Joomla! Documentation™

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JUtility

Methods

Visibility	Method name	Description
public	array_unshift_ref	Prepend a reference to an element to the beginning of an array.
public	return_bytes	Return the byte value of a particular string.
public static	dump	Method to dump the structure of a variable for debugging purposes.
public static	getHash	Provides a secure hash based on a seed.
public static	getToken	Method to determine a hash for anti-spoofing variable names.
public static	isWinOS	Method to determine if the host OS is Windows.
public static	parseAttributes	Method to extract key/value pairs out of a string with xml style attributes.
public static	sendAdminMail	Sends mail to administrator for approval of a user submission.
public static	sendMail	Mail function (uses phpMailer).

• Defined in libraries/joomla/utilities/utility.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.utilities.utility' );

See also

• JUtility source code on BitBucket
• Subpackage Utilities
• Other versions of JUtility