PHP replacing special characters like - a - e

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I have php document signup php which save the content from form  in form php document  to MySQL base  The problem arises when I want to reformat the input content  I want do decode UTF-8 charachters like    - a      first name   POST  first name       last name   POST  last name       course   POST  course        chain  pr  t-  -porter     pattern   array                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    replace   array  e    e    e    e    E    E    E    E    a    a    a    a    a    A    A    A    A    A    o    o    o    o    O    O    O    O    i    i    i    I    I    I    I    I    u    u    u    u    U    U    U    U    y    y    Y    o    O    a    A    A    c    C       chain   preg replace  pattern   replace   chain    echo  chain     print pret-a-porter   first name    preg replace  pattern   replace   first name    echo  first name     does not change the input      Why it works perfectly for  chain  but for  first name or  last name doesnt work   Also i try  echo  first name     print             b            b          trans   array        gt   a          gt   e          gt   s    echo strtr              b            b            trans      print aaaaaabeeeeeebssss echo strtr  first name  trans       print             b            b           but the problem  as you can see  is same

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The string  chain is in the same character encoding as the characters in the array - it s possible  even likely  that the  first name string is in a different encoding  and so those characters don t match  You might want to try using the multibyte string functions instead   Try mb convert encoding  You might also want to try using HTML ENTITIES as the to encoding parameter  then you don t need to worry about how the characters will get converted - it will be very predictable   Assuming your input to this script is in UTF-8  probably not a bad place to start      first name   mb convert encoding  first name   HTML-ENTITIES    UTF-8

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function correctedText  txt         ss   str split  txt          for  i 0   i lt count  ss    i          asciiNumber   ord  ss  i      get the ascii dec of a single character             asciiNumber will be from the DEC column showing at https   www ascii-code com             capital letters only checked      if  asciiNumber  gt   192  amp  amp   asciiNumber  lt   197  ss  i     A       elseif  asciiNumber    198  ss  i     AE       elseif  asciiNumber    199  ss  i     C       elseif  asciiNumber  gt   200  amp  amp   asciiNumber  lt   203  ss  i     E       elseif  asciiNumber  gt   204  amp  amp   asciiNumber  lt   207  ss  i     I       elseif  asciiNumber    209  ss  i     N       elseif  asciiNumber  gt   210  amp  amp   asciiNumber  lt   214  ss  i     O       elseif  asciiNumber    216  ss  i     O       elseif  asciiNumber  gt   217  amp  amp   asciiNumber  lt   220  ss  i     U       elseif  asciiNumber    221  ss  i     Y               txt   implode      ss          return  txt

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As of PHP    5 4 0   translatedString   transliterator transliterate  Any-Latin  Latin-ASCII    u0080- u7fff  remove    string

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Wish I found this thread sooner  The function I made  that took me way too long  is below   function CheckLetters  field        letters             0   gt   a                      a           1   gt   c    c c           2   gt   e             e e e           3   gt   i i i                       4   gt   l l           5   gt   n    n           6   gt   o o                                7   gt   s    s              8   gt   u u                       9   gt   w w           10   gt   y y              11   gt   z z    z              foreach   letters as  amp  values            newValue   substr  values  0  1            values   substr  values  2  strlen  values             values   explode       values           foreach   values as  amp  oldValue               while  strpos  field  oldValue      false                    field   preg replace        oldValue         newValue   field  1                                     return  field

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Simple function  Transform strings like    b     fg  to  abc efg            param  str     return mixed     function sanitizeString  str         str   preg replace                ui    a    str        str   preg replace              ui    e    str        str   preg replace              ui    i    str        str   preg replace                ui    o    str        str   preg replace              ui    u    str        str   preg replace        ui    c    str        str   preg replace     a-z0-9  i         str        str   preg replace               str        return  str

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CodeIgniter way    this- gt load- gt helper  text      string   convert accented characters  string     This function uses a companion config file application config foreign chars php to define the to and from array for transliteration   https   www codeigniter com user guide helpers text helper html ascii to entities

