public function PhpTransliteration::transliterate in Zircon Profile 8
Same name and namespace in other branches
- 8.0 core/lib/Drupal/Component/Transliteration/PhpTransliteration.php \Drupal\Component\Transliteration\PhpTransliteration::transliterate()
Transliterates text from Unicode to US-ASCII.
Parameters
string $string: The string to transliterate.
string $langcode: (optional) The language code of the language the string is in. Defaults to 'en' if not provided. Warning: this can be unfiltered user input.
string $unknown_character: (optional) The character to substitute for characters in $string without transliterated equivalents. Defaults to '?'.
int $max_length: (optional) If provided, return at most this many characters, ensuring that the transliteration does not split in the middle of an input character's transliteration.
Return value
string $string with non-US-ASCII characters transliterated to US-ASCII characters, and unknown characters replaced with $unknown_character.
Overrides TransliterationInterface::transliterate
File
- core/lib/ Drupal/ Component/ Transliteration/ PhpTransliteration.php, line 112 
- Contains \Drupal\Component\Transliteration\PhpTransliteration.
Class
- PhpTransliteration
- Implements transliteration without using the PECL extensions.
Namespace
Drupal\Component\TransliterationCode
public function transliterate($string, $langcode = 'en', $unknown_character = '?', $max_length = NULL) {
  $result = '';
  $length = 0;
  // Split into Unicode characters and transliterate each one.
  foreach (preg_split('//u', $string, 0, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY) as $character) {
    $code = self::ordUTF8($character);
    if ($code == -1) {
      $to_add = $unknown_character;
    }
    else {
      $to_add = $this
        ->replace($code, $langcode, $unknown_character);
    }
    // Check if this exceeds the maximum allowed length.
    if (isset($max_length)) {
      $length += strlen($to_add);
      if ($length > $max_length) {
        // There is no more space.
        return $result;
      }
    }
    $result .= $to_add;
  }
  return $result;
}