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São Paulo, 20 October 2011 10:33 GMT

Zag Filter CharConvert
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The CharConverter is a simple plugin that does the conversion from UTF-8 to
ASCII removing accents and other characters not used in English for example.


In situations where this filter could be useful?
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The CharConverter to be useful for example to create friendly URL's as shown in
the example below;


Examples
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1) Passing parameter as array 
$filter1 = new Zag_Filter_CharConvert(array(
    'replaceWhiteSpace' => '-',
    'locale' => 'en_US',
    'charset'=> 'UTF-8'
));

echo $filter1->filter('ééé ááá 90');//eee-aaa-90
echo $filter1->filter('óóó 10aáééé');//ooo-10aaeee


2) Passing parameter as arguments

$filter2 = new Zag_Filter_CharConvert('UTF-8', 'en_US', '-');
echo $filter2->filter('éééé ááááá 90');//eeee-aaaaa-90


3) Using default behavior

$filter3 = new Zag_Filter_CharConvert();
echo $filter3->filter('éééé ááááá 90');//eeee aaaaa 90