str_replace to find and fix weird quotes

How would I go about replacing weird quotes?

ex: ‘,’, “, and ”.

Code:

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$vCLEANED = str_replace("'", "\'", $vSlashes);
        $vCLEANED = str_replace('"', '\"', $vCLEANED);
        $vCLEANED = str_replace("’", "\'", $vCLEANED);

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First two lines work, third one does not.

These are apparently latin extended A and B
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm (bottom)

Have a look at addslashes(); http://uk.php.net/add_slashes

If this data is going in a database though I suggest you use an abstraction layer such as Pear::MDB or PDO as they will automatically handle the escaping of data for you.


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Quote:

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Originally Posted by visualAd

Have a look at addslashes(); http://uk.php.net/add_slashes

If this data is going in a database though I suggest you use an abstraction layer such as Pear::MDB or PDO as they will automatically handle the escaping of data for you.


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add_slashes gives me the same issue.

I need some voodoo which lets me detect them so I can replace them with a real '.

The DB is a mysql, and its for a internal intranet site were securty is not very high.

edit: and

Code:

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$vCLEANED = str_replace(chr(402), "\'", $vCLEANED);

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also does not work.

edit2: and to top of all the fun... I had two scripts. One of them was working, the other was not. Then I merged them (but without really touching the first) and now they both dont work....

I understand what you are saying now. You need to find the character code when it reaches your script as a different character encoding on the client side can yeild different results on the server side.