#130991: Custom menu items, part 1

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/modules/comment/comment.module b/modules/comment/comment.module
index 1c650eaff..e3b0a4e51 100644
--- a/modules/comment/comment.module
+++ b/modules/comment/comment.module
@@ -1989,6 +1989,26 @@ function comment_invoke_comment(&$comment, $op) {
   return $return;
 }
 
+
+/**
+ * Generate vancode.
+ *
+ * Consists of a leading character indicating length, followed by N digits
+ * with a numerical value in base 36. Vancodes can be sorted as strings
+ * without messing up numerical order.
+ *
+ * It goes:
+ * 00, 01, 02, ..., 0y, 0z,
+ * 110, 111, ... , 1zy, 1zz,
+ * 2100, 2101, ..., 2zzy, 2zzz,
+ * 31000, 31001, ...
+ */
+function int2vancode($i = 0) {
+  $num = base_convert((int)$i, 10, 36);
+  $length = strlen($num);
+  return chr($length + ord('0') - 1) . $num;
+}
+
 /**
  * Decode vancode back to an integer.
  */