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Slug Generator that works! JavaScript and PHP
<?php
//ref: http://cubiq.org/the-perfect-php-clean-url-generator
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 $clean;
}
function string_to_slug(str) {
str = str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ""); // trim
str = str.toLowerCase();
// remove accents, swap ñ for n, etc
var from = "àáäâèéëêìíïîòóöôùúüûñç·/_,:;";
var to = "aaaaeeeeiiiioooouuuunc------";
for (var i=0, l=from.length ; i<l ; i++) {
str = str.replace(new RegExp(from.charAt(i), "g"), to.charAt(i));
}
str = str.replace(/[^a-z0-9 -]/g, "") // remove invalid chars
.replace(/\s+/g, "-") // collapse whitespace and replace by -
.replace(/-+/g, "-"); // collapse dashes
return str;
}
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