note 64645 added to function.html-entity-decode

This one is intended for those who want to convert special characters into their corresponding normal characters, for instance an "é" into an "e", or a "ç" into a "c", or a Spanish "ñ" into an "n". It is aimed at converting a string full of special characters into a string that might be valid as an URL or as a part of it. It might not work for a few characters, but it will for those most usual in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, etc. function strtourl ($noentities) { // We first 'clean' the string to something similar to an URL // (These lines are not necessary if what you want is just to strip the special characters) $noentities = htmlentities (strtolower (trim ($noentities))); $noentities = preg_replace ("/\s+/", "", $noentities); // Then we search the entities in it preg_match_all ('/[&]+[\w]+[;]+/i', $noentities, $entitiesfound); // Now we replace anything found between a '&' and a ';' with the first character found after the '&' foreach ($entitiesfound[0] as $specialchar) { $noentities = str_replace ($specialchar, substr ($specialchar, 1, 1), $noentities); } return $noentities; } // Example (in Castilian Spanish) print strtourl ("Fíjate tú qué año"); I am an amateur programmer - if programmer at all! - so forgive my possible errors ---- Server IP: 217.174.203.10 Probable Submitter: 147.83.3.43 ---- X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=7.4 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER, HEAD_ILLEGAL_CHARS autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/64645 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64645/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64645/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64645/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64645/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64645/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64645/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64645 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/64645 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php