Start instance of base class, load configuration and establish database connection. Please don't call the constructor direcly, use the singleton pattern instead.
Creates key=>value array from a text macro tag string. Takes array with preg_replace_callback() output as first argument. The second argument is a switch to enable/disable key/value security/sanitizing. Returns array.
Returns PCRE search pattern for extraction of a text macro tag. Takes the name of the text macro tag as first argument. The second argument is a switch to enable/disable multi line tags.