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DaveChild on 10/15/08


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PHP Generate URL From Text

Published in: PHP 

URL: http://www.addedbytes.com

Function replaces all non-alpha-numeric chars and cleans up a text string. Should output a usable URL for almost all text.

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  1. function generate_url_from_text($strText) {
  2.     $strText = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9-]/', ' ', $strText);
  3.     $strText = preg_replace('/ +/', ' ', $strText);
  4.     $strText = trim($strText);
  5.     $strText = str_replace(' ', '-', $strText);
  6.     $strText = preg_replace('/-+/', '-', $strText);
  7.     $strText = strtolower($strText);
  8.     return $strText;
  9. }

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