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ibomb on 04/18/08


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String to valid url generator

Published in: PHP 

URL: http://www.dluxagency.com

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  1. $string = "1@-This is a Random string£";
  2.  
  3. //not allowed chars
  4. $pattern = '/[^\w\s]+/';
  5. $replacement = '';
  6. $url = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);
  7.  
  8. //change the space with -	
  9. $not_allowed = array(" "); 
  10. $url = strtolower(str_replace($not_allowed, "-", $url));
  11.  
  12. // result
  13. $url = "1-this-is-a-random-string"

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