Chars and Special Chars

[Rommeo]

There is some special chars for a multi language website

I was using these this for english text ;

$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#[^a-z]#i', '', $text));
return $text;

But I want to allow some special chars like : "ş,ç,ı,ö,ü"also uppercase of these "ŞÇIÖÜ"

How can I do it ?

 

Thank you in advance.

[Daniel0]

Set the correct locale using set_locale and use \W. Otherwise just specify the characters manually in your character class.

 

[Rommeo]

Set the correct locale using set_locale and use \W. Otherwise just specify the characters manually in your character class.

 

I have made it like :

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'tr_TR');
$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#[^a-z]#i', '', $text));
return $text;

it does not work yet, by the way what you mean by "\w" ?

I m sorry that I m not good about php, I also tried

$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#[^a-zşçöü]#i', '', $text));
return $text; 

and it did not work.

[Daniel0]

$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#\W#', '', $text));

 

http://php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.backslash.php

 

[Rommeo]

$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#\W#', '', $text));

 

http://php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.backslash.php

 

unfortunately it did not work.

function

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'tr_TR');
$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#\W#', '', $text));

input : çamaşır

output : %C3ama%C5%C4r[/code]

[Daniel0]

Seems to work fine for me... What exactly do you want? What did you expect as output?

 

The code does exactly what it says. It'll replace any non-word characters as defined by the tr_TR locale with nothing and then encode the entire URL.

[Rommeo]

Seems to work fine for me... What exactly do you want? What did you expect as output?

 

The code does exactly what it says. It'll replace any non-word characters as defined by the tr_TR locale with nothing and then encode the entire URL.

For example when I enter çamaşır it should give me çamaşır again. ( I'm just trying to remove number from TR string )

so this was the code I was using :

$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#[^a-z]#i', '', $text));
return $text;

the problem:

input : çamaşır

output : amar

I edited that code now it's :

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL');
$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#[^a-z]#i', '', $text));
return $text;

input : çamaşır

output : %C3ama%C5%C4r

 

Since the names can contain TR chars, I just want to remove numbers and leave the rest as they are.

[Daniel0]

Well, that's because you're urlencode'ing it. \W excludes digits as well, so if you want you can go back and replace \d with nothing again.

[Rommeo]

Well, that's because you're urlencode'ing it. \W excludes digits as well, so if you want you can go back and replace \d with nothing again.

noway Daniel0, I tried what you have told me.

I removed urlencode, I also used \d after "$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#[^0-9]#i', '', $text));" it does not give me the correct text yet.

[Daniel0]

You're talking a lot about what is incorrect. How about telling me what would be the correct output?

 

Try this:

$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#[\W\d]#', '', $text));

[Rommeo]

You're talking a lot about what is incorrect. How about telling me what would be the correct output?

 

Try this:

$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#[\W\d]#', '', $text));

The correct output is :

input : çamaşır

output : çamaşır

 

input : çamaşır14

output : çamaşır

 

input : camaŞır111

output : camaŞır

 

I just want to remove numbers and leave the rest as they are.

Now I tried :

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'tr_TR');
$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#\W\d#', '', $text));
return $text;

it gives me :

input : çamaşır111

output : %C3%A7ama%C5%9F%C4%B1r111

correct output which must be : çamaşır

 

I just want to remove numbers from "name" field.

[Brandon_R]

$result = preg_replace('#[0-9]#', '', $text);

 

 

[Rommeo]

$result = preg_replace('#[0-9]#', '', $text);

ok let's say

I want to take all the EN chars plus TR special chars

and I dont want any chars like "@ < .......... etc" also the numbers

so white list would be better for this.

[cags]

You're talking a lot about what is incorrect. How about telling me what would be the correct output?

 

Try this:

$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#[\W\d]#', '', $text));

The correct output is :

input : çamaşır

output : çamaşır

 

input : çamaşır14

output : çamaşır

 

input : camaŞır111

output : camaŞır

 

I just want to remove numbers and leave the rest as they are.

Now I tried :

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'tr_TR');
$text = urlencode(preg_replace('#\W\d#', '', $text));
return $text;

it gives me :

input : çamaşır111

output : %C3%A7ama%C5%9F%C4%B1r111

correct output which must be : çamaşır

 

I just want to remove numbers from "name" field.

As daniel0 already explained, by passing the value through urlencode you will NEVER get çamaşır as an output, you would get %C3ama%C5%9F%C4r, since none of those 'non-english' characters are URL safe. I don't know what characters are included in the locale tr_TR and I also don't know what characters you are getting that you don't want, but the 'longhand' way of doing what your after is simply...

 

$input = "Çamaşır14";
$output = (preg_replace('#[^a-zA-ZşçıöüŞÇIÖÜ]#', '', $input));
echo "$input becomes $output";

[Rommeo]

Yess..

Thank you so much for all your help

Daniel0 : $text = urlencode(preg_replace('#[\W\d]#', '', $text)); is working actually,  I forgot to remove that urlencode, when I remove it, it gives me the correct output

 

cags: yes, that one works also, I tried that function also it gives me the correct output. thank you so much.

 

 

[cags]

Glad it's working, don't forget to mark the topic as solved 'Mark Solved' (or something similar) button located bottom left of threads you start.