Hi Guys,
In this example,I will leran you how to remove special character from string in php.
you will simply and easy to use preg_replace() and str_replace() in php.
Sometimes we need to get result of an input string as a simple composition of alphabets and numbers and we want to remove all special characters by using preg_replace.
you will check to remove special character from string in php.bellow example
Example 1 : Using preg_replace
<?php
function RemoveSpecialCharacters($string){
$result = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9_ -]/s','', $string);
return $result;
}
echo RemoveSpecialCharacters("This - text ! has \\ /allot # of % special % characters");
?>
output :
This - text has allot of special characters
Example 2 : Using str_replace
<?php
function RemoveSpecialCharacters($string){
$result = str_replace( array( '\'', '"', ',' , ';', '', '!' ), ' ', $string);
return $result;
}
echo RemoveSpecialCharacters("This - text ! has \\ /allot # of % special % characters");
?>
output :
This - text has allot of special characters
It will help you.....