escape special character from string in php

Question

we are trying to escape some special character from our string please tell me the function that we have to use e.g. HTC Desire 210 – White
In this example we escape -(hyphen) special character. In above example we have lot of product name with different different special character that we escape it. thanks for your co-operation.

Answer 1

Pass string in this function.

function clean($string){
   $string = str_replace(' ', '-', $string); // Replaces spaces with hyphens.
   return preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $string); // Removes special chars.
}

For more info, check this Remove Special Character - Stackoverflow