Added GUID to selected views, and started updating JCB accordingly.

site/helpers/componentbuilder.php

@@ -2008,6 +2008,78 @@ abstract class ComponentbuilderHelper
 		return $default;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	* Returns a GUIDv4 string
+	* 
+	* Thanks to Dave Pearson (and other)
+	* https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.com-create-guid.php#119168 
+	*
+	* Uses the best cryptographically secure method
+	* for all supported platforms with fallback to an older,
+	* less secure version.
+	*
+	* @param bool $trim
+	* @return string
+	*/
+	public static function GUID ($trim = true)
+	{
+		// Windows
+		if (function_exists('com_create_guid') === true)
+		{
+			if ($trim === true)
+			{
+				return trim(com_create_guid(), '{}');
+			}
+			return com_create_guid();
+		}
+
+		// set the braces if needed
+		$lbrace = $trim ? "" : chr(123);    // "{"
+		$rbrace = $trim ? "" : chr(125);    // "}"
+
+		// OSX/Linux
+		if (function_exists('openssl_random_pseudo_bytes') === true)
+		{
+			$data = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(16);
+			$data[6] = chr(ord($data[6]) & 0x0f | 0x40);    // set version to 0100
+			$data[8] = chr(ord($data[8]) & 0x3f | 0x80);    // set bits 6-7 to 10
+			return $lbrace . vsprintf('%s%s-%s-%s-%s-%s%s%s', str_split(bin2hex($data), 4)) . $lbrace;
+		}
+
+		// Fallback (PHP 4.2+)
+		mt_srand((double)microtime() * 10000);
+		$charid = strtolower(md5(uniqid(rand(), true)));
+		$hyphen = chr(45);                  // "-"
+		$guidv4 = $lbrace.
+			substr($charid,  0,  8).$hyphen.
+			substr($charid,  8,  4).$hyphen.
+			substr($charid, 12,  4).$hyphen.
+			substr($charid, 16,  4).$hyphen.
+			substr($charid, 20, 12).
+			$rbrace;
+		return $guidv4;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	* Validate the Globally Unique Identifier
+	*
+	* Thanks to Lewie
+	* https://stackoverflow.com/a/1515456/1429677
+	*
+	* @param string $guid
+	* @return bool
+	*/
+	public static function validGUID ($guid)
+	{
+		// check if we have a string
+		if (self::checkString($guid))
+		{
+			return preg_match("/^(\{)?[a-f\d]{8}(-[a-f\d]{4}){4}[a-f\d]{8}(?(1)\})$/i", $guid);
+		}
+		return false;
+	}
+
+
 	/**
 	 * Tab/spacer bucket (to speed-up the build)
 	 *