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vgd/sanitize\_string
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Sometimes you may want to clean a filename or string from foreign languages characters; with this class you can do both

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Sanitize String Class
=====================

[](#sanitize-string-class)

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Sometimes you may want to clean a filename or string from foreign languages characters; with this class you can do both.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
Install via composer:

composer require vgd/sanitize_string

or

require('SanitizeString.php');

The class uses two boolean parameters after the string/filename:

The first one (isFileName) is used to tell the class that you are trying to clean a file name.

The second one (special) must be used if you would like to remove special characters as well from a
string or a file name.

```

### In order to clean a string:

[](#in-order-to-clean-a-string)

```
To remove foreign characters only:

echo SanitizeString::clean('Your string here');

To remove foreign AND special characters:

echo SanitizeString::clean('Your string here', false, true);

```

### In order to clean a filename:

[](#in-order-to-clean-a-filename)

```
To remove foreign characters only:

SanitizeString::clean('Your filename here', true, false);

To remove foreign AND special characters:

SanitizeString::clean('Your filename here', true, true);

You can use absolute or relative paths for the file you want to rename.

```

### Final Note

[](#final-note)

```
The main purpose of using associative arrays and not other techniques as regular
expressions and preg_match etc. was to give the user the possibility of add or remove
characters depending of their needs.

Lets say that you have a spanish text and you want to remove all the characters but vowels
with tilde and ñ characters; you can modify the arrays to achieve that.

```

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity51

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2113d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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