Helpers

Overview

Helpers are functions that can be used in any part of the application. They are globally available and can be used anywhere in the application. The project has a helpers.php file in the app directory. This file contains all the helper functions that are used in the application.

List of Helpers

Function Name	Description
googleRecaptchaScript	Embeds Google reCAPTCHA script if captcha is enabled.
checked	Returns 'checked' if two values are equal.
selected	Returns 'selected' if two values are equal.
isOtherTitleSelected	Returns 'selected' if a key is not present in the search array.
removeNewlines	Removes extra whitespaces and newlines from a string.
isApp	Checks if a cookie named 'minimalTheme' exists.
isEU	Checks if the core region is not UK.
__d	Translates a key and returns the default value if the translation key matches the translation result.
wordpressImage	Returns the image URL if available, otherwise returns the original image.
str_words	Truncates a string to a specified number of words.
excluding_vat	Formats a price with or without the "ex-VAT" label based on the core region.
clean	Strips HTML tags from a given string.
app_version	Retrieves the application version from the composer.json file.
_tsrcSorted	Accesses regional configuration under the toolstation namespace and returns it sorted alphabetically.
superscriptable	Converts specified substrings to their corresponding superscript form based on configuration.