I want to have a function to create slugs from Unicode strings, e.g. gen_slug('Andrés Cortez')
should return andres-cortez
. How should I do that?
Instead of a lengthy replace, try this one:
public static function slugify($text)
{
// replace non letter or digits by -
$text = preg_replace('~[^\pL\d]+~u', '-', $text);
// transliterate
$text = iconv('utf-8', 'us-ascii//TRANSLIT', $text);
// remove unwanted characters
$text = preg_replace('~[^-\w]+~', '', $text);
// trim
$text = trim($text, '-');
// remove duplicate -
$text = preg_replace('~-+~', '-', $text);
// lowercase
$text = strtolower($text);
if (empty($text)) {
return 'n-a';
}
return $text;
}
This was based off the one in Symfony's Jobeet tutorial.