Just a quick share! for slug users

[eluser]MikeHibbert[/eluser]
[quote author="dbashyal" date="1237862073"][quote author="MikeHibbert" date="1237831709"]Is there a point when this might become realtime critical?

As is it seems right that you made your own as we establish above, the built in function doesnt strip out invalid characters.

I hazard a guess that mine is faster than yours as I dont have any while loops in mine. Worth testing though if you have time

Mike[/quote]

Yes you are right. I have unnecessary loops, may be below would have been much faster than mine above.

Code:

/*
* Create and return clean url segment
*/
function link_clean($segment = false)
{
    //remove invalid characters with spaces, trim it and replace spaces with dashes
    return preg_replace('|\s\s+|','-',trim(preg_replace('|[^a-z0-9]+|i',' ',strtolower($segment))));
}

[/quote]

Hehe there comes a point in an algorithm when its function become meaningless to the human eye, and this humans eye just lost the plot reading that lol!

Joking a side, that looks to be a good one too

Mike