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PHP Clean String of UTF8 Chars – Convert to similar ASCII char

admin — Sat, 28 May 2011 14:29:44 +0000

	/**
	* Returns an string clean of UTF8 characters. It will convert them to a similar ASCII character
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	*/
function cleanString($text) {
	// 1) convert á ô => a o
	$text = preg_replace("/[áàâãªä]/u","a",$text);
	$text = preg_replace("/[ÁÀÂÃÄ]/u","A",$text);
	$text = preg_replace("/[ÍÌÎÏ]/u","I",$text);
	$text = preg_replace("/[íìîï]/u","i",$text);
	$text = preg_replace("/[éèêë]/u","e",$text);
	$text = preg_replace("/[ÉÈÊË]/u","E",$text);
	$text = preg_replace("/[óòôõºö]/u","o",$text);
	$text = preg_replace("/[ÓÒÔÕÖ]/u","O",$text);
	$text = preg_replace("/[úùûü]/u","u",$text);
	$text = preg_replace("/[ÚÙÛÜ]/u","U",$text);
	$text = preg_replace("/[’‘‹›‚]/u","'",$text);
	$text = preg_replace("/[“”«»„]/u",'"',$text);
	$text = str_replace("–","-",$text);
	$text = str_replace(" "," ",$text);
	$text = str_replace("ç","c",$text);
	$text = str_replace("Ç","C",$text);
	$text = str_replace("ñ","n",$text);
	$text = str_replace("Ñ","N",$text);

	//2) Translation CP1252. – => -
	$trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
	$trans[chr(130)] = '‚';    // Single Low-9 Quotation Mark
	$trans[chr(131)] = 'ƒ';    // Latin Small Letter F With Hook
	$trans[chr(132)] = '„';    // Double Low-9 Quotation Mark
	$trans[chr(133)] = '…';    // Horizontal Ellipsis
	$trans[chr(134)] = '†';    // Dagger
	$trans[chr(135)] = '‡';    // Double Dagger
	$trans[chr(136)] = 'ˆ';    // Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent
	$trans[chr(137)] = '‰';    // Per Mille Sign
	$trans[chr(138)] = 'Š';    // Latin Capital Letter S With Caron
	$trans[chr(139)] = '‹';    // Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark
	$trans[chr(140)] = 'Œ';    // Latin Capital Ligature OE
	$trans[chr(145)] = '‘';    // Left Single Quotation Mark
	$trans[chr(146)] = '’';    // Right Single Quotation Mark
	$trans[chr(147)] = '“';    // Left Double Quotation Mark
	$trans[chr(148)] = '”';    // Right Double Quotation Mark
	$trans[chr(149)] = '•';    // Bullet
	$trans[chr(150)] = '–';    // En Dash
	$trans[chr(151)] = '—';    // Em Dash
	$trans[chr(152)] = '˜';    // Small Tilde
	$trans[chr(153)] = '™';    // Trade Mark Sign
	$trans[chr(154)] = 'š';    // Latin Small Letter S With Caron
	$trans[chr(155)] = '›';    // Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark
	$trans[chr(156)] = 'œ';    // Latin Small Ligature OE
	$trans[chr(159)] = 'Ÿ';    // Latin Capital Letter Y With Diaeresis
	$trans['euro'] = '€';    // euro currency symbol
	ksort($trans); 

	foreach ($trans as $k => $v) {
		$text = str_replace($v, $k, $text);
	}

	// 3) remove , 
 ...
	$text = strip_tags($text); 

	// 4) & => & " => '
	$text = html_entity_decode($text);

	// 5) remove Windows-1252 symbols like "TradeMark", "Euro"...
	$text = preg_replace('/[^(\x20-\x7F)]*/','', $text); 

	$targets=array('\r\n','\n','\r','\t');
	$results=array(" "," "," ","");
	$text = str_replace($targets,$results,$text);

	return ($text);
}

Usage:

	$val = "Arômes ... óòôõº ... áéíóú ... Barça ... “Windows quotes” ... this is not a normal space ( ) ... this is not a normal dash (–) ... Esdrújula ... Wünderlist ...   ... & ... & ... ’ ... – ... £ ... € ...   ... 	...";
	echo cleanString($val);
	//result: Aromes ... ooooo ... aeiou ... Barca ... "Windows quotes" ... this is not a normal space ( ) ... this is not a normal dash (-) ... Esdrujula ... Wunderlist ... ... & ... & ... ... ... ... euro ... ... ...

	//Note: If you get an empty string, make sure you pass utf8 string to the function
	echo cleanString(utf8_encode($val));

PHP Networking – Http Request

admin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:18:00 +0000

//Header to create a file and send to the browser
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"filename.xml\"");
$data='' . "\n";
$data.='My Data' . "\n";
echo $data;

//Header to send an existing file to the browser
$filename = '/var/www/html/rates.csv';
header('Content-type: application/csv');
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=".$filename);
readfile($filename);

PHP Handling Non-English Characters UTF8

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:49:25 +0000

	/**
	* Returns an string with the same length.
	* - If it is smaller than num it will fill out with the fill character.
	* - If it is larger than num it will cut the string.
	* www.unexpectedit.com
	*/
	function formatcell($data, $num, $fill=' '){
	    $data = trim($data);
		$data=str_replace(chr(13),' ',$data);
		$data=str_replace(chr(10),' ',$data);
		// translate UTF8 to English characters
		$data = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $data);
		$data = preg_replace("/[\'\"\^\~\`]/i", '', $data);

