If you need a good function to clean strings to use them as URLs for SEO purposes, here’s a suggestion:<\/p>\n
function chunk_special_chars($string)\u00a0{\n $normalizeChars = array(\n '\u0160'=>'S', '\u0161'=>'s', '\u00d0'=>'Dj','\u017d'=>'Z', '\u017e'=>'z', '\u00c0'=>'A', '\u00c1'=>'A', '\u00c2'=>'A', '\u00c3'=>'A', '\u00c4'=>'A',\n '\u00c5'=>'A', '\u00c6'=>'A', '\u00c7'=>'C', '\u00c8'=>'E', '\u00c9'=>'E', '\u00ca'=>'E', '\u00cb'=>'E', '\u00cc'=>'I', '\u00cd'=>'I', '\u00ce'=>'I',\n '\u00cf'=>'I', '\u00d1'=>'N', '\u00d2'=>'O', '\u00d3'=>'O', '\u00d4'=>'O', '\u00d5'=>'O', '\u00d6'=>'O', '\u00d8'=>'O', '\u00d9'=>'U', '\u00da'=>'U',\n '\u00db'=>'U', '\u00dc'=>'U', '\u00dd'=>'Y', '\u00de'=>'B', '\u00df'=>'Ss','\u00e0'=>'a', '\u00e1'=>'a', '\u00e2'=>'a', '\u00e3'=>'a', '\u00e4'=>'a',\n '\u00e5'=>'a', '\u00e6'=>'a', '\u00e7'=>'c', '\u00e8'=>'e', '\u00e9'=>'e', '\u00ea'=>'e', '\u00eb'=>'e', '\u00ec'=>'i', '\u00ed'=>'i', '\u00ee'=>'i',\n '\u00ef'=>'i', '\u00f0'=>'o', '\u00f1'=>'n', '\u00f2'=>'o', '\u00f3'=>'o', '\u00f4'=>'o', '\u00f5'=>'o', '\u00f6'=>'o', '\u00f8'=>'o', '\u00f9'=>'u',\n '\u00fa'=>'u', '\u00fb'=>'u', '\u00fd'=>'y', '\u00fd'=>'y', '\u00fe'=>'b', '\u00ff'=>'y', '\u0192'=>'f'\n );\n $string = strtr($string, $normalizeChars);\n $string = str_replace('&', '-and-', $string);\n $string = trim(preg_replace('\/[^wd_ -]\/si', '', $string));\/\/remove all illegal chars\n $string = str_replace(' ', '-', $string);\n $clean = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII\/\/TRANSLIT', $string);\n $clean = preg_replace(\"\/[^a-zA-Z0-9\/_| -]\/\", '_', $clean);\n $clean = strtolower(trim($clean, '-'));\n $clean = preg_replace(\"\/[\/_| -]+\/\", '_', $clean);\n\n return $clean;\n} \/\/function<\/pre>\nthanks to: sales at mk2solutions dot com for posting their solution @http:\/\/us2.php.net\/strtr notes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you need a good function to clean strings to use them as URLs for SEO purposes, here’s a suggestion: function chunk_special_chars($string)\u00a0{ $normalizeChars = array( ‘\u0160’=>’S’, ‘\u0161’=>’s’, ‘\u00d0’=>’Dj’,’\u017d’=>’Z’, ‘\u017e’=>’z’, ‘\u00c0’=>’A’, ‘\u00c1’=>’A’, ‘\u00c2’=>’A’, ‘\u00c3’=>’A’, ‘\u00c4’=>’A’, ‘\u00c5’=>’A’, ‘\u00c6’=>’A’, ‘\u00c7’=>’C’, ‘\u00c8’=>’E’, ‘\u00c9’=>’E’, ‘\u00ca’=>’E’, ‘\u00cb’=>’E’, ‘\u00cc’=>’I’, ‘\u00cd’=>’I’, ‘\u00ce’=>’I’, ‘\u00cf’=>’I’, ‘\u00d1’=>’N’, ‘\u00d2’=>’O’, ‘\u00d3’=>’O’, ‘\u00d4’=>’O’, ‘\u00d5’=>’O’,… Continue reading