removing bad characters

Hi, I need to remove incorrect characters from a string.

So lets say the string is 'T^^he Gold$£en R0"!ad'

and i want to echo out 'The Golden Road'

i have experimented with the trim function but could only remove the first bad character.

Any ideas?

thanks

 

<?php

$domain = "T^^he Gold$£en R0\"!ad";


$toberemoved = array("^","/",":","$","*","&","@","%","(","{","£","!"); // add any char to be removed ...


$domain = str_replace ($toberemoved,"" ,$domain);

?>

PHP:

 

The posted method almost works but not quite, is there a while loop method i could use to remove characters between certain ascii value range?

 

you will have to use preg replace

 

What do you mean by almost but not quite?
Rather than throw out characters within a "bad set", consider keeping only the characters within a "good set".

 

function alpha( $string )
{
	return preg_replace( '([^a-zA-Z ]+)', '', $string );	
}
echo alpha( 'T^^he Gold$£en Ro!ad' )

PHP:

 

Consider inserting 0-9 as well if you want to retain numbers too.
Note the space after Z. It's important if you want to keep the spaces.