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Trying to make a url generator from a title - doomie22 - 12-21-2017
Hi there,
I have been trying to make a generator that will take a title and strip out all the special characters like !"£$ etc...
I have used strtolower and str_replace in a chain with each character but it is inconsistent and will not strip everything like ~.
Is there anything out there that can help with something like this, I have had a bit of a search but nothing had turned up yet.
Thanks,
Doomie
RE: Trying to make a url generator from a title - ragingTorch - 12-21-2017
Try using the url_title from the url helper: https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html#url_title
RE: Trying to make a url generator from a title - nickimnick - 12-22-2017
Hi,
I don't know which version Codeigniter you are using but if you're using 3.x, you can try URL helper function: url_title. You can reach the references with the link below.
https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html#url_title
Hope this helps
RE: Trying to make a url generator from a title - XtreemDeveloper - 12-23-2017
First of all we need to strip all special characters and punctuation away.
This is easily accomplished with something like:
function toAscii($str) {
$clean = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9/_|+ -]/", '', $str);
$clean = strtolower(trim($clean, '-'));
$clean = preg_replace("/[/_|+ -]+/", '-', $clean);
return $clean;
}
Second option
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF8');
function toAscii($str) {
$clean = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $str);
$clean = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9/_| -]/", '', $clean);
$clean = strtolower(trim($clean, '-'));
$clean = preg_replace("/[/_| -]+/", '-', $clean);
return $clean;
}