iconv function Knowledge summarization _php techniques in PHP

Today, when I was revising my thesis online, I encountered the Iconv function. Learn a bit

Header (' Content-type:application/vnd.ms-excel;charset=utf-8 ');
$name =iconv (' utf-8 ', ' gb2312 ', $data [' Year ']. Year, $data [' period ']. ' Period communication record ");
Header (' Content-disposition:attachment;filename= '. $name. '. xls ');
Header (' cache-control:max-age=0 ');

The meaning of this code is to convert the Utf-8 format into a gb2312 format and assign it to $name so that the name of the Excel file is exported, which is the name of the $name in Chinese.
Below is a detailed and extended usage of this function

Iconv ("UTF-8", "Gb2312//ignore", $data)

Ignore means ignoring the conversion error, and if there is no ignore argument, all the strings after that character cannot be saved.

This function, Iconv (), is built into the PHP5. Thank you.

Example:

 <?php
 echo $str = ' Hello, here is selling coffee! '
 echo ' <br/> ';
 echo iconv (' GB2312 ', ' UTF-8 ', $str);   Transfer the string encoding from GB2312 to UTF-8
 echo ' <br/> ';
 
 Echo Iconv_substr ($STR, 1, 1, ' UTF-8 ');  Intercept by number of characters rather than byte     
 Print_r (Iconv_get_encoding ());      Get the current page encoding information

 echo iconv_strlen ($str, ' UTF-8 ');     Gets the set encoded string length

//There are also such used

 $content = Iconv ("UTF-8", "Gbk//translit", $content); 

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Iconv is not the default function of PHP and is the default installed module. Requires installation to be used.

If it is windows2000+php, you can modify the php.ini file to Extension=php_iconv.dll before the ";" Remove and at the same time you want to copy your original PHP installation file under the Iconv.dll to your winnt/system32 (if your DLL is pointing to this directory)

In the Linux environment, the static installation of the way, in the configure when adding more than one--with-iconv can be, phpinfo see iconv items. (linux7.3+apache4.06+php4.3.2),

Download: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.8.tar.gz
Installation:

#cp libiconv-1.8.tar.gz/usr/local/src
#tar zxvf lib*
#./configure--prefix=/usr/local/libiconv
#make
#make Install

Compiling PHP

#./configure--prefix=/usr/local/php4.3.2--with-iconv=/usr/local/libiconv/

Simple examples to use:

<?php 
 Echo iconv ("gb2312", "iso-8859-1", "we"); 
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Introduction to Mb_convert_encoding and ICONV functions in PHP

Mb_convert_encoding This function is used to convert the encoding. The concept of coding the program has been not understood, but now seems to be a bit enlightened.
But English does not usually have coding problems, only Chinese data will have this problem. For example, when you use Zend Studio or EditPlus to write the program, using the GBK code, if the data needs to enter the database, and the database code for UTF8, then the data will be encoded conversion, or into the database would become garbled.

Mb_convert_encoding's usage See official:
http://cn.php.net/manual/zh/function.mb-convert-encoding.php

Make a GBK to UTF-8

< PHP 
 header ("content-type:text/html; Charset=utf-8 "); 
 Echo mb_convert_encoding ("You Are my Friend", "UTF-8", "GBK"); 
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And a GB2312 to Big5.

< PHP 
 header ("content-type:text/html; Charset=big5 "); 
 Echo mb_convert_encoding ("You Are my Friend", "Big5", "GB2312"); 
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However, you need to use the above function to install but you need to enable the Mbstring extension library first.

Another function in PHP, Iconv, is also used to convert string encodings, similar to the functions on functions.

Here are a few more examples:

Iconv-convert string to requested character encoding
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PHP 5)
Mb_convert_encoding-convert Character Encoding
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)

Usage:

String mb_convert_encoding (String str, string to_encoding [, mixed from_encoding])
Need to enable Mbstring expansion Library, in the php.ini; Extension=php_mbstring.dll in front of; Remove
Mb_convert_encoding can specify a variety of input encodings, which are automatically recognized based on content, but perform much less efficiently than iconv;

String Iconv (String in_charset, String out_charset, String str)
Note: The second parameter, in addition to specifying the encoding to be converted, can add two suffixes://translit and//ignore, where//translit automatically converts characters that cannot be directly converted into one or more approximate characters,//ignore Ignores characters that cannot be converted, and the default effect is to truncate from the first illegal character.
Returns the converted string or FALSE on failure.

Use:

Iconv found that there was an error in converting the character "-" to gb2312, and if there were no ignore arguments, all the strings after that character could not be saved. In any case, this "-" cannot be converted successfully and cannot be exported. In addition Mb_convert_encoding does not have this bug.

In general, the Mb_convert_encoding function is used only when the ICONV is encountered that cannot determine what encoding the original encoding is, or if the iconv is not displayed properly after conversion.

From_encoding is specified by character code name before conversion. It can be an array or STRING-COMMA separated enumerated list. If It is not specified, the internal encoding would be used.
/* Auto detect encoding from JIS, Eucjp-win, Sjis-win, then convert str to UCS-2LE * *
$str = mb_convert_encoding ($str, "Ucs-2le", "JIS, Eucjp-win, Sjis-win");
/* "Auto" is expanded to "ascii,jis,utf-8,euc-jp,sjis" * *
$str = mb_convert_encoding ($str, "EUC-JP", "Auto");

Example:

 $content = Iconv ("GBK", "Utf-8″, $content"); 
 $content = mb_convert_encoding ($content, "Utf-8″", "GBK"); 

Parameters that are easy to ignore when using the Iconv function in PHP

Today, when processing crawl content, when using Iconv for encoding conversion, found that the result will be interrupted, guess is the character set problem, consider how to skip the target character set does not exist characters, check the manual found that iconv function only three parameters, as if not, and then check on the Internet that some people say can, But very strange how to achieve, finally found that English description can be added to the target code behind: "Translit", very depressed how to add it? The original is to add "//", really depressed, unexpectedly have such a design
Prototype: $txtContent = Iconv ("Utf-8", ' GBK ', $txtContent);

Special parameters: Iconv ("UTF-8", "Gb2312//ignore", $data)

Two optional auxiliary parameters: Translit and ignore, where ignore is skipped when it is encountered that cannot be converted.

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