API16:JFilterOutput/stringURLUnicodeSlug

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Description

This method implements unicode slugs instead of transliteration.

Syntax

stringURLUnicodeSlug($string)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$string		$input String to process

Returns

string Processed string

Defined in

libraries/joomla/filter/filteroutput.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.filter.filteroutput' );

Source Body

function stringURLUnicodeSlug($string)
{
        //replace double byte whitespaces by single byte (Far-East languages)
        $str = preg_replace('/\xE3\x80\x80/', ' ', $string);
 
 
        // remove any '-' from the string as they will be used as concatenator.
        // Would be great to let the spaces in but only Firefox is friendly with this
 
        $str = str_replace('-', ' ', $str);
 
        // replace forbidden characters by whitespaces
        $str = preg_replace( '#[:\#\*"@+=;!&%()\]\/\'\\\\|\[]#',"\x20", $str );
 
        //delete all '?'
        $str = str_replace('?', '', $str);
 
        //trim white spaces at beginning and end of alias
        $str = trim( $str );
 
        // remove any duplicate whitespace and replace whitespaces by hyphens
        $str =preg_replace('#\x20+#','-', $str);
        return $str;
}

Examples

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