function explode (delimiter, string, limit) {
    // http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
    // +     original by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +     improved by: kenneth
    // +     improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +     improved by: d3x
    // +     bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // *     example 1: explode(' ', 'Kevin van Zonneveld');
    // *     returns 1: {0: 'Kevin', 1: 'van', 2: 'Zonneveld'}
    // *     example 2: explode('=', 'a=bc=d', 2);
    // *     returns 2: ['a', 'bc=d']
 
    var emptyArray = { 0: '' };
    
    // third argument is not required
    if ( arguments.length < 2 ||
        typeof arguments[0] == 'undefined' ||
        typeof arguments[1] == 'undefined' ) {
        return null;
    }
 
    if ( delimiter === '' ||
        delimiter === false ||
        delimiter === null ) {
        return false;
    }
 
    if ( typeof delimiter == 'function' ||
        typeof delimiter == 'object' ||
        typeof string == 'function' ||
        typeof string == 'object' ) {
        return emptyArray;
    }
 
    if ( delimiter === true ) {
        delimiter = '1';
    }
    
    if (!limit) {
        return string.toString().split(delimiter.toString());
    } else {
        // support for limit argument
        var splitted = string.toString().split(delimiter.toString());
        var partA = splitted.splice(0, limit - 1);
        var partB = splitted.join(delimiter.toString());
        partA.push(partB);
        return partA;
    }
}

function substr (str, start, len) {
    // Returns part of a string  
    // 
    // version: 909.322
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/substr
    // +     original by: Martijn Wieringa
    // +     bugfixed by: T.Wild
    // +      tweaked by: Onno Marsman
    // +      revised by: Theriault
    // *       example 1: substr('abcdef', 0, -1);
    // *       returns 1: 'abcde'
    // *       example 2: substr(2, 0, -6);
    // *       returns 2: false

// Add: (?) Use unicode.semantics and/or unicode.runtime_encoding (e.g., with string wrapped in "binary" or "Binary" class) to
// allow access of binary (see file_get_contents()) by: charCodeAt(x) & 0xFF (see https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_XMLHttpRequest )
// Fix: Handle 4-byte characters

    str += '';
    var end = str.length;
    if (start < 0) {
        start += end;
    }
    end = typeof len === 'undefined' ? end : (len < 0 ? len + end : len + start);
    // PHP returns false if start does not fall within the string.
    // PHP returns false if the calculated end comes before the calculated start.
    // PHP returns an empty string if start and end are the same.
    // Otherwise, PHP returns the portion of the string from start to end.
    return start >= str.length || start < 0 || start > end ? !1 : str.slice(start, end);
}

function stripos ( f_haystack, f_needle, f_offset ){
    // http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
    // +     original by: Martijn Wieringa
    // +      revised by: Onno Marsman
    // *         example 1: stripos('ABC', 'a');
    // *         returns 1: 0

    var haystack = (f_haystack+'').toLowerCase();
    var needle = (f_needle+'').toLowerCase();
    var index = 0;
 
    if ((index = haystack.indexOf(needle, f_offset)) !== -1) {
        return index;
    }
    return false;
}

function str_replace (search, replace, subject, count) {
    // http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
    // +   original by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   improved by: Gabriel Paderni
    // +   improved by: Philip Peterson
    // +   improved by: Simon Willison (http://simonwillison.net)
    // +    revised by: Jonas Raoni Soares Silva (http://www.jsfromhell.com)
    // +   bugfixed by: Anton Ongson
    // +      input by: Onno Marsman
    // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +    tweaked by: Onno Marsman
    // +      input by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   input by: Oleg Eremeev
    // +   improved by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // +   bugfixed by: Oleg Eremeev
    // %          note 1: The count parameter must be passed as a string in order
    // %          note 1:  to find a global variable in which the result will be given
    // *     example 1: str_replace(' ', '.', 'Kevin van Zonneveld');
    // *     returns 1: 'Kevin.van.Zonneveld'
    // *     example 2: str_replace(['{name}', 'l'], ['hello', 'm'], '{name}, lars');
    // *     returns 2: 'hemmo, mars'

    var i = 0, j = 0, temp = '', repl = '', sl = 0, fl = 0,
            f = [].concat(search),
            r = [].concat(replace),
            s = subject,
            ra = r instanceof Array, sa = s instanceof Array;
    s = [].concat(s);
    if (count) {
        this.window[count] = 0;
    }

    for (i=0, sl=s.length; i < sl; i++) {
        if (s[i] === '') {
            continue;
        }
        for (j=0, fl=f.length; j < fl; j++) {
            temp = s[i]+'';
            repl = ra ? (r[j] !== undefined ? r[j] : '') : r[0];
            s[i] = (temp).split(f[j]).join(repl);
            if (count && s[i] !== temp) {
                this.window[count] += (temp.length-s[i].length)/f[j].length;}
        }
    }
    return sa ? s : s[0];
}
