        }

        return $string;
    }

    return '';
}

/**
 * Transform the file size in a human readable format.
 *
 * @param int $file_size Size of the file in bytes
 *
 * @return string A human readable representation of the file size
 */
function format_file_size($file_size)
{
    $file_size = (int) $file_size;
    if ($file_size >= 1073741824) {
        $file_size = (round($file_size / 1073741824 * 100) / 100).'G';
    } elseif ($file_size >= 1048576) {
        $file_size = (round($file_size / 1048576 * 100) / 100).'M';
    } elseif ($file_size >= 1024) {
        $file_size = (round($file_size / 1024 * 100) / 100).'k';
    } else {
        $file_size = $file_size.'B';
    }

    return $file_size;
}

/**
 * Converts an string CLEANYO[admin][amann,acostea]
 * into an array:.
 *
 * array(
 *  CLEANYO
 *  admin
 *  amann,acostea
 * )
 *
 * @param $array
 *
 * @return array
 */
function bracketsToArray($array)
{
    return preg_split('/[\[\]]+/', $array, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
}

/**
 * @param string $string
 * @param bool   $capitalizeFirstCharacter
 *
 * @return mixed
 */
function underScoreToCamelCase($string, $capitalizeFirstCharacter = true)
{
    $str = str_replace(' ', '', ucwords(str_replace('_', ' ', $string)));

    if (!$capitalizeFirstCharacter) {
        $str[0] = strtolower($str[0]);
    }

    return $str;
}

/**
 * @param string $value
 */
function trim_value(&$value)
{
    $value = trim($value);
}

/**
 * Strips only the given tags in the given HTML string.
 *
 * @param string $html
 * @param array  $tags
 *
 * @return string
 */
function strip_tags_blacklist($html, $tags)
{
    foreach ($tags as $tag) {
        $regex = '#<\s*'.$tag.'[^>]*>.*?<\s*/\s*'.$tag.'>#msi';
        $html = preg_replace($regex, '', $html);
    }

    return $html;
}

/**
 * Remove tags from HTML anf return the $in_number_char first non-HTML char
 * Postfix the text with "..." if it has been truncated.
 *
 * @param string $text
 * @param int    $number
 *
 * @return string
 *
 * @author hubert borderiou
 */
function api_get_short_text_from_html($text, $number)
{
    // Delete script and style tags
    $text = preg_replace('/(<(script|style)\b[^>]*>).*?(<\/\2>)/is', "$1$3", $text);
    $text = api_html_entity_decode($text);
    $out_res = api_remove_tags_with_space($text, false);
    $postfix = "...";
    if (strlen($out_res) > $number) {
        $out_res = substr($out_res, 0, $number).$postfix;
    }

    return $out_res;
}

/**
 * Filter a multi-language HTML string (for the multi-language HTML
 * feature) into the given language (strip the rest).
 *
 * @param string $htmlString The HTML string to "translate".
 *                           Usually <p><span lang="en">Some string</span></p><p><span lang="fr">Une chaƮne</span></p>
 * @param string $language   The language in which we want to get the
 *
 * @return string The filtered string in the given language, or the full string if no translated string was identified
 *
 *@throws Exception
 */
function api_get_filtered_multilingual_HTML_string($htmlString, $language = null)
{
    if ('false' === api_get_setting('editor.translate_html')) {
        return $htmlString;
    }
    $userInfo = api_get_user_info();
    $languageId = 0;
    if (!empty($language)) {
        $languageId = api_get_language_id($language);
    } elseif (!empty($userInfo['language'])) {
        $languageId = api_get_language_id($userInfo['language']);
    }
    $languageInfo = api_get_language_info($languageId);
    $isoCode = 'en';

    if (!empty($languageInfo)) {
        $isoCode = $languageInfo['isocode'];
    }

    // Split HTML in the separate language strings
    // Note: some strings might look like <p><span ..>...</span></p> but others might be like combine 2 <span> in 1 <p>
    if (!preg_match('/<span.*?lang="(\w\w)">/is', $htmlString)) {
        return $htmlString;
    }
    $matches = [];
    preg_match_all('/<span.*?lang="(\w\w)">(.*?)<\/span>/is', $htmlString, $matches);
    if (!empty($matches)) {
        // matches[0] are the full string
        // matches[1] are the languages
        // matches[2] are the strings
        foreach ($matches[1] as $id => $match) {
            if ($match == $isoCode) {
                return $matches[2][$id];
            }
        }
        // Could find the pattern but could not find our language. Return the first language found.
        return $matches[2][0];
    }
    // Could not find pattern. Just return the whole string. We shouldn't get here.
    return $htmlString;
}