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Posted By

shahways on 11/08/10


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String to slug

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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. 2 alternatives available.

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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 $str;
  7. }
  8.  
  9. function slugify($str, $replace="-")
  10. {
  11.     // replace all non letters or digits by $replace
  12.     $str = preg_replace('/\W+/', $replace, $str);
  13.  
  14.    // trim and lowercase
  15.    $str = strtolower(trim($str, $replace));
  16.  
  17.    return $str;
  18. }

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Posted By: liamchapman on November 8, 2010

looks similar to mine: http://snipplr.com/view/43418/slugify-function-clean-urls/ :)

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