special characters problem, please help

Anon

Hey...

When I search my database I would like it to
make "a" and "o" count as any character.

With this I could search for example after
"Jorgen" and still get the result "Jörgen" (Swedish name with special character "ö") .

How do I do this with PHP, I took a look at the php-manual without understanding, please help me out

When I was programming ASP a while ago, I solved the problem by writing

teaminput = String(teaminput);
teaminput = teaminput.replace(/'/g,"");
teaminput = teaminput.replace(/[ao]/ig,"_");
teaminput = teaminput.replace(/*/g,"%");

... but how to do it in PHP?, that is the question

Anon

RTFM: preg_replace();

But I'm not sure I'd want to confuse Jurgen with Jörgen...why not play it safer with something like a /[òóôõöø]/ => o mapping?

The whole remapping could be done in one line with strtr(), as suggested in the manual page for that function.

Anon

I understand what you are saying Weedpacket, and it's alot better/safer to have it your way. But however I'm not sure how to really write it, I checked the manual but I'm a beginner to this and didn't really understand a lot.

So if you could help me out some more, maybe write the whole line that replaces the characters I would be most grateful.

This is how I solved the problem temporarily, but as I'd said I'd rather have it your way.

$teaminput = $_POST['team'];

$teaminput = str_replace("a", "", $teaminput);
$teaminput = str_replace("A", "", $teaminput);
$teaminput = str_replace("o", "%", $teaminput);
$teaminput = str_replace("O", "%", $teaminput);
$teaminput = str_replace("'", "", $teaminput);
$teaminput = str_replace("\"", "", $teaminput);
$teaminput = str_replace("*", "%",$teaminput);