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Slugify in Code Igniter - imabot - 11-02-2018
Slugifying a string is a real pain in the a** with CodeIgniter (accented characters, apostrophes ... there is always something wrong in the slug)
Why not adding the following function once and for all in url_helper.php ?
PHP Code:
// Slugify a string
function slugify($text)
{
// Strip html tags
$text=strip_tags($text);
// Replace non letter or digits by -
$text = preg_replace('~[^\pL\d]+~u', '-', $text);
// Transliterate
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.utf8');
$text = iconv('utf-8', 'us-ascii//TRANSLIT', $text);
// Remove unwanted characters
$text = preg_replace('~[^-\w]+~', '', $text);
// Trim
$text = trim($text, '-');
// Remove duplicate -
$text = preg_replace('~-+~', '-', $text);
// Lowercase
$text = strtolower($text);
// Check if it is empty
if (empty($text)) { return 'n-a'; }
// Return result
return $text;
}
I'm convinced this will help many many many developers around the world.
RE: Slugify in Code Igniter - jreklund - 11-02-2018
I'm afraid there are several reason that I think it won't be implemented. Here's a few.
1. You are removing non letters and digits twice.
~[^\pL\d]+~u and [^-\w]+
- This one will remove also "Help"-button, so it becomes Helpbutton, that's not what I wanted. But help-button
2. Setlocale will affect the rest of the code too. And other people on the same process.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php
3. Forcing a convert with US standard. Every server should have that charset installed. But no grantee.
4. Forcing a value upon a user.
5. No options, you can't change the separator or leave it out.
You can use this one if you want. It uses PHP internal Transliterator Class.
https://github.com/ausi/slug-generator
http://php.net/manual/pl/class.transliterator.php