+// Wrapper for fetchUserData() and getUserData() calls
+function getFetchedUserData ($keyColumn, $userId, $valueColumn) {
+ // Default is 'guest'
+ $data = getMessage('USERNAME_GUEST');
+
+ // Can we fetch the user data?
+ if (($userId > 0) && (fetchUserData($userId, $keyColumn))) {
+ // Now get the data back
+ $data = getUserData($valueColumn);
+ } // END - if
+
+ // Return it
+ return $data;
+}
+
+// Wrapper for strpos() to ease porting from deprecated ereg() function
+function isInString ($needle, $haystack) {
+ return (strpos($haystack, $needle) !== false);
+}
+
+// Wrapper for strpos() to ease porting from deprecated eregi() function
+// This function is case-insensitive
+function isInStringIgnoreCase ($needle, $haystack) {
+ return (isInString(strtolower($haystack), strtolower($needle)));
+}
+