preg_match that removes all the special chars & non-url ones

[AndyPSV]

I've got already one that does it, but it stops after "=" sign. How to deal with it (that the function would not stop?)

 

function _url($name) { # parse url
$sign = '-'; $name = str_replace('"','',$name); $name = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/","",$name); $name = str_replace(' ',$sign,$name); $name = str_replace($sign.$sign,$sign,$name); $name = str_replace($sign.$sign.$sign,$sign,$name); $name = str_replace($sign.$sign.$sign,$sign.$sign,$name);
return $name;
}

[AndyPSV]

found that, the problem wasn't in this; it was somewhere else

[AndyPSV]

function _url($name,$lenght='') { /* parse URL */
if(strlen($name) > $lenght) { $name = substr($name,0,$titleLenght); $tiny = 1; }

$sign = '-'; $name = unhtmlspecialchars($name); $name = str_replace('-',' ',$name); $name = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/","",$name); $name = str_replace(' ',$sign,$name);
$name = str_replace($sign.$sign,$sign,$name); $name = str_replace($sign.$sign.$sign,$sign,$name); $name = str_replace($sign.$sign.$sign,$sign,$name); $name = str_replace($sign.$sign.$sign.$sign,$sign,$name);

if($tiny == 1) { if(strpos($name,'-') !== false) $name = substr($name,0,strrpos($name,'-')); if(substr($name,-1) == $sign) $name = substr($name,0,-1); }
if(substr($name,-1) == '-') $name = substr($name,0,-1); if(substr($name,-1) == '-') $name = substr($name,0,-1); if(substr($name,-1) == '-') $name = substr($name,0,-1); if(substr($name,-1) == '-') $name = substr($name,0,-1);

return $name;
}

[AndyPSV]

fixed. think that final; put it, because it might be useful for somebody.

 

function _url($name,$lenght='') { /* parse URL */
if(strlen($name) > $lenght) { $name = substr($name,0,$lenght); $tiny = 1; }

$sign = '-'; $name = unhtmlspecialchars($name); $name = str_replace('-',' ',$name); $name = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/","",$name); $name = str_replace(' ',$sign,$name);
for($i = 0; $i <= 10; $i++) $name = str_replace($sign.$sign,$sign,$name);

if($tiny == 1) { if(strpos($name,'-') !== false) $name = substr($name,0,strrpos($name,'-')); if(substr($name,-1) == $sign) $name = substr($name,0,-1); }
for($i = 0; $i <= 10; $i++) if(substr($name,-1) == '-') $name = substr($name,0,-1);

return $name;
}