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evanwalsh on 02/11/08


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Make string into post slug

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  1. <?php
  2.  
  3. function str2url($title,$sep = "-"){
  4. 	$exclude = array("!","@","#","$","%","^","&","*","(",")","=","{","}","[","]","|","\\","/","?","<",">","~","`","_","+","=","-");
  5. 	$pieces = explode(' ',str_replace($exclude,"",strtolower($title)));
  6. 	$output = NULL;
  7. 	foreach($pieces as $key => $val){
  8. 		if($pieces[$key+1] == NULL){
  9. 			$sep = NULL;
  10. 		}
  11. 		$output .= $val.$sep;
  12. 	}
  13. 	return $output;
  14. }
  15.  
  16. echo str2url("Evan Walsh Rocks"); // returns evan-walsh-rocks
  17.  
  18. ?>

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Posted By: tamriel on February 12, 2008

Why are you not just using PHP's "urlencode" function (php.net/rawurlencode or php.net/urlencode) ? I don't get the point of this snippet ...

Posted By: evanwalsh on February 13, 2008

This is to convert a string to be used as something like a permalink/post slug. Blog software (like Wordpress) does this. I just made this as a simple function one could use in one's own software.

Posted By: mohangk on September 8, 2008

This function is fine as long as you are handling cases where the slug returned is not unique separately

In the above case , $a and $b will be the same, yes ?

Posted By: mohangk on September 8, 2008

Sorry - what I was tring to say is for the string "Evan Walsh Rocks!" and "Evan Walsh Rocks?" you would get the same result.

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