[SOLVED] How do I deal with this kind of user input " ’ " for instance

[Andarian]

I have a function that, among other things, does htmlentities on user input.

 

It all works fine until someone enters a char like ’  (this is not a quote).

It happens when users first write their input in a word document then copy paste it to the text field and send the form.

 

I guess I can do preg_replace('`','\'',$input) but I will probably be missing some other annoying characters too...

 

 

 

 

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

This link discuss what HTML/Unicode values exist - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_quotes

[Andarian]

I see they have an html entity translation,

is there a PHP command that does this?

 

something that translates ’  into ‘

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The table that htmlentities uses (there is a get_html_translation_table() function that retrieves the values) does not contain those values. You would need to write a function to specifically convert those characters or retrieve the existing htmlentities table, add the additional characters and entity values to it, then use this new combined array to convert your data.

 

Edit: The strtr() function could be used if you choose to use the combined array method.

[Andarian]

nice!

 

thanks a lot for your help!