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PHP utf8_en/decode deprecated, what can i use? – PHP Versions

90% of my website pages use the utf8 encoding feature for compile an DataTable.

$a[] = array_map('utf8_encode', $item);

With the old version 8.0 of php everything was fine, in the new version it gives me an error when a value of $item ($item is an array) is null.

What is a valid alternative?

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    I just do this before array_map('utf8_encode', $item):

    foreach(array_keys($item) as $key)
    $item[$key] = utf8_encode($item[$key] ?? '');

    and it works good.


  2. 0

    Use mb_convert_encoding to convert from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

    Example:

    $iso = "x5Ax6FxEB";
echo mb_convert_encoding($iso, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1'); // Zoë
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  3. 0

    We know that utf8_encode is deprecated since PHP 8.2.0 and will be removed in PHP 9 https://php.watch/versions/8.2/utf8_encode-utf8_decode-deprecated

    So the alternative can be:

    $oldSample = ["x5Ax6FxEB"];
$result= array_map
(
    function ($item){
        return mb_convert_encoding($item, "UTF-8", mb_detect_encoding($item));
    }, 
    $oldSample
);
var_dump($result);

    Documentation:

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