Special to plain characters

ReSpawN · 05-26-2009, 11:43 AM

Hey guys,

I've been working on a project for the last couple of months and now I bumped into a problem I've been putting off.

I've got the word 'Agapé', with the nice small comma on the e. For short, a special character. Now I need to change this to the word 'agape' without loosing anything.

strtolower works perfect, but I'm stuck the with the special character. How do I change it to it's 'parent', the letter e?

Salathe · 05-26-2009, 01:13 PM

Just use normal string functions to replace some characters (eg. àéîøü) with their equivalent ones (eg. aeiou).

ReSpawN · 05-26-2009, 02:20 PM

Well, simple enough. I'll give it a go. Thanks mate.

ReSpawN · 05-27-2009, 10:33 AM

I found and edited a function that does some of the work for me, either I wonder if I matched all the currently, most commonly used characters. Have a look;

PHP Code:


			
function tidyString($string){    
    
    $string = strtr($string, "ŠŒŽšœžŸ¥µÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ", "SOZsozYYuAAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiionoooooouuuuyy");    
    $string = preg_replace('#\b\%\d.(|\b)#u', '', $string);    
    $string = preg_replace('#\b\%\d.(|\b)#u', '+', $string);    
    $string = preg_replace('#\b\+\++(|\b)#u', '+', $string);
    
    return $string;

}