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tylerhall on 06/06/07


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Convert String to Slug

Published in: PHP 

This filters a string into a "friendly" string for use in URL's. It converts the string to lower case and replaces any non-alphanumeric (and accented) characters with dashes.

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  1. function slug($str)
  2. {
  3. 	$str = strtolower(trim($str));
  4. 	$str = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-]/', '-', $str);
  5. 	$str = preg_replace('/-+/', "-", $str);
  6. 	return $str;
  7. }

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