unicode2iso plugin

Category:Contributions::Plugins

The unicode2iso Plugin for CodeIgniter is a simple plugin that allow you to covert an UTF-8 string containing HTML into an ISO-8859-1 string using HTML special chars without stripping the HTML of the original string.

You have to set manually in $retrieve all HTML elements wich you allow to be retrieved.

[b]Plugin home :[/b] [url=http://www.kromack.com/codeigniter/plugin-unicode2iso-pour-codeigniter/]unicode2iso Plugin[/url]

[b]How to use :[/b]

[code] <?php

$this->load->plugin('unicode2iso');

echo unicode2iso($yourString);

?> [/code]

[b]Plugin's code :[/b]

[code] <?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

/**

• unicode2iso plugin for CodeIgniter applications

• @author : Samuel Sanchez, http://www.kromack.com/, April 2009

• @link :

• @license : free */

  /**

  • Take an UTF8 string, and return an ISO-8859-1 string with all HTML special chars encoded exept those defined in the $retrieve array.

  • @param string $str

  • @return string */ function unicode2iso($str) {

    //Define HTML elements to retrive after conversion $retrieve = array('
    ', '
    ', '
    ', '', '', '', '', '', '');

    //HTML special chars conversion $str = htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

    //ISO-8859-1 conversion $str = utf8_decode($str);

    //Now, we resore our HTML elements foreach($retrieve as $row) { $str = str_replace(htmlentities($row, ENT_QUOTES), $row, $str); }

    return $str;
    }

?> [/code]