Replacing accented characters php

Question

I am trying to replace accented characters with the normal replacements. Below is what I am currently doing.

    $string = \"Éric Cantona\";
    $strict = st         


        

Answer 1

So I found this on php.net page for preg_replace function

// replace accented chars

$string = "Zacarías Ferreíra"; // my definition for string variable
$accents = '/&([A-Za-z]{1,2})(grave|acute|circ|cedil|uml|lig);/';

$string_encoded = htmlentities($string,ENT_NOQUOTES,'UTF-8');

$string = preg_replace($accents,'$1',$string_encoded);

If you have encoding issues you may get someting like this "Zacarías Ferreíra", just decode the string and use said code above

$string = utf8_decode("Zacarías Ferreíra");