Ignore accent in the input type=text

browser

Hello:

How cai i ignore the accents in the ??

Example: If i have in a column Hell

Christian Bonato

What you can do with php (but feasible with Javascript, I guess, not to mention other programming languages) :

Make a copy of your original strings and use a str_replace or strtr function to replace all accents with what you need.

i.e. :

[code]
$stringcopy = strtr($originalstring, "()!$'?: ,&+-/.ŠŒŽšœžŸ¥µÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ",
"--------------SOZsozYYuAAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiionoooooouuuuyy");
[/code]

Then put the strings without accents in a column, make it searchable, and make it hidden.

Make the column that displays the original string not searchable.


Christian

browser

Ok, thanks you. And if the user introduce a word with accent, how can i delete de accent ? Because if the user introduce for example Hello

allan

One thing you could do, is to detach the 'keypress' event which DataTables attaches to the 'input' element, and then add your own. Your event handler would then do something like Christian's PHP function (just in Javascript) and apply that to fnFilter ( http://datatables.net/api#fnFilter ). Then the user still has what they typed in, but you are filtering on the 'roman' alphabet :-)

Regards,
Allan