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Feb 28.2011

I’m looking for some help with converting special characters within a string to a different character.

Current Code:

[code]<?php echo $use[‘value’] ?>[/code]

$use is an array
[‘value’] is the string within the array

I’m taking the data from $use[‘value’] and using it in a URL. The problem is if $use[‘value’] is something like “Home Projects & Hobbies” the URL gets messed up; it will look like /Home%20Projects%20&%20Hobbies.

So, if possible, I want to write a little script that will take the spaces of the string and convert them into “-” and take the “&” symbol and convert it into “and”.

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@NogDogFeb 28.2011 — Try the [url=http://php.net/str_replace]str_replace[/url]() function.
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@VinceMalauthorFeb 28.2011 — Thanks that worked
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@Matt_DMar 03.2011 — You might be interested in some of the builtin functionality PHP has to offer to handle data being passed to & from forms.

[B]htmlspecialchars_decode[/B] (http://fr.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php) coverts your html safe content back to plain text, to answer your question.

And then there is [B]htmlspecialchars[/B](http://fr.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php) which converts plain text to HTML safe content.



hope this helps
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