Strip out all &____ from string

[johnsmith153]

I have a text string and I want to remove any of the &___ things (I'm sure there''s a better way to describe them), such as   etc.

 

There are so many, so is there a better than trying to find out every one and str_replaceing them?

 

$new_string = str_replace(" ", "", $old_string);

[maxudaskin]

You literally have to tell PHP what you want to remove. Are you removing " " or  ? One is an HTML entity, the other is a literal character.

 

Check out html_entity_decode()

 

You could also use preg_replace.

 

<?php
$str = 'html text with entities.';
$find = '/\&.{2,6};/';
$replace = '';
echo preg_replace($find, $replace, $str);

 

That should remove any entity.

[scootstah]

Those are called HTML entities. They are basically encoded characters.   is a "non-breaking space".

 

You can decode them with html_entity_decode. If you want to remove them entirely you're going to need use a regular expression.