Converting Accented Characters to Non-Accented Equivalents in PHP

For some reason or other, you may want to have a string of accented characters converted to its equivalent, such as "hëllo" to "hello".

Doing this in PHP is easy. You will have some input like this...

$input = "hëllo";

Then you can convert and see the output like this...

$output = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $input);
print($output);

Output here is "hello", and our problem is solved very easily!

Of course, for the most part, you should not need to do this. Accepting the entirety of UTF-8's range in diversity and color is usually a good thing for any code solution.