Question

Dear folks, in order to remove some really crazy /%A/%E\%FD occuring in the urls by freaking translation software, i am trying to seed some order into the url chaos:

$search   = array(' ',  ',',  '/',  '\',  'amp%3B',  '+',  '--',  '[',  ']');
$replace  = array('-',  '' ,  '' ,  '',   ''       ,  '' ,  '-' ,  '' ,  '' );

Worked fine untill I added the ‘\’ apparently thats a special char?!

Q1. First question: ERROR '\' How to I capture a single (one) \ ?

Q2. Neigher & or amp%3B or & capture and ampercant? what to do capture that from url?

Q3. Enhancement Sugestions? that I have forgotten to make this really timeless?
In other words: are there any other special chars in url that can break the logic like the ‘/’ which represents folder structures that I happily found out myself and removed, not allowed it to be in the url.

Answer 1

Does this help you??

$string = '/var/www/vhosts/site.com/httpdocs/webpage-\xec\x8b\xa0\xeb\x85\x84-\xec\xb9\xb4\xeb\x93\x9c-\xed\x81\xac\xeb\xa6\xac\xec\x8a\xa4\xeb\xa7\x88\xec\x8a\xa4-\xec\xb9\xb4\xeb\x93    \x9c';

$search   = array(' ',  ',',  '/',  '\\',  'amp%3B',  '+',  '--',  '[',  ']');

$replace  = array('-',  '' ,  '' ,  '',   ''       ,  '' ,  '-' ,  '' ,  '' );

$count=0;
foreach($search as $sch)
{
    $string =  str_replace($sch, $replace[$count], $string);
    $count++;
}

echo $string;