$pattern */ public static function matchesPattern(string|iterable $pattern, string $value): bool { if (! is_iterable($pattern)) { $pattern = [$pattern]; } foreach ($pattern as $pattern) { $pattern = (string)$pattern; // If the given value is an exact match we can of course return true right // from the beginning. Otherwise, we will translate asterisks and do an // actual pattern match against the two strings to see if they match. if ($pattern === $value) { return true; } $pattern = preg_quote($pattern, '#'); // Asterisks are translated into zero-or-more regular expression wildcards // to make it convenient to check if the strings starts with the given // pattern such as "library/*", making any string check convenient. $pattern = str_replace('\*', '.*', $pattern); if (preg_match('#^' . $pattern . '\z#u', $value) === 1) { return true; } } return false; } /** * Begin a string with a single instance of a given value. */ public static function start(string $value, string $prefix): string { $quoted = preg_quote($prefix, '/'); return $prefix . preg_replace('/^(?:' . $quoted . ')+/u', '', $value); } /** * Generate a more truly "random" alpha-numeric string. * * @param int<1, max> $length * @throws \Exception */ public static function random(int $length = 16): string { $string = ''; while (($len = mb_strlen($string)) < $length) { /** @var int<1, max> $size */ $size = $length - $len; $bytes = random_bytes($size); $string .= mb_substr(str_replace(['/', '+', '='], '', base64_encode($bytes)), 0, $size); } return $string; } }