create SEO links in PHP

Question

what is the best preg_replace to create an SEOed text to be used in uri ??

i mean like if we had this uri http://t.com/SOME RANDOM $#@ TEXT _ + ?/ =\ , what is best preg_replace expression to clean it up ?

Thank you .

EDIT : assuming you have multiple languages in the random text language ??

@BoltClock : yes , that is not a valid URI , lets assume that `SOME RANDOM $#@ TEXT _ + ?/ =\` is some entry from a database , and you want to use it in that position in that URI , how would you make it valid ? . — Rami Dabain, Jan 17 '11 at 11:03
@Gumbo : hmmm , i think a valid string that is accepted in a URI as a single parameter — Rami Dabain, Jan 17 '11 at 11:03

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 17 '11 at 10:52

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I guess what you're looking for is URL sanitizing. Here's a link to a filter for php: http://php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.sanitize.php

answered Jan 17 '11 at 10:52

kovshenin

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '11 at 10:59

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Do you mean a slug?

Slug('SOME RANDOM $#@ TEXT _ + ?/ =\\'); // some-random-text

For that this should be enough:

function Slug($string, $slug = '-')
{
    return strtolower(trim(preg_replace('~[^0-9a-z]+~i', $slug, $string), $slug));
}

answered Jan 17 '11 at 10:59

Alix Axel

assuming you have multiple languages in the random text language ?? – Rami Dabain Jan 17 '11 at 11:04
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@Ronan: For that, see this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2103797/url-friendly-username-in-php/2103815#2103815. – Alix Axel Jan 17 '11 at 11:06

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