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Here is a way to have some flexibility in what should be discarded and what should be replaced  This is how I currently do it       string       some string with junk I          replace           amp lt     gt        amp gt     gt        amp  039     gt        amp amp     gt            amp quot     gt             gt   A          gt   A          gt   A          gt   A          gt   Ae         amp Auml     gt   A          gt   A    A    gt   A    A    gt   A    A    gt   A          gt   Ae              gt   C    C    gt   C    C    gt   C    C    gt   C    C    gt   C    D    gt   D          gt   D              gt   D          gt   E          gt   E          gt   E          gt   E    E    gt   E        E    gt   E    E    gt   E    E    gt   E    E    gt   E    G    gt   G    G    gt   G        G    gt   G    G    gt   G    H    gt   H    H    gt   H          gt   I          gt   I              gt   I          gt   I    I    gt   I    I    gt   I    I    gt   I    I    gt   I        I    gt   I         gt   IJ    J    gt   J    K    gt   K    L    gt   K    L    gt   K        L    gt   K    L    gt   K         gt   K          gt   N    N    gt   N    N    gt   N        N    gt   N         gt   N          gt   O          gt   O          gt   O          gt   O              gt   Oe     amp Ouml     gt   Oe          gt   O    O    gt   O    O    gt   O    O    gt   O              gt   OE    R    gt   R    R    gt   R    R    gt   R    S    gt   S          gt   S        S    gt   S    S    gt   S         gt   S    T    gt   T    T    gt   T    T    gt   T             gt   T          gt   U          gt   U          gt   U          gt   Ue    U    gt   U         amp Uuml     gt   Ue    U    gt   U    U    gt   U    U    gt   U    U    gt   U    U    gt   U        W    gt   W          gt   Y    Y    gt   Y          gt   Y    Z    gt   Z          gt   Z        Z    gt   Z          gt   T          gt   a          gt   a          gt   a          gt   a              gt   ae     amp auml     gt   ae          gt   a    a    gt   a    a    gt   a    a    gt   a              gt   ae          gt   c    c    gt   c    c    gt   c    c    gt   c    c    gt   c        d    gt   d    d    gt   d          gt   d          gt   e          gt   e          gt   e              gt   e    e    gt   e    e    gt   e    e    gt   e    e    gt   e    e    gt   e              gt   f    g    gt   g    g    gt   g    g    gt   g    g    gt   g    h    gt   h        h    gt   h          gt   i          gt   i          gt   i          gt   i    i    gt   i        i    gt   i    i    gt   i    i    gt   i    i    gt   i         gt   ij    j    gt   j        k    gt   k         gt   k    l    gt   l    l    gt   l    l    gt   l    l    gt   l             gt   l          gt   n    n    gt   n    n    gt   n    n    gt   n         gt   n             gt   n          gt   o          gt   o          gt   o          gt   o          gt   oe         amp ouml     gt   oe          gt   o    o    gt   o    o    gt   o    o    gt   o          gt   oe        r    gt   r    r    gt   r    r    gt   r          gt   s          gt   u          gt   u              gt   u          gt   ue    u    gt   u     amp uuml     gt   ue    u    gt   u    u    gt   u        u    gt   u    u    gt   u    u    gt   u    w    gt   w          gt   y          gt   y        y    gt   y          gt   z    z    gt   z    z    gt   z          gt   t          gt   ss             gt   ss          gt   iy         gt   A         gt   B         gt   V         gt   G             gt   D         gt   E         gt   YO         gt   ZH         gt   Z         gt   I             gt   Y         gt   K         gt   L         gt   M         gt   N         gt   O             gt   P         gt   R         gt   S         gt   T         gt   U         gt   F             gt   H         gt   C         gt   CH         gt   SH         gt   SCH         gt                gt   Y         gt            gt   E         gt   YU         gt   YA         gt   a             gt   b         gt   v         gt   g         gt   d         gt   e         gt   yo             gt   zh         gt   z         gt   i         gt   y         gt   k         gt   l             gt   m         gt   n         gt   o         gt   p         gt   r         gt   s             gt   t         gt   u         gt   f         gt   h         gt   c         gt   ch             gt   sh         gt   sch         gt            gt   y         gt            gt   e             gt   yu         gt   ya      echo str replace array keys  replace    replace   string

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There s a much easier way to do this  using iconv - from the user notes  this seems to be what you want to do  characters transliteration     PHP net User notes  lt  php      string     ABBASABAD        echo iconv  UTF-8    ISO-8859-1  TRANSLIT    string          output   nothing  and you get a notice       echo iconv  UTF-8    ISO-8859-1  IGNORE    string          output  ABBSBD      echo iconv  UTF-8    ISO-8859-1  TRANSLIT  IGNORE    string          output  ABBASABAD        Yay  That s what I wanted    gt    Be very conscientious with your character encodings  so you are keeping the same encoding at all stages in the process - front end  form submission  encoding of the source files  Default encoding in PHP and in forms is ISO-8859-1  before PHP 5 4 where it changed to be UTF8  finally      There s a couple of functions you can play around with for ideas  First is from CakePHP s inflector class  called slug   public static function slug  string   replacement               quotedReplacement   preg quote  replacement              merge   array               s p Ll  p Lm  p Lo  p Lt  p Lu  p Nd   mu    gt                   s      gt   replacement          sprintf      s     s        quotedReplacement   quotedReplacement    gt                   map   self    transliteration    merge      return preg replace array keys  map   array values  map    string       It depends on a self    transliteration array which is similar to what you were doing in your question - you can see the source for inflector on github    Another is a function I use personally  which comes from here   function slugify  text  strict   false         text   html entity decode  text  ENT QUOTES   UTF-8           replace non letter or digits by -      text   preg replace       pL d    u    -    text           trim      text   trim  text   -        setlocale LC CTYPE   en GB utf8           transliterate     if  function exists  iconv               text   iconv  utf-8    us-ascii  TRANSLIT    text                 lowercase      text   strtolower  text          remove unwanted characters      text   preg replace     - w            text       if  empty  text             return  empty               if   strict             text   str replace            text             return  text      What those functions do is transliterate and create  slugs  from arbitrary text input  which is a very very useful thing to have in your toolchest when making web apps  Hope this helps

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