Remove the space between two words in PHP

Question

I am developing a website in PHP. In it, I am saving the images in a folder on a server.

I accept a name from user and want to use that name as the image name. Sometimes the user enters a name like two words.

So I want to remove the space between two words. For example, if the user enters as 'Paneer Pakoda dish', I want to convert it like 'PaneerPakodaDish'.

How can I do that?

I used

1) str_replace(' ', '', $str);

2) preg_replace(' ', '', $str);

3) trim($str, ' ');

But these are not giving the output as I required.

You forget php delimiters, try `preg_replace('~ ~','',$str);` — Avinash Raj, Jan 12 '16 at 04:53
The First one is working whats wrong with `str_replace` can you elaborate. — Narendrasingh Sisodia, Jan 12 '16 at 06:14
I accept input from user like : ' Paneer Pakoda Spicy Dish ' and want output like 'PaneerPakodaSpicyDish' and save as image name . — Nilesh Patil, Jan 13 '16 at 04:49
Above function gives output like 'Panner Pakoda Spicy Dish'. It remove only extra space but not concat the words — Nilesh Patil, Jan 13 '16 at 04:52

score 18 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 04 '19 at 00:02

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<?php
    $str = "Paneer Pakoda dish";
    echo str_replace(' ', '', $str);
?>

edited Jul 04 '19 at 00:02

Peter Mortensen

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answered Jan 12 '16 at 04:55

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Much better than a regular expression for this simple task – Hanky Panky Jan 12 '16 at 04:57
yes it replace only white space. – Santosh Patel Jan 12 '16 at 04:58
@Hanky웃Panky Its duplicate one of [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34735829/remove-the-space-between-two-words-in-php](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34735829/remove-the-space-between-two-words-in-php) even though you didn't closed the question – Narendrasingh Sisodia Jan 12 '16 at 06:15

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 04 '19 at 00:01

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'PaneerPakodaDish' should be the desired output.

$string = 'Paneer Pakoda dish';
$s = ucfirst($string);
$bar = ucwords(strtolower($s));
echo $data = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $bar);

It will give you the exact output 'PaneerPakodaDish' where character "D" will also be in capital.

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answered Jan 12 '16 at 05:34

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score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 04 '19 at 00:02

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The code below should work

<?php
    $test = "My Name is Amit";
    echo preg_replace("/\s+/", "", $test);
?>

edited Jul 04 '19 at 00:02

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answered Jan 12 '16 at 04:53

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no, need for `i` modifier... – Avinash Raj Jan 12 '16 at 04:54
Yes, @AvinashRaj no need for i modifier as it is space. – Amit Shah Jan 12 '16 at 04:55

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 04 '19 at 00:03

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<?php
    $char = "Lorem Ipsum Amet";
    echo str_replace(' ', '', $char);
?>

The result will look like this: LoremIpsumAmet

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answered Jan 12 '16 at 05:16

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What happens if there are 2 spaces between the words? – Paranoid Android Dec 11 '19 at 16:53
@Mirko : pass double space in str_replace ex- str_replace(' ', '', $char); – Divakarcool Dec 12 '19 at 05:57

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 04 '19 at 00:03

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You may use

echo str_replace(' ', '', $str);

trim() should be used to remove white space at the front and back end of the string.

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answered Jan 12 '16 at 04:59

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 12 '16 at 05:00

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Please try "preg_replace" for remove space between words.

$string = "Paneer Pakoda dish";
$string = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $string);
echo $string;

answered Jan 12 '16 at 05:00

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