Remove Non English Characters PHP

Question

hey,

how can i parse a string to remove all non english characters in php

right now I want to remove things like

სოფო ნი�

Thanks :)

Answer 1

By using preg_replace()

$string = "some სოფო text"; 
$string = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9_ ]/i', '', $string); 

echo $string;

Granted, you will need to expand the preg_replace pattern, but that is one way to do it. There is probably a better way, I just do not know it.

Answer 2

$str = preg_replace('/[^\00-\255]+/u', '', $str);