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Automatic clean and SEO friendly URL (slugs)

I need a function which makes “clean URL strings” like WordPress.
For example:
“This is a string with frénch and gêrmän special chars + other mean stuff and I’d like to use it as an URL”
Shall be transformed into this:
“this-is-a-string-with-french-and-german-special-chars-other-mean-stuff-and-id-like-to-use-it-as-an-url”

Please help my laziness, it was a hard day already 🙂

Answer 1

I’ll help your laziness today by providing the hint to what you will need to work on tomorrow:

$final_string = str_replace(
    array(' ', 'ă', 'â', 'ä'),
    array('-', 'a', 'a', 'a'),
    $initial_string
);

There can be many variations of this, for example using RegEx (preg_replace) to match some groups of characters like multiple spaces/tabs/newlines (\s*) or multiple characters that are supposed to have the same replacement (ă|â|ä).

$final_string = preg_replace(
    array('/\s*/', '/ă|â|ä/'),
    array('-', 'a'),
    $initial_string
);