Question

Does the Yii framework contain a function that can make a string usable in a URL or filename ?

For example: Health+%26+Safety+franchises = health-safety-franchises

So something similar to: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#slugify

Answer 1

slugify in Django Converts to lowercase, removes non-word characters (alphanumerics and underscores) and converts spaces to hyphens. Also strips leading and trailing whitespace.
Following are the functions in PHP to carry out same tasks.

$slug = preg_replace('@[\s!:;_\?=\\\+\*/%&#]+@', '-', $str);
      //this will replace all non alphanumeric char with '-'
$slug = mb_strtolower($slug);
      //convert string to lowercase
$slug = trim($slug, '-');
      //trim whitespaces

You need to define a function in some controller TO use it in Yii