Change letters in a string

[JJohnsenDK]

Hey

 

How do i change letters in a string. And not just one letter.

 

For example this string "Småbørn". Here are to none english letters which i want to change to english letters so i get: "Smaborn".

 

How do i do this?

 

$name = "Småbørn";
	$len = strlen($name);
	$returnName = "";
	for($i=0;$i<$len;$i++){
		$letter = substr($name, $i, 1);
		echo "d";
		if(strpos($letter, "å")){
			$returnName .= str_replace("å", "a", $letter);
		}elseif(strpos($letter, "ø")){
			$returnName .= str_replace("ø", "o", $letter);
		}elseif(strpos($letter, "å")){
			$returnName .= str_replace("å", "a", $letter);
		}else{
			$returnName .= $letter;
		}
	}
                          echo $returnName;

 

but it sucks. It doesnt work. Any ideas?

[lemmin]

You should probably use preg_replace().

 

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

 

Good luck!

[JJohnsenDK]

sry for late reply... preg_replace doesnt help me much here? how should this be better than str_replace?

[berridgeab]

I don't understand why you have an IF statement and a WHILE loop within your code. If your just looking to replace them characters with English characters then why not just use the str_replace() on its own? i.e

 

$name = "Småbørn";
$name = str_replace("å", "a", $name);
$name = str_replace("ø", "o", $name);
$name = str_replace("å", "a", $name);
echo $name;

 

This worked fine for me.

[JJohnsenDK]

also works for me... thanks alot mate!