Removing erroneous characters

[k3str3l]

Hi, not sure if this is a newbie question or not but, I need to remove incorrect characters from a string.

So lets say the string is 'T^he Gold$£en R0"!ad'

and i want to echo out 'The Golden Road'

i have experimented with the trim function but could only remove the first bad character.

Any ideas?😕

thanks

[Weedpacket]

[man]preg_replace[/man]('/[^insert valid characters here]/', '', $string);

[TitanKing]

To add to this, if you want to save data in a database with weird characters use:

mysql_real_escape_string();

very useful function 🙂 !