I have clean function for remove special caracter from string but that function also removing Turkish caracter (ı,ğ,ş,ç,ö) from string
function clean($string) {
$string = str_replace(' ', ' ', $string);
$string = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', ' ', $string);
return preg_replace('/-+/', '-', $string);
}
How can I fix it ?
Add those characters you want to keep to preg, also add Upper cases if neededç I edited your code:
function clean($string) {
$string = str_replace(' ', ' ', $string);
$string = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-ığşçöüÖÇŞİıĞ]/', ' ', $string);
return preg_replace('/-+/', '-', $string);
}
Test:
$str='Merhaba=Türkiye 12345 çok çalış another one ! *, !@_';
var_dump(clean($str));
//Output: string(57) "Merhaba Türkiye 12345 çok çalış another one "
You can use iconv to replacing special characters like à->a, è->e
<?php
$string = "ʿABBĀSĀBĀD";
echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT', $string);
// output: [nothing, and you get a notice]
echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//IGNORE', $string);
// output: ABBSBD
echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT//IGNORE', $string);
// output: ABBASABAD
// Yay! That's what I wanted!
?>
Credits:
Maybe you can try:
function clean($string) {
$string = str_replace(' ', ' ', $string);
$string = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9ĞİŞığşçö\-]/', ' ', $string);
return preg_replace('/-+/', '-', $string);
}
Which special characters you want to replace? Maybe be it'll be easier to change a paradigm of cleaning from everything except ... to something concrete.
<?php
function garbagereplace($string) {
$garbagearray = array('@','#','$','%','^','&','*');
$garbagecount = count($garbagearray);
for ($i=0; $i<$garbagecount; $i++) {
$string = str_replace($garbagearray[$i], '-', $string);
}
return $string;
}
echo garbagereplace('text@#$text%^&*text');
?>
You could use the following to remove accents from accented characters.
function removeAccents($subject){
//Note: This is not a complete list of accented characters
$accented = array('ü','Ü','ú','È','É','Ê','Ë','é','ê','ë','è','£','Ğ','İ','Ş','ı','ğ','ş','ç','ö','Ÿ','ÿ','á','ñ','Ñ','À','Á','Â','Ã','Ä','Å');
$clean = array('u','U','u','E','E','E','E','e','e','e','e','f','G','I','S','l','g','s','c','o','Y','y','a','n','N','A','A','A','A','A','A');
$accentcount = count($accented);
for ($i=0;$i<$accentcount;$i++){
$subject = str_replace($accented[$i], $clean[$i], $subject);
}
return $subject;
}
For example:
removeAccents("el niño");
Returns "el nino"
-. Try telling it not to remove letters, eg.\p{L}