From: gmarchand at videotron dot ca
Operating system: Linux
PHP version: 4.2.3
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Add a strip_accents function
It would be awesome if PHP had the strip_accents() function. Something like
strip_tags(), only it removes the accented letters and replace them with
their non-accented version.
For example:
<? echo strip_accents("Bonjour V�ronique, comment �a va?") ?>
gives: Bonjour Veronique, comment ca va?
I suppose it would be even better if you could have an optional parameter
of allowable accents too.
It would be very useful for searching databases.
For example: on my site, people can search a music band database, but if
they don't have the umlauts on their keyboards, and if they search for a
band like say "M�tley Cr�e" without typing the umlauts they might not find
it. So I have to use an alternate spelling field, but it would be awesome
if there were a built-in strip_accents() function. I'm sure it could have
many many more applications too :)
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Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22524&r=notwrong
Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22524&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22524&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22524&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22524&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22524&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22524&r=isapi
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