Question

I have seen this being done on the wordpress and i dont have access to word press 🙂

but i need to return a url string removing any non valid characters from it and converting some characters into appropriate characters 🙂

e.g.

1+ characters should be converted (of the following)

[space]        = [dash] (1 dash) >>> (-)
[underscore]   = [dash] (1 dash) >>> (-)
$str = 'Hello WORLD this is a bad string';
$str = convert_str_to_url($str);
//output//NOTE: caps have are lowercase :)
//hello-world-bad-string

and remove common and senseless words such as “the”,”a”,”in” etccc

at least point me on the right direction if u dnt have a gd code 🙂

Answer 1

What you want is the “slugged” string. Here’s a list of relevant links:

• best way to escape and create a slug
• Convert any title to url slug and back from url slug to title
• how to generate slugs in php
• http://snipplr.com/view/2809/convert-string-to-slug/

Just google PHP slug for more examples.