remove invalid characters from a string laravel
function hyphenize($string) {
$dict = array(
"I'm" => "I am",
"thier" => "their",
// Add your own replacements here
);
return strtolower(
preg_replace(
array( '#[\\s-]+#', '#[^A-Za-z0-9. -]+#' ),
array( '-', '' ),
// the full cleanString() can be downloaded from http://www.unexpectedit.com/php/php-clean-string-of-utf8-chars-convert-to-similar-ascii-char
cleanString(
str_replace( // preg_replace can be used to support more complicated replacements
array_keys($dict),
array_values($dict),
urldecode($string)
)
)
)
);
}
function cleanString($text) {
$utf8 = array(
'/[áàâãªä]/u' => 'a',
'/[ÁÀÂÃÄ]/u' => 'A',
'/[ÍÌÎÏ]/u' => 'I',
'/[íìîï]/u' => 'i',
'/[éèêë]/u' => 'e',
'/[ÉÈÊË]/u' => 'E',
'/[óòôõºö]/u' => 'o',
'/[ÓÒÔÕÖ]/u' => 'O',
'/[úùûü]/u' => 'u',
'/[ÚÙÛÜ]/u' => 'U',
'/ç/' => 'c',
'/Ç/' => 'C',
'/ñ/' => 'n',
'/Ñ/' => 'N',
'/–/' => '-', // UTF-8 hyphen to "normal" hyphen
'/[’‘‹›‚]/u' => ' ', // Literally a single quote
'/[“”«»„]/u' => ' ', // Double quote
'/ /' => ' ', // nonbreaking space (equiv. to 0x160)
);
return preg_replace(array_keys($utf8), array_values($utf8), $text);
}