- function_exists: documentation ( source)
- trim: documentation ( source)
- utf8_encode: documentation ( source)
- preg_replace: documentation ( source)
- strtolower: documentation ( source)
- iconv: documentation ( source)
<?php
$val = utf8_encode("á|â|à|å|ä ð|é|ê|è|ë í|î|ì|ï ó|ô|ò|ø|õ|ö ú|û|ù|ü æ ç ß abc ABC 123");
echo iconv('UTF-8','us-ascii//TRANSLIT//IGNORE',$val);
function slugify($text)
{
// replace non letter or digits by -
$text = preg_replace('#[^\\pL\d]+#u', '-', $text);
// trim
$text = trim($text, '-');
// transliterate
if (function_exists('iconv'))
{
$text = iconv('utf-8', 'us-ascii//TRANSLIT', $text);
}
// lowercase
$text = strtolower($text);
// remove unwanted characters
$text = preg_replace('#[^-\w]+#', '', $text);
if (empty($text))
{
return 'n-a';
}
return $text;
}
echo slugify(utf8_encode('é')); // --> "e"