I have a variable as shown below with upper case initials and a space. What would be ideal way to format so that it lower case the initials and puts "-" dash in between. So end result should be "los-angeles":
$city = "Los Angeles";
convert to
$city ="los-angeles";
To accomplish your specific task, you'd do:
$city = str_replace(' ','-',strtolower($city));
But, if you're doing this so that the string will work in a URL (as the comments have suggested), you should do:
$city = urlencode($city);
str_replace(' ', '-', strtolower($city));
But if you're trying to create url it won't be enough.
function slug($str)
{
$str = strtolower(trim($str));
$str = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-]/', '-', $str);
$str = preg_replace('/-+/', "-", $str);
return $str;
}
Assuming you're talking about PHP.
/** method slugify
*
* cleans up a string such as a page title
* so it becomes a readable valid url
*
* @param STR a string
* @return STR a url friendly slug
**/
function slugifyAlnum( $str ){
$str = preg_replace('#[^0-9a-z]#i', ' ', $str ); // allow letter and numbers only
$str = preg_replace('#( ){2,}#', ' ', $str ); // rm adjacent spaces
return strtolower( str_replace( ' ', '-', $str ) ); // slugify
}
Funny, I was working on this today, I trim it before sending it here, this func is for when Users are permitted to create a page title which you want to use to create a slug for mod_rewrite etc.
Allow for usual f-ups like more than one space, sticking non-alnum chars in it etc
