note 111036 added to function.ord

I needed to transform some UTF-8 text to ASCII to avoid bots indexing certain material which gave googling users false hope of finding stuff. However ord() doesn't support UTF-8 and ASCII doesn't support all UTF-8 chars so I made a neat function that converts all chars to CP437 which is an extended version of ACII that has a wider (but not total) support for UTF-8 chars. (I'm not sure if google indeed not understand this but past experience tells me so) <?php function ascii_encode($str) { iconv("UTF-8", "CP437", $str); $encoded = ''; for ($i=0; $i < strlen($str); $i++){ $chr = substr($str,$i, 1); if (ord($chr) == ord('&')) { while (ord($chr) != ord(';') && $i < strlen($str)) { $chr = substr($str,$i, 1); $i++; $encoded .= $chr; } $i--; } else { $encoded .= '&#'.ord($chr).';'; } } return $encoded; } ?> ---- Server IP: 80.67.0.53 Probable Submitter: 80.216.182.206 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.ord.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/111036 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111036/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111036/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111036/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111036/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111036/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111036/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111036 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/111036 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php