Text Modification

Rictus

Hi. After a search on this forums I don't have an answer to my problem... so I will post it.

I'm just looking a way to find special characters on a text and change them to the correct HTML standard to display this character. Example--> if I write something like this código -- the script will change it to c&oacutedigo

OK here is the problem. I know that there's many text editors out there do this, but all of them are to specialized and I just want this for a simple form in which the only special task that I need is thisone.

bpat1434

[man]htmlspecialchars/man

Run the posted text through that function to see if it gives you want you want.

Alternatively there's also [man]get_html_translations_table/man to use for "translating" certain characters. That may be more up your alley.

Rictus

Thanks for the response -- I will try that and also this. Whatever works I will post it. If any one have any other idea ...well post it...

<?php
$string = 'text with characters óñúáíé.';
$patterns[0] = '/ó/';
$patterns[1] = '/ñ/';
$patterns[2] = '/é/';
$replacements[2] = '&ocute;';
$replacements[1] = '&ocute;';
$replacements[0] = '&ocute;';
echo preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $string);
?>

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

Rictus

htmlentities() seems to work on the direction or removing the speciall characters...I want it the oposite - adding the speciall characters.

If the people using my forms write something with speciall characters I will like to store it in the way that HTML understand it.

Rictus

Well I find this... And it seems that It should work...Thanks a lot...I find this on the htmlentities() PHP manual!!!

To reverse the action of htmlspecialchars(), use this code:

<?php
unhtmlspecialchars( $string )
{
$string = str_replace ( '&', '&', $string );
$string = str_replace ( ''', '\'', $string );
$string = str_replace ( '"', '\"', $string );
$string = str_replace ( '<', '<', $string );
$string = str_replace ( '>', '>', $string );

   return $string;

}
?>

bpat1434

There's also [man]htmlspecialchars_decode/man. A function that does exactly what you're doing 😉