Question

Hey, I’m just wondering if there’s any easy function to make text suitable to be in a link, say I have a bunch of caps, weird characters etc and I want it all to be lowercase with “-” instead of spaces, is there a function to do that or do I have to create my own?

Answer 1

Try this one, from snipplr:

function slug($str)
{
    $str = strtolower(trim($str));
    $str = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-]/', '-', $str);
    $str = preg_replace('/-+/', "-", $str);
    return $str;
}