Format String, Replace Whitespaces With Slashes, Remove Forward/Backward Slashes

[JustinK101]

I need a way to take a string of text:

 

example: "Computers / Hardware"

 

And make it lowercase, remove any spaces (replace with _), and strip any forward or backward slashes. So the example becomes:

 

example fixed: "computers_hardware"

 

Thanks for the help.

[premiso]

<?php
$string = "COMPUTERS / HARDWARE";
$string = preg_replace("/[\/]/", "_", str_replace(" ", "", strtolower($string)));
echo $string;
die();
?>

 

Should work.

[JustinK101]

Premiso,

 

Thanks for the reply. Worked except on the case:

 

example: "Xbox Games"

 

output: "xboxgames"

 

Is it possible to put an underscore between xbox and games, so its "xbox_games"

[DarkWater]

<?php
$string = "Xbox Games";
$string = strtolower($string);
$string = preg_replace("/\s+/", "_", $string);
$string = str_replace(array('\\', '/'), '', $string);
$string = preg_replace("/_+/", "_", $string);
echo $string;
?>

 

Might want to put that into a function.

[JustinK101]

Darkwater,

 

Perfect, you are the man. Thanks greatly. Below is the final function for others to use if they need:

 

function url_text($text) {
		$text = strtolower($text);
		$text = preg_replace("/\s+/", "_", $text);
		$text = str_replace(array('\\', '/'), '', $text);
		$text = preg_replace("/_+/", "_", $text);
		return($text);
	}

[premiso]

<?php
$string = "XBOX HARDWARE";
$string = preg_replace("/\s+/ ", "_", preg_replace("/[\/]/", "", strtolower($string)));
echo $string;
die();
?>

 

A revised version, should work