Need help for creating URL using PHP Reg Exp

[kks_krishna]

HI,

 

I want to create urls dynamically when i am inserting the new data to database.

 

ForExample,

 

If the story title is :

 

What is new in Site?

 

It should be converted as :

 

what-is-new-in-site.html

 

It shouldn't allow any special characters in the URL.

 

How can I do this?

[chocopi]

well to convert the spaces you would so something like

 

<?php

 

$str = "What is new in Site?";

$new_str = str_replace(" ","-",$str);

 

echo $str;

echo $new_str;

 

?>

[Yesideez]

I'd make one small change to that:

<?php
  $str="What is new in Site?";
  $new_str=strtolower(str_replace(" ","-",$str));
  echo $str;
  echo $new_str;
?>

 

Best to keep URLs lower case. You'd also want to remove all non allowed characters like the ? as that wouldn't be allowed in the URL. Not exactly sure how that'd be done although I have written this regex string to grab everything except the ?

 

([ a-zA-Z]*)

[kks_krishna]

I don't want to show any special characters other than "-".

[chocopi]

I dont quite understand.

 

Do you want an error if anything but alpha-numeric and - come up

 

OR

Do you want it just to remove them so

 

HE-LLO$^ M"Y n@A~me IS C-h(oc*o&pi

 

would become

 

HE-LLO MY nAme IS C-hocopi

 

~ Chocopi

[kks_krishna]

 

Do you want it just to remove them so

 

HE-LLO$^ M"Y n@A~me IS C-h(oc*o&pi

 

would become

 

HE-LLO MY nAme IS C-hocopi

 

Yes, I want to remove all..but the spaces will be replaed with "-" and also there should not more than one "-" continuosly like "---". It should be trimed to "-"

 

 

Thanks,

krishna