Codeigniter's url_title() change UTF8 Characters to specified Latin

Question

Is it possible to make url_title() produce rephrasing of this strings:

čolić
nešto

Into:

colic
nesto

I believe that this could be useful with Latin-base UTF8 languages and setting up more pretty and descriptive URLs for non-Latin languages.

Just to be clear, this has little to do with UTF-8. You just want to convert latin characters with diacritics into similar latin characters without diacritics. — deceze, Dec 11 '11 at 23:55
For example like this: [How to remove diacritics from text?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1770250/how-to-remove-diacritics-from-text) — deceze, Dec 11 '11 at 23:57
It should be that. Is it possible to alter `url_title()` to do that automatically, without writing additional function? — Dexy_Wolf, Dec 12 '11 at 00:03
I am new to CodeIgniter world, so I forgot that I could extend helpers. Thank you for the comment. — Dexy_Wolf, Dec 12 '11 at 00:19

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '11 at 13:58

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Just tie into the convert_accented_characters function:

url_title(convert_accented_characters('čolić'));

answered Dec 12 '11 at 13:58

Eric

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what is this function `convert_accented_characters` all about? – ajreal Dec 12 '11 at 14:04
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Best bet is to look it up here: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/text_helper.html - Also it uses the foreign_chars config so if a translation is missing you can modify that file. – Eric Dec 17 '11 at 05:47
I've been using CI for almost two years and didn't even know about that function. Nice! – Víctor López García Jun 27 '12 at 18:17
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Don't forget to load both helpers. `$this->load->helper (array ('text', 'url'));` – Márton Tamás Jun 06 '17 at 17:52

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 30 '20 at 14:42

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I'm using

$this->load->helper('text');
$string = 'tèst Tést ççÇçandãÃ';
$title = url_title(convert_accented_characters(utf8_encode(strtolower($string)));
// return: test-test-cccandaa

edited May 30 '20 at 14:42

Umair Khan

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answered Jun 27 '16 at 14:11

Stenio L. de Souza

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Codeigniter's url_title() change UTF8 Characters to specified Latin

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