[Resolved] deleting &nb sp; from a string.

[bad76]

Hi,
i've to remove any &nb sp; from a string.

My code wan't work...

  $tipo=html_entity_decode(strip_tags($name[0][3]));
  $tipo=trim($tipo);

any hint?

P.s:don't focus on strip_tags, i put it just to remove other tag...

[Bijan]

$str = "this   is only  a test";
$str = str_replace( " ", "", $str );
echo $str;

[bad76]

WOW what bug in my head !!!

I've already tried this, but don't work too.
Looking your code, i know because:

$tipo=html_entity_decode(strip_tags($name[0][3]));
$tipo=str_replace( " ", "", $tipo ); 
mysql_query("INSERT INTO table VALUES 0,'$tipo'");

I FIRST remove html_entity and next str_replace 🙁

The right is

$tipo=strip_tags($name[0][3]);
$tipo=str_replace( " ", "", $tipo ); 
mysql_query("INSERT INTO table VALUES 0,'$tipo'");

that work fine...

thanks a lot.

P.s: but i can't know why trim() has no effect...

[Weedpacket]

You can't use str_replace()?

[bad76]

Yes, and work fine. Is already online...

But why trim() don't removes any blank ?!? it's a mistery....

[Weedpacket]

Well, you haven't got trim() there now (it would go after the str_replace(), in case of things like "     blah").

[bad76]

Yes, but look this (from first post🙂 :

$tipo=html_entity_decode("   somewords");
$tipo=trim($tipo);

At first $tipo is equals to " somewords" right?
Then when i trim it i have to got just "somewords", withaout leading blank, but doesn't work... I use trim() function in other script and i wonder if this function fail in some case...

p.s.: naturally this editor remove multiple blank before somewords... i've putted three blank...