Comments on: Generate Slugs from Strings with PHP

By: Gary Cao

Gary Cao — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:38:35 +0000

Thanks for the post. I got the same thing working for javascript too:

// Convert a string to a valid identifier
String.prototype.toSlug = function(){
var slug = this.replace(’ ‘,’-').toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9-]/g,”);
return slug;
}

Calling toSlug() on a string object will return a valid slug.

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Grant Watson’s links for 2008-09-24 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:02:36 +0000

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By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:22:44 +0000

Joe: Of course you’re right. It’s fixed now–thank you.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:10:46 +0000

I believe you wanted
$slug = str_replace( ‘ ‘, ‘-’, $slug ); // substitute the spaces with hyphens
for line 3, you had a period in the place of a comma.