function replaceNbspWithSpace($content){ $string = htmlentities($content, null, 'utf-8'); if (strpos($string, ' ') !== false) { $content = str_replace(" ", " ", $string); $content = html_entity_decode($content); }elseif(strpos($content, ' ') !== false ) { $content = str_replace(" ", " ", $content); $content = html_entity_decode($content); } return $content; }
Anschließend kann man durch trim, ltrim oder rtrim die Leerzeichen entfernen.