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September 12, 2011 14:31
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JavaScript Slug Generator
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| // Generates a URL-friendly "slug" from a provided string. | |
| // For example: "This Is Great!!!" transforms into "this-is-great" | |
| function generateSlug (value) { | |
| // 1) convert to lowercase | |
| // 2) remove dashes and pluses | |
| // 3) replace spaces with dashes | |
| // 4) remove everything but alphanumeric characters and dashes | |
| return value.toLowerCase().replace(/-+/g, '').replace(/\s+/g, '-').replace(/[^a-z0-9-]/g, ''); | |
| }; |
Just a heads-up: You should probably swap steps 3 and 4, otherwise you can end up with more consecutive dashes again after stripping some characters. Step 2 is probably superfluous given the steps that follow.
thanks @pid
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take a look to http://pid.github.io/speakingurl/ slugify with a lot of options ;-)