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  dave 2:21 pm on March 24, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: php (5), slug (3), string   

  One more way to slugify texts in php, without the need of the iconv() function:

      public static function slugify($text) {
  		$text = trim($text);
  		$text = str_replace(".", "", $text);
  		$text = self::removeAccents($text);
  		// replace non letter or digits by -
  		$text = preg_replace('~[^\\pL\d]+~u', '-', $text);
  		// trim
  		$text = trim($text, '-');
  		// lowercase
  		$text = strtolower($text);
  		// remove unwanted characters
  		$text = preg_replace('~[^-\w]+~', '', $text);
  		return $text;
  
  	}
  
  	public static function removeAccents($text) {
  		$text = htmlentities(utf8_decode($text));
  		$remove = array("&", "acute", "grave", "circ", "tilde", "uml");
  		$text = str_replace($remove, "", $text);
  		return $text;
  	}
  

  Put it inside an Utils class, and use it like

  $slug = Utils::slugify("nothingisclear is awesome");
  

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    reecoo 2:48 pm on March 24, 2010 Permalink

    yo…aka: test comment

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  reecoo 9:55 pm on March 23, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: php (5), slug (3), string   

  I really don’t remember if i’ve written this or took it from someone on the web (if you recognize it, please let me know, or just know that i didn’t want to steal it :) ).

  Anyway today i was into slugs and i surprisingly found a php simple-and-working static method for converting strings into slugs and i felt like sharing it:

  /**
   * PHP "iconv" REQUIRED !!!
   * @param object $string
   * @param object $space [optional]
   * @return
   */
  
  public static function convertStringIntoSlug($string,$space="-") {  
  
  	if (function_exists('iconv')) {
          $string = @iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $string);
      }  
  
      $string = strtolower(preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9 -]/","", $string));
      $string = str_replace(" ", $space, $string);
  
      return $string;
  
  }
  

  here i’ve already wrote about a good jquery alternative (written by Leo Caseiro) for doing this