note 54517 deleted from function.preg-replace by tularis

Note Submitter: shazow at gmail dot com ---- Here's a function that will take in a string and make it URL-friendly. This is useful for basing dynamically created paths on given titles (eg. in my case, I label subdirectories based on the name of the category they represent). <? php function makeUrlFriendly($input) { // Replace spaces with underscores $output = preg_replace("/\s/e" , "_" , $input); // Remove non-word characters $output = preg_replace("/\W/e" , "" , $output); return $output; } // Example useage: echo makeUrlFriendly("I'm some really long title !!1"); // Gives: Im_some_really_long_title_1 echo makeUrlFriendly("Weird chars too: £©§ &amp;"); // Gives: Weird_chars_too__amp ?> - shazow