php filter special characters from string code example

Example 1: php strip out special characters

function clean($string) {
   $string = str_replace(' ', '-', $string); // Replaces all spaces with hyphens.

   return preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $string); // Removes special chars.
}

Example 2: Remove Special Character in PHP

phpCopy<?php
$mainstr = "This is a sim'ple text;";
echo "Text before remove: \n" . $mainstr, "\n";
$replacestr = remove_sp_chr($mainstr);
function remove_sp_chr($str)
{
    $result = str_replace(array("#", "'", ";"), '', $str);
    echo "\n\nText after remove: \n" . $result;
}
?>