http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:39:15 GMT DZone Snippets: Ceejayoz's Code Snippets http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/328 This function will turn any string into a safe string usable in a URI. <br /> <br /><code>function dirify($s) { <br /> $s = convert_high_ascii($s); ## convert high-ASCII chars to 7bit. <br /> $s = strtolower($s); ## lower-case. <br /> $s = strip_tags($s); ## remove HTML tags. <br /> $s = preg_replace('!&[^;\s]+;!','',$s); ## remove HTML entities. <br /> $s = preg_replace('![^\w\s.]!','',$s); ## remove non-word/space/period chars. <br /> $s = preg_replace('!\s+!','-',$s); ## change space chars to dashes. <br /> return $s; <br />} <br /> <br />function convert_high_ascii($s) { <br /> $HighASCII = array( <br /> "!\xc0!" => 'A', # A` <br /> "!\xe0!" => 'a', # a` <br /> "!\xc1!" => 'A', # A' <br /> "!\xe1!" => 'a', # a' <br /> "!\xc2!" => 'A', # A^ <br /> "!\xe2!" => 'a', # a^ <br /> "!\xc4!" => 'Ae', # A: <br /> "!\xe4!" => 'ae', # a: <br /> "!\xc3!" => 'A', # A~ <br /> "!\xe3!" => 'a', # a~ <br /> "!\xc8!" => 'E', # E` <br /> "!\xe8!" => 'e', # e` <br /> "!\xc9!" => 'E', # E' <br /> "!\xe9!" => 'e', # e' <br /> "!\xca!" => 'E', # E^ <br /> "!\xea!" => 'e', # e^ <br /> "!\xcb!" => 'Ee', # E: <br /> "!\xeb!" => 'ee', # e: <br /> "!\xcc!" => 'I', # I` <br /> "!\xec!" => 'i', # i` <br /> "!\xcd!" => 'I', # I' <br /> "!\xed!" => 'i', # i' <br /> "!\xce!" => 'I', # I^ <br /> "!\xee!" => 'i', # i^ <br /> "!\xcf!" => 'Ie', # I: <br /> "!\xef!" => 'ie', # i: <br /> "!\xd2!" => 'O', # O` <br /> "!\xf2!" => 'o', # o` <br /> "!\xd3!" => 'O', # O' <br /> "!\xf3!" => 'o', # o' <br /> "!\xd4!" => 'O', # O^ <br /> "!\xf4!" => 'o', # o^ <br /> "!\xd6!" => 'Oe', # O: <br /> "!\xf6!" => 'oe', # o: <br /> "!\xd5!" => 'O', # O~ <br /> "!\xf5!" => 'o', # o~ <br /> "!\xd8!" => 'Oe', # O/ <br /> "!\xf8!" => 'oe', # o/ <br /> "!\xd9!" => 'U', # U` <br /> "!\xf9!" => 'u', # u` <br /> "!\xda!" => 'U', # U' <br /> "!\xfa!" => 'u', # u' <br /> "!\xdb!" => 'U', # U^ <br /> "!\xfb!" => 'u', # u^ <br /> "!\xdc!" => 'Ue', # U: <br /> "!\xfc!" => 'ue', # u: <br /> "!\xc7!" => 'C', # ,C <br /> "!\xe7!" => 'c', # ,c <br /> "!\xd1!" => 'N', # N~ <br /> "!\xf1!" => 'n', # n~ <br /> "!\xdf!" => 'ss' <br /> ); <br /> $find = array_keys($HighASCII); <br /> $replace = array_values($HighASCII); <br /> $s = preg_replace($find,$replace,$s); <br /> return $s; <br />}</code> Thu, 26 May 2005 15:43:38 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/328 ceejayoz (ceejayoz)