str_replace...how to simplify ?

[Anon]

I think this code can be written much easier in say 1 sentence....but how?

$p = str_replace("(","",$p);
$p = str_replace(")","",$p);
$p = str_replace("/","",$p);
$p = str_replace("?","",$p);
$p = str_replace("-","",$p);
$p = str_replace("!","",$p);
$p = str_replace("@","",$p);
$p = str_replace("#","",$p);
$p = str_replace("$","",$p);
$p = str_replace("%","",$p);
$p = str_replace("^","",$p);
$p = str_replace("&","",$p);
$p = str_replace("*","",$p);
$p = str_replace(";","",$p);
$p = str_replace(":","",$p);
$p = str_replace("=","",$p);
$p = str_replace("'\'","",$p);
$p = str_replace ("''","", "$p");
$p = str_replace(","," ",$p);
$p = str_replace("]","",$p);
$p = str_replace("[","",$p);
$p = str_replace("{","",$p);
$p = str_replace("}","",$p);
$p = str_replace("<","",$p);
$p = str_replace(">","",$p);
$p = str_replace("|","",$p);
$p = str_replace("+","",$p);
$p = str_replace(".","",$p);

There must be an easier way 🙂

Secondly how do I fix for symbols, like squares and alt coded symbols?

Thx loads 🙂

[vsego]

Check the ereg_replace() in manual.

To replace all non-(digt or letter) characters, use ereg_replace("[[:alnum:]]", "", $p);