Change php variable, replace white spaces with dashed

Question

How can I convert a PHP variable from "My company and my name" to "my-company-my-name"?

I need to do everything lowercase, remove all special characters and replace the dashes with spaces.

Answer 1

This function will create an SEO friendly string.

function seoUrl($string) { //Lower case everything $string = strtolower($string); //Make alphanumeric (removes all other characters) $string = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9_\s-]/", "", $string); //Clean up multiple dashes or whitespaces $string = preg_replace("/[\s-]+/", " ", $string); //Convert whitespaces and underscore to dash $string = preg_replace("/[\s_]/", "-", $string); return $string; } 

should be good :)

Answer 2

Replacing specific characters: http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

Example:

 function replaceAll($text) { $text = strtolower(htmlentities($text)); $text = str_replace(get_html_translation_table(), "-", $text); $text = str_replace(" ", "-", $text); $text = preg_replace("/[-]+/i", "-", $text); return $text; } 

Answer 3

Yop, and if you want to handle any special characters, you need to declare them in the template, otherwise they can be reset. You can do it like this:

 strtolower(preg_replace('/-+/', '-', preg_replace('/[^\wáéíóú]/', '-', $string)));