Okay I have a string:

$string = "ÉÄÑAsHHffdsfFJKLDWHU";

and I want to make it into:

$string = "eanashhffdsffjkldwhu";

I want to change all characters to a-z and space

    If it was just make the string all lower case that would be strtolower() but you want more than that. You will need to map which ASCI characters you want changed to what map characters you want them changed to. They just do a match and replace.

      For this, I would suggest strtr instead of str_replace.

      http://www.php.net/strtr

      I think you can just do this:

      $string = strtr($string, "ÉÄÑAsHHffdsfFJKLDWHU", "eanashhffdsffjkldwhu");

      There are more examples on the strtr page.

        do it with an array

        $change = array(
'É' => 'e',
'Ä' => 'a',
'Ñ' => 'n'
)

$str = "ÉÄÑ";

foreach($change AS $key=>$val){
    $str = str_replace($key, $val, $str);
}

echo $str;
//will echo ean

        hope that helps

        adam

          You don't even need to do it as seperate str_replaces, str_replace can handle arrays so

          <?php
$from=array('É','Ä','Ñ');
$to=array('e','a','n');
$str='ÉÄÑ';
str_replace($from,$to,$str);
?>

          HTH
          Bubble

            Yeah, but [man]strtr[/man] is most likely faster for bulk transliteration of single characters, and there's code on that page for the job besides.

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