[tobor]

From é ê è to e?
Anyone know how, nothing is working for me right now.
I suck at regular expresions.

[tobor]

had a coffee... figured it out.

[Larixk]

care to share for future users who search with the same problem and stumble upon this topic?

[tobor]

PHP Code:

// create function to remove accents
    function removeAccents($remove_from)
    {
        // Remove all instances of accents
        $accent_array = array(
            'e' => array('é','è','ê','ë'),
            'E' => array('É','È','Ê','Ë'),
            'a' => array('á','à','â','ä','å'),
            'A' => array('Á','À','Â','Ä','Å')
        );
        foreach($accent_array as $acc_key => $acc_val_array)
        {
            $reg_exp_accent = '';// clear regular expression var
            for($m=0;$m<count($acc_val_array);$m++)
            {
                $reg_exp_accent .= $acc_val_array[$m].'|';// create the regular expression var
            }
            $reg_exp_accent = substr_replace($reg_exp_accent,"",-1);// remove last '|'
            
            $remove_from = ereg_replace($reg_exp_accent,$acc_key,$remove_from);
        }
        
        return $remove_from;
    } 


not the greatest thing ever, but working...

Example of use:

PHP Code:

removeAccents($_POST['french_text']);