[ILUG] Need PHP function to convert from Irish fada characters to plain ascii equivs

[Kae Verens]

Barry Flanagan wrote:
> It's OK. The following function does do the trick. My problem was with
> needing to run the words though utfdecode() first.
> 
> function accents($text) {
> 
>    $search  = array ('á', 'é', 'í', 'ó', 'ú', 'Á', 'É', 'Í', 'Ó', 'Ú');
>    $replace = array ('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U');
>    $newtext    = str_replace($search, $replace, $text);
>    return $newtext;
> }


I tend to cut things like that down:

function strip_accents($text){
	return str_replace(
		array ('á', 'é', 'í', 'ó', 'ú', 'Á', 'É', 'Í', 'Ó', 'Ú'),
		array ('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U'),
		$text)
	);
}

that's probably a little faster as well (no obvious variables made, versus 3 
variables by your one).

Kae