Question

I’ve built a custom CMS that does the usual things: post management, content management, contact management, etc.

In the post management section, I would like to extract the “Title” field and convert this into a URL-ready form.

Example: New post is created titled “3 Ways to Win in Real Estate & in Life”. I want this to run through a PHP script that turns it into “3_ways_to_win_in_real_estate_&_in_life”.

Anyone have a script for this, or would url_encode() do all of this for me?

Answer 1

Make use of currently developed code that you can use within your own projects.

Kohana 3 framework has solution for you. Below you can find solution on the basis of URL::title() method from Kohana 3 framework:

function title($title, $separator = '-') {
    // Remove all characters that are not the separator, letters, numbers, or whitespace
    $title = preg_replace('![^' . preg_quote($separator) . '\pL\pN\s]+!u', '', strtolower($title));

    // Replace all separator characters and whitespace by a single separator
    $title = preg_replace('![' . preg_quote($separator) . '\s]+!u', $separator, $title);

    // Trim separators from the beginning and end
    return trim($title, $separator);
}