Question

hey guys im really frustrated

im looking for a way to retrieve back my slug to the normal text as wordpress does

in wordpress there is a function to do so :

apply_filters(‘editable_slug’, $slug)

i search all related files to find what this function does, but couldn’t understand a bit.

as ypu may know , making a slug out of a normal text is a easy job , but when its converted , for Utf-8 languages such as Arabic , words will be changed to unreadable unicodes .

e.g. :

http://localhost/page/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%84%d9%87

do you know how this function works in wordpress ?

apply_filters(‘editable_slug’, $slug)

and how i can do the same in my own php project ?

Answer 1

Call rawurldecode on the percent-encoded form — this will give you the text in UTF-8 encoding. If your webpage encoding is UTF-8, you just have to call htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_NOQUOTES, ‘UTF-8’).

Example:

$str = rawurldecode('%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%84%d9%87');
echo htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8');