Turn a string of characters into a lowercased hyphenated string

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Turn a string of characters into a lowercased hyphenated string

slugify.php

<?php

/**
 * Turn a string of characters into a lowercased hyphenated string
 * @param  string $text The string of text to hyphenate
 * @return string       The hyphenated string of text
 * @author michael alexander
 */
function slugify($text)
{
  // replace non letter or digits by -
  $text = preg_replace('~[^\\pL\d]+~u', '-', $text);

  // trim
  $text = trim($text, '-');

  // transliterate
  $text = iconv('utf-8', 'us-ascii//TRANSLIT', $text);

  // lowercase
  $text = strtolower($text);

  // remove unwanted characters
  $text = preg_replace('~[^-\w]+~', '', $text);

  if (empty($text))
  {
   return 'n-a';
  }
  return $text;
}