Question

I have a string, it contains umlauts and other chars I want to replace, right now my code looks like that:

$string = preg_replace('/( +)|([()])|(\/)/', '_', $string);
$string = preg_replace('/_{1,}/', '_', $string);
$string = preg_replace('/_$/', '', $string);
$string = str_replace('ö', 'oe', $string);
$string = str_replace('ü', 'oe', $string);
$string = str_replace('ä', 'oe', $string);
$string = str_replace('Ä', 'Ae', $string);
$string = str_replace('Ü', 'Ue', $string);
$string = str_replace('Ö', 'Oe', $string);

Is there a shorter way of doing that?

Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

You could use str_replace with an array:

$find = Array(" ","(",")","/","ö","ü","ä","Ä","Ü","Ö");
$replace = Array("_","_","_","_","oe","oe","oe""Ae","Ue","Oe");
$string = str_replace($find,$replace,$string);
$string = preg_replace("/__+/","_",$string);
$string = rtrim($string,"_");