Renaming/Replacing Names

[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

 

I use this function to generate seo friendly names for my products once pulled from the database:

 

function generate_seo_friendly_links($pNM, $pID)
{
    $replacedNM = str_replace(" ", "-", $pNM);  
    $replacedNM = rtrim($replacedNM);  
    $brandNewSEOFriendlyURL = "<a href='$replacedNM-$pID.html'>$pNM</a>";    
    return $brandNewSEOFriendlyURL;
}

 

This works great, the only thing is say a product is stored in the database like:

 

product name it would then be converted to: product-name.html

 

if for example theres 2 spaces:

 

product  name it would then be converted to: product--name.html

 

with the 2 "--" so for every space it finds we replace with a "-" etc

 

is there a way i could ignore more than 1 space and always have it like product-name-here.html so the names are more uniformed, i can't think of a way to do it.

 

any help would be appreciated

 

thanks guys

 

Graham

[ram4nd]

ise "while" loop and" str_replace"