note 54517 added to function.preg-replace

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 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+54517 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54517&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54517&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54517&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54517&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54517&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54517&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+54517&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php