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<?php function SilentGhost($z){ $z = strtolower($z); $z = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9 -]+/', '', $z); $z = str_replace(' ', '-', $z); return trim($z, '-'); } function mario($z) { return strtolower(trim(preg_replace("/[^\w]+/", "-", $z), "-")); } function Rooneyl($string) { $new_string = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/", "", $string); $url = preg_replace('/\s/', '-', $new_string); $new_url = urlencode($url); return $new_url; } function AbhishekGoel($string) { $string = str_replace(' ', '-', $string); // Replaces all spaces with hyphens. $string = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $string); // Removes special chars. return preg_replace('/-+/', '-', $string); // Replaces multiple hyphens with single one. } function HelloHack($data) { $data = trim($data); $data = stripslashes($data); $data = htmlspecialchars($data); return $data; } function DenisMatafonov($str) { $withSpecCharacters = htmlspecialchars($str); $splitted_str = str_split($str); $result = ''; foreach ($splitted_str as $letter){ if (strpos($withSpecCharacters, $letter) !== false) { $result .= $letter; } } return $result; } function AdeelRazaAzeemi($str) { $str = str_replace(' ', '-', $str); $str = preg_replace('/[^\x20-\x7E]/', '', $str); return $str; } function mickmackusa($string) { return trim(preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9]+/', '-', strtolower($string)), '-'); } $strings = [ 'This, is - - the URL!', 'Mork & Mindy', 'What the_underscore ?!?' ]; $funcs = ['SilentGhost', 'mario', 'Rooneyl', 'AbhishekGoel', 'HelloHack', 'DenisMatafonov', 'AdeelRazaAzeemi', 'mickmackusa']; foreach ($strings as $string) { echo "\n---\n" . var_export($string, true) . "\tinput\n"; foreach ($funcs as $func) { echo var_export($func($string), true) . "\t$func\n"; } }