Re: [nyphp-talk] Squashing accented characters

2010-10-22 Thread Edward Potter
Yes, something that seems VERY simple can get VERY complicated, VERY fast! Friend did this site, he has put in a zillion hours figuring out all the characters issues. one of the rockstar coders (dreams in vi), and still he says, learning something new everyday. :-))) http://dreamtype.com/ "You

Re: [nyphp-talk] Squashing accented characters

2010-10-22 Thread David Krings
On 10/22/2010 14:50, Paul A Houle wrote: I'm running into the problem that people are searching for "Dusseldorf" but the name of the place is "Düsseldorf", so they don't find it. That is very unfortunate, because that is the city I was born in. As for your problem, I got nothing. David _

Re: [nyphp-talk] Squashing accented characters

2010-10-22 Thread Rob Marscher
On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Paul A Houle wrote: > I'm running into the problem that people are searching for "Dusseldorf" but > the name of the place is "Düsseldorf", so they don't find it. I haven't seen a php function to do it (not to say one doesn't exist). However, I use sphinx for searc

Re: [nyphp-talk] Squashing accented characters

2010-10-22 Thread Andrew Yochum
Hi Paul, You can achieve that with unicode transliteration: http://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/transliteration-guidelines Check out the PHP Iconv extension: http://us.php.net/manual/en/intro.iconv.php Hope that helps! Regards, Andrew On 10/22/10 2:50 PM, Paul A Houle wrote: For m

[nyphp-talk] Squashing accented characters

2010-10-22 Thread Paul A Houle
For my site at http://ookaboo.com/ I'm running into the problem that people are searching for "Dusseldorf" but the name of the place is "Düsseldorf", so they don't find it. It seems to me a good answer to this is to have some function that squashes accented characters down to unaccented fo

Re: [nyphp-talk] Array-cersize

2010-10-22 Thread Glenn
I'm not sure that I fully understand the subtleties of the data/ problem but... array_walk_recursive might be part of a solution. You could write a callback function to use with it to do whatever you need. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-walk-recursive.php hth, glenn On Oct 2

Re: [nyphp-talk] Array-cersize

2010-10-22 Thread ps
it looks deceptively good at first for count.count($arr_countable_items) will count all the first dimension arrays, with the recursive param it seems it will count every element in every array.also if the array is an index array and not precisely indexed 0, 1, 2, 3, , the count will failPeter

Re: [nyphp-talk] Array-cersize

2010-10-22 Thread David Krings
On 10/21/2010 22:26, Peter Sawczynec wrote: What is the proper best way for me to count how many (if any) b_arrays are in $arr_countable_items. What is the best way to count how many value1s (if any) are in $arr_countable_items_2. Hi! Doesn't count() do what you need to do? Without para