Translate certain characters

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# strtr

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

strtr — Translate certain characters

### Description

string strtr ( string `$str` , string `$from` , string `$to` )
string strtr ( string `$str` , array `$replace_pairs` )

This function returns a copy of `str`, translating all occurrences of each character in `from` to the corresponding character in `to`.

If `from` and `to` are different lengths, the extra characters in the longer of the two are ignored.

### Parameters

`str`

  The string being translated.

`from`

  The string being translated to `to`.

`to`

  The string replacing `from`.

`replace_pairs`

  The `replace_pairs` parameter may be used as a substitute for `to` and `from` in which case it's an array in the form array('from' => 'to', ...).

### Return Values

Returns the translated string .

If `replace_pairs` contains a key which is an empty string (""), `FALSE` will be returned.

### Examples

Example #1 strtr() example

`<?php
$addr = strtr($addr, "äåö", "aao");
?>`

strtr() may be called with only two arguments. If called with two arguments it behaves in a new way: `from` then has to be an array that contains string -> string pairs that will be replaced in the source string. strtr() will always look for the longest possible match first and will *NOT* try to replace stuff that it has already worked on.

Example #2 strtr() example with two arguments

`<?php
$trans = array("hello" => "hi", "hi" => "hello");
echo strtr("hi all, I said hello", $trans);
?>`

The above example will output:

    hello all, I said hi

### See Also

- str_replace() - Replace all occurrences of the search string with the replacement string
- preg_replace() - Perform a regular expression search and replace

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