PHP convert Latin intro Greek characters - php

Question

Is it possible to convert Latin char into Greek?
example:
$string = 'OMEGA';
result:
$string = 'ΩΜΕΓΑ';

Answer 1

If you were able to set the transliterations yourself then you could just use str_replace. Here is an example:
$english = array('A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J');
$greek = array('a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j');
echo str_replace($english, $greek, "HELLO");
So, in my example A is replaced with a, B with b, C with c and so on. Any letter after J in the alphabet will remain unchanged. You could adjust this so O becomes Ω and so on ...

Answer 2

Try this one, because only str_replace will not work with non utf-8 chars.
if (!function_exists('mb_str_replace')) {
function mb_str_replace($search, $replace, $subject, &$count = 0)
{
if (!is_array($subject)) {
$searches = is_array($search) ? array_values($search) : [$search];
$replacements = is_array($replace) ? array_values($replace) : [$replace];
$replacements = array_pad($replacements, count($searches), '');
foreach ($searches as $key => $search) {
$parts = mb_split(preg_quote($search), $subject);
$count += count($parts) - 1;
$subject = implode($replacements[$key], $parts);
}
} else {
foreach ($subject as $key => $value) {
$subject[$key] = mb_str_replace($search, $replace, $value, $count);
}
}
return $subject;
}
}