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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 $string input string
+ * @param string $spacify_char string to insert between characters.
+ *
+ * @return string
+ */
+function smarty_modifier_spacify($string, $spacify_char = ' ') {
+    // well… what about charsets besides latin and UTF-8?
+    return implode($spacify_char, preg_split('//' . Smarty::$_UTF8_MODIFIER, $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY));
+}