get('IDAccumulator');
if (isset($id_accumulator->ids[$id])) return false;
// we purposely avoid using regex, hopefully this is faster
if (ctype_alpha($id)) {
$result = true;
} else {
if (!ctype_alpha(@$id[0])) return false;
$trim = trim( // primitive style of regexps, I suppose
$id,
'A..Za..z0..9:-._'
);
$result = ($trim === '');
}
if ($result) $id_accumulator->add($id);
// if no change was made to the ID, return the result
// else, return the new id if stripping whitespace made it
// valid, or return false.
return $result ? $id : false;
}
}
?>