John Taylor-Johnston wrote:
Can someone show me how to get rid of international characters in
$string? Is there a function already made?
the acute/grave accents on the chars are called 'diacritics'
You cannot use accented characters in a name reference : a
name=montréal.
I guess this below is a start. Is there a better way?
John
http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php
$string = àâéèç;
|$find = array(à, â, é, è, ç);
||$||replacewith|| = array(a, a, e, e, c);||
$onlyconsonants = str_replace($vowels, $replacewith, $string);
?php
// you could do something like:
function getUndiacritical($word)
{
$base_drop_char_match = array('^', '$', '', '(', ')', '', '', '`', '\'', '', '|', ',', '@', '_', '?', '%', '-',
'~', '+', '.', '[', ']', '{', '}', ':', '\\', '/', '=', '#', '\'', ';', '!');
$base_drop_char_replace = array(' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', '', '', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', '', ' ', ' ', '', '
', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ' , ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ');
$xtr_drop_char_match = array('à', 'â', 'ä', 'æ', 'è', 'ê', 'ì', 'î', 'ð', 'ò', 'ô', 'ö', 'ø', 'ú', 'ü', 'ß', 'á', 'ã',
'å', 'ç', 'é', 'ë', 'í', 'ï', 'ñ', 'ó', 'õ', 'ù', 'û', 'ý', 'ÿ');
$xtr_drop_char_replace = array('a', 'a', 'a', 'a', 'e', 'e', 'i', 'i', 'o', 'o', 'o', 'o', 'o', 'u', 'u', 's', 'a', 'a',
'a', 'c', 'e', 'e', 'i', 'i', 'n', 'o', 'o', 'u', 'u', 'y', 'y');
$drop_char_match = array_merge( $base_drop_char_match, $xtr_drop_char_match );
$drop_char_replace = array_merge( $base_drop_char_replace,
$xtr_drop_char_replace );
return str_replace($drop_char_match, $drop_char_replace, $word);
}
// alternatively
function getUndiacritical2($word)
{
$base_drop_char_match = array('^', '$', '', '(', ')', '', '', '`', '\'', '', '|', ',', '@', '_', '?', '%', '-',
'~', '+', '.', '[', ']', '{', '}', ':', '\\', '/', '=', '#', '\'', ';', '!');
$base_drop_char_replace = array(' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', '', '', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', '', ' ', ' ', '', '
', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ' , ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ');
$xtr_drop_char_match = array('à', 'â', 'ä', 'æ', 'è', 'ê', 'ì', 'î', 'ð', 'ò', 'ô', 'ö', 'ø', 'ú', 'ü', 'ß', 'á', 'ã',
'å', 'ç', 'é', 'ë', 'í', 'ï', 'ñ', 'ó', 'õ', 'ù', 'û', 'ý', 'ÿ');
$xtr_drop_char_replace = array('a', 'a', 'a', 'a', 'e', 'e', 'i', 'i', 'o', 'o', 'o', 'o', 'o', 'u', 'u', 's', 'a', 'a',
'a', 'c', 'e', 'e', 'i', 'i', 'n', 'o', 'o', 'u', 'u', 'y', 'y');
$drop_char_match = join('',array_merge( $base_drop_char_match,
$xtr_drop_char_match ));
$drop_char_replace = join('',array_merge( $base_drop_char_replace,
$xtr_drop_char_replace ));
return strtr($drop_char_match, $drop_char_replace, $word);
}
?
I doubt either of these funcs is perfect but it hopefully gives you a clue in
the right
redirection.
rgds,
Jochem
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