String to URI Format

[ShoeLace1291]

I've read up on the urlendcode functions in the PHP user manual, but it's all very confusing.  How would I convert a simple string that was creeated by a text input to a format such as this: 

 

site.com/articles/Some-URI

[OldWest]

Can you post an example of a string you are referring to?

[trq]

Can we have an example of what the inputted data might look like?

[ShoeLace1291]

Basically if a user chose a title such as PHP Freaks Is Awesome, i would want it to output php-freaks-is-awesome

[trq]

So replace spaces with - using str_replace.

[OldWest]

Here is some example code I wrote using an array to do this job for you. You can process your strings in various ways, but this will produce the desired result:

 

<?php
$search = array(' ');
$replace = array('-');
$subject = 'This is a string with spaces between each word.';
echo str_replace($search, $replace, $subject);
?>