Removing forward slashes / from a string in PHP

[giveasyouget]

hey there.. been playing with mod_rewrite to make my pages more search engine friendly but some of the categories my script serves up contain the '/' character, which stops the server being able to find the script.

I've tried

$string=str_replace("/","",$string);

but it doesn't seem to do anything. Anybody got any ideas?
thanks,
jonny

[giveasyouget]

oh yes, and i've the same problem in a perl script should anyone be able to suggest the fix for that..

[loquax]

Try

http://www.zend.com/manual/function.stripslashes.php

echo stripslashes($str);

Jason

[ianm]

stripslashes probably won't work - it removes the \ character not the /.

There's no reason why

PHP Code:

$string=str_replace("/","",$string); 


shouldn't work.

[ianm]

Just though why it might not work - the / probably needs to be escaped, so try -

PHP Code:

$string=str_replace("\\/","",$string); 


and the same possibly goes for Perl - I think its something to do with regular expressions.

[giveasyouget]

hmm yeah that's what i thought. I fixed the prob in perl - I had to use \/ not / but it doesn't seem to work in php for some reason..


....ug sorry im being a right muppet, doing the str_replace in a different bit of code to the one displaying the link! tsk tsk.. well thanku everyone all the same!

[Rich]

One thing for the future, try using single quotes (') rather than double ('') as php doesn't check for escape chars etc in single quoted strings. It also doesn't check for inserted variables, so single quoted strings are quicker if you don't need then.

e.g.

<?
$val='hello';
echo "$val world\n";
echo '$val world\n';
?>

Would print: -

Hello World
$val world\n

(\n is a new-line character)