strtr with multiple character pairs and $_POST

[Boris_Senker]

I know I am missing something here, but I simply can't figure it out after searching the forum and PHP manual.

Basically, I have a web form using mail () function that users send mail with.

Now I would like to use strtr function to replace some accented characters, and don't know how to write it to use multiple character pairs and $_POST.

Example:

if($_POST['vrsta'] == "Informacije")
		{		
		  $sendto = "[e-mail]";
		  $vrsta = $_POST['vrsta'];
		  $ime = $_POST['ime'];
		  $tvrtka = $_POST['tvrtka'];
		  $telefon = $_POST['telefon'];
		  $email  = $_POST['email'];
		  $upit = $_POST['upit'];
		  $mail_header="Return-Path:[e-mail]\n
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2";

      mail($sendto, "$vrsta", "Upit: $upit\n\n
Poslao: $ime\n\nTvrtka: $tvrtka\n\n
Telefon: $telefon",  "From: $email\n$mail_header");

Now what I would need to do here is insert strtr function into $ime, $tvrtka and $upit variables so all accented characters user enters are replaced with ordinary Cc,Zz,Ss, Dd characters.

I have tried with a single pair

$ime = strtr($_POST['ime'], "è", "c");

but obviously it's wrong - no replacement performed.

Can you please give me a hand here, how to produce the wanted with multiple character pairs and $_POST so it would work? I just can't seem to get it 🙁

[devinemke]

you are using the wrong function. you want str_replace(), not strstr().

$ime = str_replace('è', 'c', $_POST['ime']);

[Boris_Senker]

$ime = str_replace($_POST['ime'], "è", "c");

Tried this, replacement took place, and stripped all other letters from the $ime variable.

So instead of example. "car" I got "c".

However, I believe I should fiddle with properly formatted array to perform this. Geez, I am already banging my head to a table...

Anyway, after getting this to work, I even might be able to replace accented characters with proper encoding entities to really display accented characters properly at some point.

Now I've seen a solution from some Czech guy using the same codepage. I didn't get it to work because I don't understand his numerous explanations, but I'll post his code as an idea:

function CZMail($to, $subj, $text, $headers = "")
{
  // pøevedení z windows-1250 do iso-8859-2 (pokud je potøeba)	
  $text = StrTr($text, 
  				"\x8A\x8D\x8E\x9A\x9D\x9E", 
  	"\xA9\xAB\xAE\xB9\xBB\xBE");
  // pøekódování do Base64  

  $text = Base64_Encode($text);
  // pøidání hlavièek
  $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n".
              "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-2\"\n".
              "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
  // odeslání e-mailu              

  Mail($to, $subj, $text, $headers);
}

He further says 'You can send mail with diacritics now', but all I can understand from the example is he actually replaces win-1250 characters with iso-8859-2.

Can someone help me here? My hair is in the air 🙁

[devinemke]

i think you need to re-read my example code:

you are using this:

$ime = str_replace($_POST['ime'], "è", "c");

my example was this:

$ime = str_replace('è', 'c', $_POST['ime']);

[Boris_Senker]

Erm, first I did just as you instructed me:

$ime = str_replace('č', 'c', $_POST['ime']);

Entered čača into formfield

Mail returned:

èaèa - no replacement, I get the same without str_replace

Then I tried from PHP manual - obviously wrong 🙁

[devinemke]

èaèa - no replacement, I get the same without str_replace

of course there was no replacement, you are searching for the literal string:

č

which is not present in your formfield.

[Boris_Senker]

$ime = str_replace('č', 'c', $_POST['ime']);

Actually I typed this character: č but when I enlose the line into PHP tags here, it outputs UTF-8 numeric entity.

Mail output:

èaèa

Tried adding MIME:

R˜_º+£ÎëO¢ÉZ§6ói;ë¶FŠ­Š*¡7¥yú'ãž9ëŽ9ãž9 - this is the full mail output, the whole mail is garbaged.

I am beginning to think my server doesn't support iso-8859-2 or UTF-8 in SMTP. Is it possible?

[Boris_Senker]

No character replacement was necessary at all, mail issue with accented characters resolved here:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10280640

devinemke, please accept my apology for taking your time, the issue here was different.

Thanks again.