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Any functions built-in to slugify a string?

ShadowdareShadowdare MVP
edited May 2019 in Community Addons & Development

Does Vanilla currently have a function built-in to convert a string to a slug/URL code? Looking for a formatter on the PHP side, not the existing one written in JS for category settings.

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  • R_JR_J Admin

    Like slugify() in functions.general.php? 😉

  • x00x00 MVP
    edited May 2019

    or

    Gdn_Format::url()

    grep is your friend.

  • ShadowdareShadowdare MVP
    edited May 2019

    I was thinking of importing a library such as Slug Generator for an addon, but those would be quite useful. Thank you both for pointing those out! Do either of those algorithms handle special/international characters (Cyrillic, etc) well?

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  • R_JR_J Admin

    slugify uses iconv to "transliterate"

           // transliterate
       $text = iconv('utf-8', 'us-ascii//TRANSLIT', $text);
  • charrondevcharrondev Vanilla Staff

    Gdn_Format::url() just replaces unicode characters with hyphens.

  • ShadowdareShadowdare MVP
    edited May 2019

    I'll go with slugify() for this project. It doesn't seem to handle special inputs such as "富士山", which outputs "n-a" (wherein the result came out empty) instead of "fu-shi-shan", for example, but I can always use a library to handle this when the need arises. Thanks for the replies! 😀

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