str_replace problem

[FrancoPaddy]

$navcat = strtoupper($navcat);
$stringrep = "&";
$navcat = str_replace("&", $stringrep, $navcat);

Probably making this way to complicated.

I need to take a string that sometimes has ampersands in it and make it uppercase. However, I then want bring the ampersand code & back down to lower case. I dont have a problem replacing the uppercase & with straight text or numbers, but I do with &

I imagine it may have something to do with escaping characters, but what exactly?

Any help would be appreciated 'cos I have given this silly bit of code more time than it deserves!

[laserlight]

hmm... it looks like it works. Could you provide some value of $navcat for which it does not work?

[FrancoPaddy]

Thanks for looking at it Laserlight. I am using it for data pulled from a database. Typical value might be

$navcat = "Cars & Bikes";

It comes out as CARS &AMP: BIKES

I am looking for CARS & BIKES

[laserlight]

It works for me:

<?php
$navcat = "Cars &amp; Bikes";
$navcat = strtoupper($navcat);
$stringrep = "&amp;";
$navcat = str_replace("&AMP;", $stringrep, $navcat);
echo $navcat;
?>

[FrancoPaddy]

Hi,

and you end up with CARS & BIKES ?

Weird. I am a lot foxed now!

Well, thanks for checking. Very strange

[FrancoPaddy]

I dont even want to go into how stupid I have been, suffice to say that I am sorry that I wasted your time. Saying that, if you hadnt checked I would still be stuck!

Thanks for your help!