Question

I want to reformat the_title(); the exact same way as WordPress does with the permalinks.

“Borislav Pekić” becomes “borislav-pekic”, “Alberto Méndez” becomes “alberto-mendez” and so on.

<?php
    $forfattare = the_title();
?>

I’ve tried to find the way WordPress does it, but i can’t find it. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I use this:

 <?php function createAlias($name)
 {
    setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF8');
    $name = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $name);
    $alias = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\/_|+ -]/", '', $name);
    $alias = strtolower(trim($alias, '-'));
    $alias = preg_replace("/[\/_|+ -]+/", "-", $alias);


    while (substr($alias, -1, 1) == "-") {
        $alias = substr($alias, 0, -1);
    }
    while (substr($alias, 0, 1) == "-") {
        $alias = substr($alias, 1, 100);
    }

    return $alias;
}