PerchUtil

The PerchSystem class holds a number of utility methods that enables access to utility functions. All methods are called statically, e.g.

PerchUtil::urlify('Some String');

Debugging

Enable debug mode to use the below debugging methods.

Method	Purpose
debug	Add a message (string, array or object) to the debug output.
mark	Add a highlighted message to the debug output.
output_debug	Output the debug messages.

Method	Purpose
redirect	Perform an HTTP 30x redirect to the given URL
hold_redirects	Hold redirects. Useful for troubleshooting.

Method	Purpose
http_get_request	Make a HTTP get request.
http_post_request	Make a HTTP post request.

Method	Purpose
file_extension	Get the file extension
file_path	Make a file path OS-safe by swapping out the correct `DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR`
get_mime_type	Get the file MIME type

Method	Purpose
urlify	Convert a string to a basic URL-safe version.
html	Convert special characters in a string to HTML entities.
is_valid_email	Check whether a given string is a valid email address.
is_assoc	Check whether an array is associative.
get_client_ip	Get the client IP address