note 64645 deleted from function.html-entity-decode by bjori

Note Submitter: carlosdelriosilvan at yahoo dot es Reason: bad code ---- 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