编码转换php

这段代码是ThinkPHP框架中的，感觉很常用，所以单独拎出来，大家共同学习一下。
 
function auto_charset($fContents,$from='',$to='')
{
    if( strtoupper($from) === strtoupper($to) || empty($fContents) || (is_scalar($fContents) && !is_string($fContents)) ){
        //如果编码相同或者非字符串标量则不转换
        return $fContents;
    }
    $from   =  strtoupper($from)=='UTF8'? 'utf-8':$from;
    $to       =  strtoupper($to)=='UTF8'? 'utf-8':$to;
    if(is_string($fContents) ) {
                if(function_exists('mb_convert_encoding')){
            return mb_convert_encoding ($fContents, $to, $from);
        }elseif(function_exists('iconv')){
            return iconv($from,$to,$fContents);
        }else{
            exit('转换失败');
            return $fContents;
        }
    }
    elseif(is_array($fContents)){
        foreach ( $fContents as $key => $val ) {
                        $_key =         auto_charset($key,$from,$to);
            $fContents[$_key] = auto_charset($val,$from,$to);
                        if($key != $_key ) {
                                unset($fContents[$key]);
                        }
        }
        return $fContents;
    }
    elseif(is_object($fContents)) {
                $vars = get_object_vars($fContents);
        foreach($vars as $key=>$val) {
            $fContents->$key = auto_charset($val,$from,$to);
        }
        return $fContents;
    }
    else{
        return $fContents;
    }
}