How to Remove Special Character From String in PHP

Hi Guys,

In this example,I will leran you how to remove special character from string in php.

you will simply and easy to use preg_replace() and str_replace() in php.

Sometimes we need to get result of an input string as a simple composition of alphabets and numbers and we want to remove all special characters by using preg_replace.

you will check to remove special character from string in php.bellow example

Example 1 : Using preg_replace

<?php

function RemoveSpecialCharacters($string){

    $result  = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9_ -]/s','', $string);

    return $result;
}

echo RemoveSpecialCharacters("This - text ! has \\ /allot # of % special % characters");
?>

output :

This - text has allot of special characters

Example 2 : Using str_replace

<?php

function RemoveSpecialCharacters($string){

    $result = str_replace( array( '\'', '"', ',' , ';', '<', '>', '!' ), ' ', $string);
     
    return $result;
}

echo RemoveSpecialCharacters("This - text ! has \\ /allot # of % special % characters");
?>

output :

This - text has allot of special characters

It will help you.....