handling german umlaut

[finger]

hi,

i've a search-form, which already works very well. but as soon as a user tries to search for a word, containing an umlaut (ä = ä, etc.) the function strpos doesnt work any longer.

i tried the following:

if $search is the value of the search-textfield, containung an ü (&uuml😉

$p = strpos ($search, "ü");
echo "POS: $p";

$p is simply empty. another test with str_replace:

$search = str_replace ("ü", "an umlaut", $search);

in this case, the string does not change. are these characters encoded in some way?

thanks in advance for your advice

kind regards
stefan

[PHPThorsten]

<?php


$search = "Wörter mit Umlauten ä/Ä, ü/Ü oder ö/Ö";

$search = str_replace("ö", "oe", $search);
$search = str_replace("ä", "ae", $search);
$search = str_replace("ü", "ue", $search);

$search = str_replace("Ö", "Oe", $search);
$search = str_replace("Ä", "Ae", $search);
$search = str_replace("Ü", "Ue", $search);

echo $search;

?>

works just fine for me...

[finger]

thanks, but that is absolutly clear to me. if i am doing it like that, it works perfekt. the difference to my current situation is, that $search gets posted via a html-form and str_replace does not work as it should.

-|stefan|-

[PHPThorsten]

Maybe this has anything to do with the magic quotes?

is your "magic_quotes_gpc" turned on in php.ini?

[finger]

yes, they are activated ...