On Fri 20 Jul 07 04:21, ahlist wrote: > On 7/19/07, ahlist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A libarary I'm using (the cybersource api if it helps any) is dying > > when I pass it "extended" chars - such as bjorn (two dots over the > > o - not sure of the actual name of this char -sorry). > > > > For some reason, the newest version of cybersourc's api aborts on > > this input. > > > > Can anyone recommend a quick way to strip/convert those chars out > > before I pass it to cybersources lib? > > > > I store the data as a varchar in mysql and pull it out in a query. > > > > Thanks for ANY advice. I need to get some sort of fix for this > > asap. > > I should add that I'm not using mbyte extension. > > Is there any transformation or regex that could replace anything > outside of a-zA-z with another char. I don't need this to be exact. > The db will still hold the original, correct chars. I just need to > feed something to the cybersource lib that is all a-zA-Z > > Thanks in advance.
do a $somestring = cleanconvertaccents($somestring); then pass it over to your function. was trying to do the same and found nice examples in php.net and other places on the web. // i got this function from the web.. converts accents into their lower ascii base chars. converted it a bit to handle more characters // credits to opensource! got this from the strtr docs on php.net // thank you -sven (www.bitcetera.com) // It does accents and umlauts, but also ligatures and runes known to ISO-8859-1 function cleanconvertaccents($str,$escapeapostrophes=false) { $str = cleanutfstrtranslate($str,$escapeapostrophes); $str = htmlentities($str); //$newstr = preg_replace("/&([a-z])[a-z\d]+;/i","$1",$str); $newstr = preg_replace("/(&#\d\d\d;)/i","$1",$str); $newstr = preg_replace("/:/","",$newstr); return $newstr; } function cleanutfstrtranslate($str,$escapeapostrophes=false) { $badwordchars=array( "\xe2\x80\x98", // left single quote "\xe2\x80\x99", // right single quote "\xe2\x80\x9c", // left double quote "\xe2\x80\x9d", // right double quote "\xe2\x80\x94", // em dash "\xe2\x80\xa6" // elipses ); if ($escapeapostrophes) { $fixedwordchars=array( "\\'", "\\'", '\\"', '\\"', '-', 'o'); } else { $fixedwordchars=array( "'", "'", '\"', '\"', '-', 'o'); } $str=str_replace($badwordchars,$fixedwordchars,$str); if ($escapeapostrophes) { $str= strtr($str, array("\x92"=>"\\'")); } $str = strtr($str, "\x91\x92\x93\x94\x96\xA1\xAA\xBA\xBF\xC0\xC1\xC2\xC3\xC5\xC7\xC8\xC9\xCA\xCB\xCC\xCD\xCE\xCF\xD0\xD1" ."\xD2\xD3\xD4\xD5\xD8\xD9\xDA\xDB\xDD\xE0\xE1\xE2\xE3\xE5\xE7\xE8\xE9\xEA\xEB\xEC" ."\xED\xEE\xEF\xF0\xF1\xF2\xF3\xF4\xF5\xF8\xF9\xFA\xFB\xFD\xFF", "\"'\"\"-!ao?AAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOUUUYaaaaaceeeeiiiidnooooouuuyy"); $str= strtr($str, array("\xC4"=>"Ae", "\xC6"=>"AE", "\xD6"=>"Oe", "\xDC"=>"Ue", "\xDE"=>"TH", "\xDF"=>"ss", "\xE4"=>"ae", "\xE6"=>"ae", "\xF6"=>"oe", "\xFC"=>"ue", "\xFE"=>"th","\x85"=>"...")); return($str); } -- Eddie Dunckley - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Realtime Travel Connections IBE Development, www.rttc.co.za, cell 083-379-6891, fax 086-617-7831 Where 33deg53'37.23"S 18deg37'57.87"E Cape Town Bellville Oakdale ZA random quote: "Courage is grace under pressure." -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php