Convert Quotes to Curly Smart Quotes

7 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: March 4, 2021   (RSS)

By JeffC - December 14, 2020

Hi

Is there a way to convert quotes to smart quotes? I have 1500+ products that that been uploaded from a csv file. I would like to change:

' to ‘
' to ’

" to “
" to ”

I tried a find and replace using PHP MyAdmin but it didn't recognise the difference between the characters.

Could this be done using Developer Console?

Thanks

Jeff

By gkornbluth - December 14, 2020

Hey Jeff,

I did a google search for your question  IE: Convert Quotes to Curly Smart Quotes php, and came up with lots of suggestions using simple preg_replace commands.

You might want to give that a try and see what you come up with, or look at this one: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1387562-php-convert-straight-quotes-to-smart-quotes/

Good luck,

Jerry Kornbluth

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By JeffC - December 14, 2020

Thanks for taking the time to comment Jerry.

I found that too. I wondered though, would it be better performance-wise to convert them in the backend cms once, rather than leaving it to php each time a website is loaded.

Thanks

Jeff

By gkornbluth - December 14, 2020

I suppose that technically, the answer is yes, but I'm not sure that it will make a difference in  the real world.

Maybe someone has a suggestion for the back end approach

Jerry Kornbluth

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By Jenna - February 1, 2021

Hi Jeff,

Are you still looking for us to chime in on this one? I notice it's from December 2020.

Please let us know if you're still looking for assistance.

Jenna Cooke - PHP Programmer
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By Jenna - March 4, 2021

Hi Jeff,

You should be able to do this with a simple plugin. You would need to utilize the viewer action "viewer_output_rows" seen below in the first line. 

addAction('viewer_output_rows', 'pluginName_convertToSmartQuotes', null, 1);
function pluginName_convertToSmartQuotes($rows, $listDetails, $schema) {
  $fieldsToConvert = array('content', 'title', 'field_1', 'field_2'); // List your fields that you want to convert in this array
  //Check against $schema if the column exists
  $columnsExist = function_to_check_if_keys_exist($fieldsToConvert, $schema);
  if (!$columnsExist ) { return $rows; } // Just return rows if nothing exists
  foreach (array_keys($rows) as $index) {
    $row = &$rows[$index];
    foreach ($columnsExist as $field) {
      if ( isset($row[$field]) && $row[$field] != '' )  { 
        $row[$field] = preg_replace(array('/\b"/','/"/',"/'/"), array('”','“',"’"), $row[$field]); 
      }
    }
    
    unset($row);
  }
  return $rows;
}

I did use some pseudo code to indicate what functionality you'd be looking to create [ function_to_check_if_keys_exist() ]  so you can get the idea of what would need to be done. This pseudo function would need to be written to return an empty array if no columns/keys match or the columns that match.

If you're looking for us to write a quick plugin to help you accomplish this, send us an email at support@interactivetools.com and we would be happy to help you further and it shouldn't take much time at all. 

Let me know if that helps or if you have further questions!

Jenna Cooke - PHP Programmer
interactivetools.com