Replacing accented characters php

Question

I am trying to replace accented characters with the normal replacements. Below is what I am currently doing.

    $string = \"Éric Cantona\";
    $strict = st         


        

Answer 1

Adding a little bit to what Lizard said, it worked to display correctly on web page, but added some other codes to complete what I was looking for replacing my tags to search correctly into my database with special characters. Thanks in advance.

$unwanted_array = array(    'Š'=>'S', 'š'=>'s', 'Ž'=>'Z', 'ž'=>'z', 'À'=>'A', 'Á'=>'A', 'Â'=>'A', 'Ã'=>'A', 'Ä'=>'A', 'Å'=>'A', 'Æ'=>'A', 'Ç'=>'C', 'È'=>'E', 'É'=>'E',
                            'Ê'=>'E', 'Ë'=>'E', 'Ì'=>'I', 'Í'=>'I', 'Î'=>'I', 'Ï'=>'I', 'Ñ'=>'N', 'Ò'=>'O', 'Ó'=>'O', 'Ô'=>'O', 'Õ'=>'O', 'Ö'=>'O', 'Ø'=>'O', 'Ù'=>'U',
                            'Ú'=>'U', 'Û'=>'U', 'Ü'=>'U', 'Ý'=>'Y', 'Þ'=>'B', 'ß'=>'Ss', 'à'=>'a', 'á'=>'a', 'â'=>'a', 'ã'=>'a', 'ä'=>'a', 'å'=>'a', 'æ'=>'a', 'ç'=>'c',
                            'è'=>'e', 'é'=>'e', 'ê'=>'e', 'ë'=>'e', 'ì'=>'i', 'í'=>'i', 'î'=>'i', 'ï'=>'i', 'ð'=>'o', 'ñ'=>'n', 'ò'=>'o', 'ó'=>'o', 'ô'=>'o', 'õ'=>'o',
                            'ö'=>'o', 'ø'=>'o', 'ù'=>'u', 'ú'=>'u', 'û'=>'u', 'ý'=>'y', 'þ'=>'b', 'ÿ'=>'y', 
                            'á'=>'a', 'é'=>'e', 'í'=>'i', 'ó'=>'o', 'ú'=>'u',  
                            'Á'=>'A', 'É'=>'E', 'Í'=>'I', 'Ó'=>'O', 'Ú'=>'U',
                            'Ñ'=>'N', 'ñ'=>'n' );
$newtag = strtr( $newtag, $unwanted_array );