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Description
Convert any string into an valid and readable string for usage in the url.
This is a PHP port of "URLify.js" from the Django project + fallback via "Portable ASCII".
We handles symbols from many languages via an matching-array and others via "ASCII::to_transliterate()".
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https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/js/urlify.js
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https://github.com/voku/portable-ascii
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https://github.com/voku/portable-utf8
Install via "composer require"
composer require voku/urlify
Usage:
namespace: "voku\helper\URLify"
To generate slugs for URLs:
echo URLify::filter(' J\'étudie le français ');
// "J-etudie-le-francais"
echo URLify::filter('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "Lo-siento-no-hablo-espanol"
To generate slugs for file names:
echo URLify::filter('????.jpg', 60, '', true);
// "foto.jpg"
To simply transliterate characters:
echo URLify::downcode('J\'étudie le français');
// "J'etudie le francais"
echo URLify::downcode('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "Lo siento, no hablo espanol."
/Or use transliterate() alias:/
echo URLify::transliterate('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "Lo siento, no hablo espanol."
To extend the character list:
URLify::add_chars(array(
  '¿' => '?', '®' => '(r)', '¼' => '1/4',
  '½' => '1/2', '¾' => '3/4', '¶' => 'P'
));
echo URLify::downcode('¿ ® ½ ¼ ¾ ¶');
// "? (r) 1/2 1/4 3/4 P"
To extend or replace the default replacing list:
URLify::add_array_to_seperator(array(
  "/®/"
));
echo URLify::filter('¿ ® ½ ¼ ¾ ¶');
// "12-14-34-P"
To extend the list of words to remove for one language:
URLify::remove_words(array('remove', 'these', 'too'), 'de');
To prioritize a certain language map:
echo URLify::filter(' Ägypten und Österreich besitzen wie üblich ein Übermaß an ähnlich öligen Attachés ', 60, 'de');
// "Aegypten-und-Oesterreich-besitzen-wie-ueblich-ein-Uebermass-aehnlich-oeligen-Attaches"
   
echo URLify::filter('Ca?alo?lu, çal??t???, müjde, laz?m, mahkûm', 60, 'tr');
// "Cagaloglu-calistigi-mujde-lazim-mahkum"
Please note that the "ü" is transliterated to "ue" in the first case, whereas it results in a simple "u" in the latter.
Available languages
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Arabic: 'ar'
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Austrian (German): 'de_at' 
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Austrian (French): 'fr_at'
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Azerbaijani: 'az'
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Bulgarian: 'bg'
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Burmese: 'by'
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Croatian: 'hr'
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Czech: 'cs'
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Danish: 'da'
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English: 'en'
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Esperanto: 'eo'
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Estonian: 'et'
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Finnish: 'fi'
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French: 'fr'
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Georgian: 'ka'
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German: 'de'
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Greek: 'el' 
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Hindi: 'hi'
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Hungarian: 'hu'
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Kazakh: 'kk'
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Latvian: 'lv'
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Lithuanian: 'lt'
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Norwegian: 'no'
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Polish: 'pl'
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Romanian: 'ro'
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Russian: 'ru'
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Serbian: 'sr'
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Slovak: 'sk'
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Swedish: 'sv'
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Switzerland (German): 'de_ch' 
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Switzerland (French): 'fr_ch' 
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Turkish: 'tr'
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Ukrainian: 'uk'
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Vietnamese: 'vn'
Support
For support and donations please visit Github | Issues | PayPal | Patreon.
For status updates and release announcements please visit Releases | Twitter | Patreon.
For professional support please contact me.
Thanks
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Thanks to GitHub (Microsoft) for hosting the code and a good infrastructure including Issues-Managment, etc.
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Thanks to IntelliJ as they make the best IDEs for PHP and they gave me an open source license for PhpStorm!
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Thanks to Travis CI for being the most awesome, easiest continous integration tool out there!
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Thanks to StyleCI for the simple but powerfull code style check.
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Thanks to PHPStan && Psalm for relly great Static analysis tools and for discover bugs in the code!