PHP Class CI_Utf8, TastyIgniter

Provides support for UTF-8 environments

Author: EllisLab Dev Team

Public Methods

Method	Description
__construct ( ) : void	Class constructor
clean_string ( string $str ) : string	Clean UTF-8 strings
convert_to_utf8 ( string $str, string $encoding ) : string	Convert to UTF-8
is_ascii ( string $str ) : boolean	Is ASCII?
safe_ascii_for_xml ( string $str ) : string	Remove ASCII control characters

Determines if UTF-8 support is to be enabled.

public __construct ( ) : void
return	void

Ensures strings contain only valid UTF-8 characters.

public clean_string ( string $str ) : string
$str	string	String to clean
return	string

Attempts to convert a string to UTF-8.

public convert_to_utf8 ( string $str, string $encoding ) : string
$str	string	Input string
$encoding	string	Input encoding
return	string	$str encoded in UTF-8 or FALSE on failure

Tests if a string is standard 7-bit ASCII or not.

public is_ascii ( string $str ) : boolean
$str	string	String to check
return	boolean

Removes all ASCII control characters except horizontal tabs, line feeds, and carriage returns, as all others can cause problems in XML.

public safe_ascii_for_xml ( string $str ) : string
$str	string	String to clean
return	string