Special Characters problem, please help

[Anon]

Hey...

When I search my database I would like it to
make "a" and "o" count as any character.

With this I could search for example after
"Jorgen" and still get the result "Jörgen" (Swedish name with special character "ö") .

How do I do this with PHP, I took a look at the php-manual without understanding, please help me out

When I was programming ASP a while ago, I solved the problem by writing

teaminput = String(teaminput);
teaminput = teaminput.replace(/'/g,"");
teaminput = teaminput.replace(/[ao]/ig,"_");
teaminput = teaminput.replace(/*/g,"%");

... but how to do it in PHP?, that is the question

[sarahk]

Hi

Not a wildly helpful reply but no one else was helping so thought I'd add my 2 cents worth. PHP does do ereg so if this approach has worked in the past I'd stick with it. The php manual details how to use it and the syntax is standard - just the call which is different.

Also look at the tutorials on this site.

Good luck