how to filter the all special characters in cakephp from an array
To filter all special characters from an array in CakePHP, you can use the array_map
function along with a callback function. The callback function should use regular expressions to remove any special characters from each array element.
Here's an example of how you can achieve this:
function filterSpecialCharacters($value) {
return preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $value);
}
$myArray = array('abc@123', 'def$456', 'ghi#789');
$filteredArray = array_map('filterSpecialCharacters', $myArray);
print_r($filteredArray);
In this example, the filterSpecialCharacters
function is defined to remove any characters that are not letters, numbers, or hyphens from each array element using the preg_replace
function.
The array_map
function is then used to apply this callback function to each element of the $myArray
. The resulting filtered array is stored in $filteredArray
.
Finally, the print_r
function is used to display the contents of the filtered array.
This code will output:
Array
(
[0] => abc123
[1] => def456
[2] => ghi789
)
As you can see, all the special characters have been removed from the original array elements.