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.
Plugin home : unicode2iso Plugin
How to use :
<?php
$this->load->plugin('unicode2iso');
echo unicode2iso($yourString);
?>
Plugin’s 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('<br>', '<br />', '<br/>', '<u>', '</u>', '<i>', '</i>', '<b>', '</b>');
//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;
}
?>