What Is FCLIB?

FCLIB is an open-source php library. It is basically a collection of functions I've needed in various projects over the years where I made the extra step to make them generic in the hope they may be needed in another project in future.In other words it is similar to Pear, but not so organized. Naturally, given that much of my work is on Japanese websites and databases, there are some useful Japanese-related functions. The license is BSD-like (with no advertising clause) so no restrictions on commercial use.

FCLIB.0.4: Download Page

2006-01-11: Updated: 0.4.16. Eight months since the last release and quite a lot of new functions, classes and files:

• quickform_rules.inc, fclib_quickform_rules.js are for error-checking input (primarily for checking ascii-only, only Japanese UTF8 (no Chinese, Korean, etc.), katakana only, etc.). PHP and Javascript versions. As the name suggests they were designed for Pear::QuickForm, but should be generally useful.
• Smarty extensions (in smarty subdirectory): function.explode.php (wrapper for php function of same name), modifier.escape_csv.php (CSV quoting and escaping), db_list_helper.inc (various utility functions to help get records from a DB for use in smarty).
• JMDict (Free Japanese-English dictionary) related: jmdict_parser.inc, jmdict_parser2.inc, jmnedict_parser2.inc, jmdict.inc. Use the parser2.inc functions to import the JMDict files into an SQL table and use jmdict.inc to read from those tables. See test/jm*_import2.inc for example usage scripts.
• Chasen (Japanese Morphological Analyzer) wrapper: chasen.inc contains functions to break Japanese strings into words (fclib_split_japanese_into_words_chasen_latin is best function to try first), convert Japanese to katakana (fclib_chasen_get_yomigana) and some functions to prepare word lists in ipadic format (see test/chasen_ipadic_prepare*.inc for example usage scripts). Noun.ipadic_fclib.dic is my list of ipadic extensions (see comments in top of chasen.inc for how to integrate this).
• WordNet (English Semantic Network) wrapper: wordnet.inc.
• sql_search.inc:function for free text search of database table.
• utf8.inc: New functions: uniord(), fclib_utf8_tidyup_yomigana(), fclib_katakana_to_hepburn_romaji(). Existing functions not touched so backwards-compatible.
• socket_server.inc: Allow control over amount of data read from clients in one go (backwards compatible)
• Comment fixes: namazu.inc, sql_search.inc (backwards-compatible)

Note: noun_relations_query.inc, noun_search_result.inc are experimental code and the next release may not be backwards compatible to them, so please ignore them.

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Note: Since fclib.0.4.8 all new functions, and new files, are documented inline (for use with phpDocumentor), and the HTML documentation is no longer being maintained. Check the source (or run phpDocumentor on the files).

Unzip into the directory of your choice (that will be the $FCLIB_PATH you'll set at the top of every file). E.g. "/web/devel/fclib.0.4/". On Windows something like "C:\fclib.0.4\".

This site is at http://www.dcook.org/software/fclib/ and mirrored to http://www.flyingcolor.com/fclib/.

Older versions

2005-05-11: Updated: 0.4.15. Bug fixes and small improvements to new files added in 0.4.13 and 0.4.14.
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2005-03-07: Update: 0.4.14. Bug fixes and improvements in the files that were new in 0.4.13: socket_server.inc, price_server.inc, price_range.inc, price_retriever.inc; new function in parse_text_data.inc. One new file: data_server.inc.

2005-02--03: Update: 0.4.13. New files: socket_server.inc, price_server.inc, price_range.inc, price_retriever.inc.
Modified files: xml_navigator.inc (added init_from_string()); veritrans.inc (Added cc_bad_expiry as possible return result of fclib_veritrans_send_order(); Added support for void and handling new postauth error message; Added support for action codes 107 and 200); html.inc (Added support for multi and javascript to fclib_html_array_as_select);
Bug fixes: database_search_form.inc (when using NE with non-blank string).

All is backwards-compatible with 0.4.12 and earlier, with the exception of some veritrans.inc code (because a new error return value has been added).

2004-06-07/14/24: Update: 0.4.12c. New files: utf8.inc (UTF8 equivalent of chr(), and functions to help parsing XML entities); pear_xml_unserializer.inc (customized version of Pear's XML/Unserializer.php that doesn't lose entities and better handles when you have cdata mixed with tags); pear_xml_serializer.inc (complement of unserializer); xml_navigator.inc (classes to help use the array returned by the unserializer class; perhaps useful for more general associative arrays). Modified files: mail_ex.inc (updated list of mobile email addresses), parse_text_data.inc (bug fix for when parsing csv data with quoted fields), text_data_import.inc (minor improvement in efficiency). (12b and 12c releases were just bug fixes)
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2004-03-17: Update: 0.4.11. delivery_scheduler.inc is new, and the following files have changed: database_search_form.inc (next/prev handling improved); extended_field_interface.inc (added option to hide delete buttons on edit fields form); veritrans.inc (support for postauth) and veritrans_order.pl (request-type included in log-file written to processed directory).

2003-10-30: Update: 0.4.10. Added new features to database_search_form (backwards-compatible, but there are new text strings, so you may need to do some translation) and veritrans files (NB. default changed from authcapture to authonly - see docs).

2003-09-18: Update: 0.4.9c. Bug fixes for 0.4.9.

2003-08-18: Update: 0.4.9b. Bug fixes for 0.4.9.

2003-08-11: Update: 0.4.9. Added sendmail.all.inc, which unifies sendmail.sendmail.inc (and exim version) and sendmail.smtp.inc. Added veritrans.inc/veritrans.pl for credit card verification (Japanese company). Also changes to extended_field_interface.inc (bug fix), mail.inc (bug fix, plus use of new sendmail files), mail_bounce.inc (added fclib_bounce_email_count), mail_ex.inc (bug fixes), database_search_form.inc (bug fix), sql.inc (added fclib_pear_db_error).

2003-05-25: Update: 0.4.8. Additions/Changes to: namazu.inc, mail.inc, error_check.inc, parse_text_data.inc, array.inc, make_text_data.inc, License.txt, text_export.inc, sql.inc, hidden.inc, mail_bounce.inc, mail_headers.inc, dirs.inc, table_viewer.inc, sendmail.inc, sendmail.sendmail.inc, sql_filter.inc; New files: database_search_form.inc, text_data_import.inc, extended_field_interface.inc, gettext.inc, database_field_information.inc, merge_html_files.inc (commandline utility), database_table_structure.inc.

Many of the changed files are just to make it work quietly with error_reporting(E_ALL), and with register_globals=off. By implication, the files not listed above may give warnings if running with E_ALL.

2002-11-01: Update: 0.4.7. Minor update: webscan bugfix and extra documentation; added copyright comment to top of every fclib file.

2002-10-05: Update: 0.4.6. Added namazu support, other minor tidyup, moved webscan files into release version.

(older versions than this are not stored on this mirror server).