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In this article, you will learn how to remove special characters from a string in PHP.
Let’s say you have a string variable named ‘a’.
// A string variable named 'a' with value "This string, contains special characters such as <;>"
$a = "This string, contains special characters such as <;>";
Remove Special Characters From String
In order to remove special characters from a string, you can use the str_replace() method.
// A string variable named 'a' with value "This string, contains special characters such as <;>"
$a = "This string, contains special characters such as <;>";
// Replace any special characters in string to whitespace
$result = str_replace(array( '"', ',' , ';', '<', '>' ), ' ', $a);
echo "Result: ".$result;
// Result: This string contains special characters such as
Note: The str_replace() method functions by removing all special characters from the supplied string by replacing them with whitespaces.
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