Sometimes you may want to clean a filename or string from foreign languages characters; with this class you can do both.
Install via composer:
composer require vgd/sanitize_string
or
require('SanitizeString.php');
The class uses two boolean parameters after the string/filename:
The first one (isFileName) is used to tell the class that you are trying to clean a file name.
The second one (special) must be used if you would like to remove special characters as well from a
string or a file name.
To remove foreign characters only:
echo SanitizeString::clean('Your string here');
To remove foreign AND special characters:
echo SanitizeString::clean('Your string here', false, true);
To remove foreign characters only:
SanitizeString::clean('Your filename here', true, false);
To remove foreign AND special characters:
SanitizeString::clean('Your filename here', true, true);
You can use absolute or relative paths for the file you want to rename.
The main purpose of using associative arrays and not other techniques as regular
expressions and preg_match etc. was to give the user the possibility of add or remove
characters depending of their needs.
Lets say that you have a spanish text and you want to remove all the characters but vowels
with tilde and ñ characters; you can modify the arrays to achieve that.