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strtr is a php function that translates characters in a string, either by using an additional "to" and "from" translation string, or a single to=>from key=>value array.

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When to use strtr vs str_replace?

I'm having a hard time understanding when strtr would be preferable to str_replace or vice versa. It seems that it's possible to achieve the exact same results using either function, although the order in which substrings are replaced is reversed.…
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PHP: Replace umlauts with closest 7-bit ASCII equivalent in an UTF-8 string

What I want to do is to remove all accents and umlauts from a string, turning "lärm" into "larm" or "andré" into "andre". What I tried to do was to utf8_decode the string and then use strtr on it, but since my source file is saved as UTF-8 file, I…
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How to use strtr() to translate multibyte/accented/diacritic characters?

Does anyone have a multibyte variant of the strtr() function? Example of desired usage: Example: $from = 'ľľščťžýáíŕďňäô'; // these chars are in UTF-8 $to = 'llsctzyairdnao'; // input - in UTF-8 $str = 'Kŕdeľ ďatľov učí koňa žrať kôru.'; $str …
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How do I do a strtr on UTF-8 in PHP?

I'm looking for a UTF-8 compatible strtr for PHP.
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A better way to replace emoticons in PHP?

Right now I am using this function for emoticons: function emoticons($text) { $icons = array( ':)' => 'smile', ':-)' => '
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PHP: Problem converting characters with strtr

I've got the following code from php.net: $GLOBALS['normalizeChars'] = array( 'Š'=>'S', 'š'=>'s', 'Ð'=>'Dj','Ž'=>'Z', 'ž'=>'z', 'À'=>'A', 'Á'=>'A', 'Â'=>'A', 'Ã'=>'A', 'Ä'=>'A', 'Å'=>'A', 'Æ'=>'A', 'Ç'=>'C', 'È'=>'E', 'É'=>'E', 'Ê'=>'E', 'Ë'=>'E',…
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Conversion of strtr php function in C#

Need to convert this php code in C# strtr($input, '+/', '-_') Does an equivalent C# function exist?
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exchanging values of a variable, by values of an array, but under condition

I have a code that compares the output with the values of the array, and only terminates the operation with words in the array: First code(just a example) $myVar = 'essa pizza é muito gostosa, que prato de bom sabor'; $myWords=array( …
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strtr acting weird - removing diacritics from a string

I'm having hard times removing diacritics from some $string. My code is
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strtr function not working

How are you. Hope Fine... I am facing a problem with the following code. The strtr function isn't working. It doesn't output anything... if ($translate == "DrChatrikWeb") { $convertarray = array( "~" => "~", "!" => "!", "@" => "@", "#" => "#", "$"…
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PHP strtr does not work at all

Even when i type echo strtr("-äåö-", "äåö", "xxx"); it does not work properly it outputs this >xxx¥x¶<, however when i use example below it does not translate nothing at all it keeps original mambo jumbo. If i type in form…
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PHP Case-insensitive equivalent of strtr

Where I could find a case-insensitive version of strtr? strtr is overloaded, I am talking about the following one string strtr ( string $str , array $replace_pairs )
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Translating with strtr in PHP fails when mixing placeholders and japanese

I'm using strtr to make translations and since I started using Japanese, it fails to replace placeholders. Here is an example string: ％service％ で入力してください If I just run the code below, it will not replace %service% placeholder: strtr("％service％…
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How to parse a string into multiple variables based on an input mask indicating the order?

Assuming you start with this: $mask = "%name% (%user_count%) - %acyr% - %audience%"; $data = [ '%name%' => $group['name'], '%user_count%' => $group['user_count'], '%acyr%' => $group['acyr'], '%audience%' =>…
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strrchr with strtr or str_replace in PHP

I have searched a lot of sites and SO answers for replacing characters in strings, but I didn't find a solution. I need to replace only the last used character 'é' of a string. It should work for every string, also if the string only contains once…
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