Convert Quotes to Curly Smart Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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!