Issue

I am currently developing a form for a website:

When the form is validated the contents of the text is passed in a function that takes away all the accents and them by normal characters, exmple: é = e..

I would also like to replace the percentage ("%") character by "0/0".

Here's a piece of code that I've been trying to modify.

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Solution

In your case, the function converts special characters to HTML equivalents and therefore % is converted to & #37

Try this:

function wd_remove_accents($str, $charset='utf-8') { $str = htmlentities($str, ENT_NOQUOTES, $charset); $str = preg_replace('#&([A-za-z])(?:acute|cedil|circ|grave|orn|ring|slash|th|tilde|uml);#', '1', $str); $str = preg_replace('#&([A-za-z]{2})(?:lig);#', '1', $str); // pour les ligatures e.g. 'œ' $str = str_replace('%', 'O/O', $str); / $str = preg_replace('#&[^;]+;#', '', $str);

Thanks to rilazzi for this tip.

return $str;