strtr($HTML Special Characters,$ASCII)

[Anon]

Hi there,

I am writing an application that reads through a HTML files via http and saves it as a regoular ascii txt. It is a simple script and everything, of course, works ... except ... the translation of HTML special characters in to ASCII (expecially for all those letters with accents that very common in non english languages). To acieve this at the moment I am using a horrible method (the file is saved with these special chars and then parsed by a linux application -links- that does the job for me).

Now my obvious question. Is there a PHP native method to replace the HTML special characters with their ASCII representation?

Thanks,

Vin 

[daarius]

htmlspecialchars()
and
htmlentities()

check the manual for both please.

[Anon]

unfortunatly you didn't understand the question i think.
maybe you should read the question and the manual and you would see your clever answer is twisted.
i'm looking for a solution to. so i ask the same question again.

it's really easy to transform all these characters in HTML Special Characters but not easy to change the special characters (&???😉 in asci or delete or what ever.

[Anon]

this function should do the work

function html_special_chars_2_ascii($text,$table)
{
/
1 argument = string
2 argument = HTML_ENTITIES or HTML_SPECIALCHARS
example
$text = html_special_chars_2_ascii($text,HTML_ENTITIES);"
/
$trans = get_html_translation_table ("$table",ENT_QUOTES);
$trans = array_flip ($trans);
$text = strtr ($text, $trans);
return $text;
}