starting work on Smarty stuff

docroot/html/libs/plugins/modifier.spacify.php

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+<?php
+/**
+ * Smarty plugin
+ * @package Smarty
+ * @subpackage PluginsModifier
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Smarty spacify modifier plugin
+ * 
+ * Type:     modifier<br>
+ * Name:     spacify<br>
+ * Purpose:  add spaces between characters in a string
+ * 
+ * @link http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.modifier.spacify.php spacify (Smarty online manual)
+ * @author Monte Ohrt <monte at ohrt dot com> 
+ * @param string $ 
+ * @param string $ 
+ * @return string 
+ */
+function smarty_modifier_spacify($string, $spacify_char = ' ')
+{ 
+    // mb_ functions available?
+    if (function_exists('mb_strlen') && mb_detect_encoding($string, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1') === 'UTF-8') {
+        $strlen = mb_strlen($string);
+        while ($strlen) {
+            $array[] = mb_substr($string, 0, 1, "UTF-8");
+            $string = mb_substr($string, 1, $strlen, "UTF-8");
+            $strlen = mb_strlen($string);
+        } 
+        return implode($spacify_char, $array);
+    } else {
+        return implode($spacify_char, preg_split('//', $string, -1));
+    } 
+} 
+
+?>