		// fill it up with spaces
    	for ($i = strlen($data); $i < $num; $i++) {
    		$data .= $fill;
    	}
    	// limit string to num characters
   		$data = substr($data, 0, $num);

		return $data;
    }

    echo formatcell("YES UTF8 String Zürich", 25, 'x'); //YES UTF8 String ZÃ¼richxxx
    echo formatcell("NON UTF8 String Zurich", 25, 'x'); //NON UTF8 String Zurichxxx

.htaccess PHP Error Reporting

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:59:27 +0000

php_flag display_errors off
php_value error_reporting 7

PHP mysqldump Script – Backup a MySQL Database

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:48:16 +0000

/**
* PHP mysqldump Script
* www.unexpectedit.com
*/
$dbname="magentoDatabase";
$dbhost="localhost";
$dbuser="root";
$dbpass="123456";

$backupFile = $dbname . date("Y-m-d-H-i-s")  . '.gz';
$command = "mysqldump --opt -h $dbhost -u'$dbuser' -p'$dbpass' $dbname | gzip > $backupFile";
$returned = system($command);
echo $returned;

PHP Email Functions

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:20:45 +0000

/**
* PHP Email Functions
* www.unexpectedit.com
*/
function sendEmail($to, $from, $subject, $message, $files) {
	$headers = "From: $from";
	// boundary
	$semi_rand = md5(time());
	$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
	// headers for attachment
	$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
	// multipart boundary
	$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";
	$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";
	// preparing attachments
	for($x=0;$x

PHP Browser Functions

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:03:45 +0000

/**
* Browser Detection Functions
* www.unexpectedit.com
*/
function inAgent($agent) {
	global $_SERVER;
	return (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], $agent) === false) ? false : true;
}

function whichBrowser() {
	/*
	* $browser will contain one of the following values:
	* 'iewin' : IE 4+ for Windows
	* 'iemac' : IE 4 for Macintosh
	* 'ie5mac' : IE 5 Macintosh
	* 'nswin' : Netscape 4.x Windows
	* 'nsunix' : Netscape 4.x Unix
	* 'nsmac' : Netscape 4.x Mac
	* 'ns6' : Netscape 6 / Mozilla
	*/
	switch (inAgent('MSIE'))
	{
		case true:
			if ( inAgent('Mac') ) {
				$browser = inAgent('MSIE 5') ? 'ie5mac' : 'ie4mac';
			}
			elseif ( inAgent('Win') )
			{
				$browser = 'iewin';
			}
			break;

		case false:
			if (inAgent('Mozilla/5')) {
				$browser = 'ns6';
			}
			elseif (inAgent('Mozilla/4'))
			{
				if ( inAgent('Mac'))
				{
					$browser = 'nsmac';
				}
				else
				{
				$browser = (inAgent('Win')) ? 'nswin' : 'nsunix';
				}
			}
			else
			{
				$browser = "unknown";
			}
			break;
	}
	return($browser);
}

// browser detection - end
switch (whichBrowser())
{
	case 'iewin': case 'iemac': case 'ie5mac':
		echo "independent";
		break;
	case 'nswin': case 'nsunix': case 'nsmac': case 'ns6':
		echo "microsoft";
		break;
}

PHP Security Functions

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:39:58 +0000

/**
* Security Functions
* www.unexpectedit.com
*/
//UID generate unique random number/letters or a random password
function generateUID($length=32) {
	$pass="";
	for($k=0; $k < $length; $k++) {
		$prob = mt_rand(1,10);
		if($prob <= 3) // A-Z probability: 30%
			$pass .=  chr(mt_rand(65,90));
		if($prob <= 6 )   //a-z probability is 30%
			$pass .= chr(mt_rand(97,122));
		else //0-9 probability is 40%
			$pass .= chr(mt_rand(48, 57));
	}
	return $pass;
}

PHP Send Mail Function

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:57:59 +0000

/**
* Send an email with file attached
* www.unexpectedit.com
*/
public function send($fileatt, $from, $to) {
 $headers = "From: "."ordermanagement@handpickedcollection.com";
 $semi_rand = md5(time());
 $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
  $headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
    "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
    " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
  $email_message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
   "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
   "Content-Type:text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
   "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n";
   /* PREPARE ATTACHMENT */
   $fileatt_type = "application/octet-stream";
   $file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
   $data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
   fclose($file);
   $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
   $email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
   "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\n" .
   " name=\"{$fileatt}\"\n" .
   "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
   $data . "\n\n" .
   "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";
   $strto=gmdate("dS M,Y H:i", strtotime($to));
   $ok = mail("ignacio@richardmason.net", "Unprocessed orders:      $strto", $email_message, $headers);
   return($ok);
 }

PHP Text Manipulation Functions

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:41:25 +0000

/**
* Text Manipulation Functions
* www.unexpectedit.com
*/
function html_cut_text($text,$limit) {
	$max_code=8; // max for special code like ‰ á ...
	if(($limit<>0)&&(strlen($text)>$limit)) {
		$pos=strpos(substr($text,0,$limit+$max_code),';'); //find ;
	if($pos) // cut when pass ;
		$text=substr($text,0,$pos+1);
	else //cut at limit
		$text=substr($text,0,$limit);
	return($text."...");
	}
	else
		return($text); // return
}