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BFTrick on 12/23/09


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clean Url

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Use this function to transform a title into a url friendly title

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  1. function cleanUrl( $url ){
  2.  
  3. 	$new_url = str_replace( " ", "-", $url );
  4. 	$new_url = str_replace( "/", "-", $new_url );
  5. 	$new_url = str_replace( "--", "-", $new_url );
  6. 	$new_url = str_split( $new_url );
  7. 	$new_url = preg_grep( "<[A-Za-z0-9-_]+>", $new_url );
  8. 	$new_url = trim( implode( $new_url ) );
  9. 	$new_url = strtolower($new_url);
  10.  
  11. 	// Was still getting cases of double hyphens
  12. 	$new_url = str_replace( "--", "-", $new_url );
  13.  
  14. 	return $new_url;
  15.  
  16. }// end function - cleanUrl

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