Help with special characters in the url

[ryan3477]

Shortly, i am using OpenRealty but it doesnt SEO friendly urls very well with special characters (turkish in my case)

 

The original lines go on like this :

  $this->page = preg_replace_callback('/{page_link_(.*?)}/is', create_function('$matches', 'global $config; require_once($config[\'basepath\'].\'/include/page_display.inc.php\'); $title = page_display::get_page_title($matches[1]); $title = strtolower(str_replace(" ", $config[\'seo_url_seperator\'], $title)); return $config[\'baseurl\'].\'/page-\'.urlencode($title).\'-\'.$matches[1].\'.html\';'), $this->page);

 

I have tried adding below arrays and using str_replace:

 

			$trchar = array("s", "ü", "i", "ö", "S", "G", "g", "ç", "I", "Ç", "Ö", "Ü");
		$enchar = array("s", "u", "i", "o", "S", "G", "g", "c", "I", "C", "O","U");
		$this->page = preg_replace_callback('/{page_link_(.*?)}/is', create_function('$matches', 'global $config; require_once($config[\'basepath\'].\'/include/page_display.inc.php\'); $title = page_display::get_page_title($matches[1]); $title = strtolower(str_replace($trkar, $enkar, $title)); return $config[\'baseurl\'].\'/page-\'.urlencode($title).\'-\'.$matches[1].\'.html\';'), $this->page);

 

but it doesnt seem to work.. any help would be appreciated thanks in advance

[gwolgamott]

Have you tried using  urlencode()? I asking about using a & in the url a while ago and was told to use that, worked good for me to fix that issue. Not sure if that will help with your issue, but could try it.

 

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

[ryan3477]

it already does encode however its just useful for not getting 404's, otherwise it does not help the links being readable or seo friendly..."Te%3Fxt%d" etc etc.. does this look friendly to you ?

 

i gotta convert/replace turkish characters to with the ones from the english alphabet.. it seems like a easy task for someone with a reasonable php knowledge, noone else ?

[jl5501]

I would suggest that you need an addon for OR, or an extension to the SEO code, to handle the conversion of the non english characters

[gwolgamott]

misread what you wanted apparently. Anyways doesn't open reality use a special htaccess setting that will do this

 

EDIT: not for the replace of characters, but can do that in another manner. For that is not just simply replacing the characters.