February 15, 2010

How to clean a string using php code

The following script will be clean a string, this code fill helpful when going send a string to url that means using get method using php.

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function CleaningAString($string)
{
$string = strtolower($string);
// Replace other special chars
$specialCharacters = array(
'#' => 'sharp',
'$' => 'dollar',
'%' => 'percent',
'&' => 'and',
'@' => 'at',
'€' => 'euro',
'+' => 'plus',
'=' => 'equals to',
'§' => 'paragraph',
);
while (list($character, $replacement) = each($specialCharacters)) {
$string = str_replace($character, '-' . $replacement . '-', $string);
}
return $string;
}

This code will replace the all special characters to string using following this php function.

I hope that it will be helpful.