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A lightweight utility for string conversion between text from UTF8 to various formats and vice-versa. Supports HTML entities, MIME encoded words, accents removal, emoji conversion, and more.

Features

• Convert HTML entities to UTF8 and vice-versa
• Convert ASCII emoticons to emoji characters
• Handle combining characters
• Remove accents from UTF8 text
• Convert text to MIME encoded words (RFC 2047)
• Remove emoji characters
• Convert to ASCII-only text

Documentation

• Converting to UTF8 - Convert from HTML entities, emoticons, and combining characters
• Converting from UTF8 - Convert to HTML entities, remove accents and emoji, ASCII conversion
• Installation - How to install and set up the library
• Examples - Real-world usage examples and common patterns

Quick Start

<?php // Convert HTML entities to UTF8 $str = \ByJG\Convert\ToUTF8::fromHtmlEntities('Jo&atilde;o'); echo $str; // João // Convert UTF8 to HTML entities $str2 = \ByJG\Convert\FromUTF8::toHtmlEntities('João'); echo $str2; // Jo&atilde;o // Remove accents $str3 = \ByJG\Convert\FromUTF8::removeAccent('João'); echo $str3; // Joao // Convert to MIME encoded word (for email headers) $str4 = \ByJG\Convert\FromUTF8::toMimeEncodedWord('João'); echo $str4; // =?utf-8?Q?Jo=C3=A3o?= // Convert to ASCII only $str5 = \ByJG\Convert\FromUTF8::onlyAscii('João'); echo $str5; // Joao // Convert ASCII emoticons to emoji $str6 = \ByJG\Convert\ToUTF8::fromEmoji('Hello :) How are you? :D'); echo $str6; // Hello ???? How are you? ???? // Remove emoji characters $str7 = \ByJG\Convert\FromUTF8::removeEmoji('Hello ???? World ????'); echo $str7; // Hello World

For more examples and detailed documentation, see the Examples page.

Install

Just type:

composer require "byjg/convert"

Running Tests

vendor/bin/phpunit

Dependencies

flowchart TD byjg/convert 

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