I'm busy with a website and for an element I use preg_replace to replace all the spaces with a dash.
preg_replace('/\\s/', '-', $item_replace_en[0])
And this works great but now i have a new problem. A user enterd the following "Music / Film". the output is "Music-/-Film" and i want it to be "Music-Film".
How can I accomplish this?
It looks like you're trying to generate a string that can be used as a URL.
There a numerous of scenarios that can happen when a user adds a title that you want to convert to a URL safe string. Someone could for instance use this:
Mess'd up --text-- just (to) stress /test/ ?our! `little` \\clean\\
url fun.ction!?-->");
Should return:
messd-up-text-just-to-stress-test-our-little-clean-url-function
Is your code ready for that? In that case you can use this function:
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF8');
function toAscii($str, $replace=array(), $delimiter='-') {
if( !empty($replace) ) {
$str = str_replace((array)$replace, ' ', $str);
}
$clean = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $str);
$clean = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\/_|+ -]/", '', $clean);
$clean = strtolower(trim($clean, '-'));
$clean = preg_replace("/[\/_|+ -]+/", $delimiter, $clean);
return $clean;
}
You can use array in pattern and replacement text. For example
$pattern=array();
$pattern[0]="/\\s/";
$pattern[1]="/-\/-/";
$replace=array();
$replace[0]="-";
$replace[1]="-";
preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $item_replace_en[0]);
You can use as many patterns and replacement you want. For more info, refer to http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php
Try this :
$returnValue = preg_replace('/(\\s\\/)?(\\s)/', '-',$item_replace_en[0]);
But this will not replace a string like "Music/ Film" or "Music /Film" or Music/Film.
