A PHP < 5.4 fallback for transliterator_transliterate()
composer require lukemadhanga/php-transliterator
PHP 5.4 has a built-in function, transliterator_transliterate() which does exactly what it says on the tin. This class works as a basic fallback for that function which is available from PHP5.4 with the intl package installed.
Basic Latin
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin Extended-A
Latin Extended-B
IPA Extensions Block
Spacing Modifier Letters
Combining Diacritical Marks
Greek and Coptic
Cyrillic
Cyrillic Supplement
Armenian
Georgian
Latin Extended Additional
Greek Extended
General Punctuation
Superscripts and Subscripts
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols
Georgian Supplement
Cyrillic Extended-A
Cyrillic Extended-B
Latin Extended-D
# If no composer:
include_once 'path/to/Transliterator.php';
echo \LukeMadhanga\Transliterator::convert('Antonín Dvořák'); // Antonin Dvorak