This should do what you’re looking for: function clean($string) { $string = str_replace(‘ ‘, ‘-‘, $string); // Replaces all spaces with hyphens. return preg_replace(‘/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/’, ”, $string); // Removes special chars. } Usage: echo clean(‘a|”bc!@£de^&$f g’); Will output: abcdef-g Edit: Hey, just a quick question, how can I prevent multiple hyphens from being next to each … Read more
I just store the slugs in my database table, in a column called slug, then find a post with the slug, like this: public function view($slug) { $query = $this->db->get_where(‘posts’, array(‘slug’ => $slug), 1); // Fetch the post row, display the post view, etc… } Also, to easily derive a slug from your post title, … Read more
The easiest way I’ve found: var str = “Rånades på Skyttis i Ö-vik”; var combining = /[\u0300-\u036F]/g; console.log(str.normalize(‘NFKD’).replace(combining, ”)); For reference see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/normalize
In Rails you can use #parameterize For example: > “Foo bar`s”.parameterize => “foo-bar-s”
The reason for this constrain could be that you didn’t have any field called slug in Category class when you have initially migrated it (First Migration), and after adding this field in the model, when you ran makemigrations, you have set default value to something static value(i.e None or ” etc), and which broke the … Read more
I have no idea where the ‘slug’ term came from, but here we go: function convertToSlug(Text) { return Text.toLowerCase() .replace(/ /g, ‘-‘) .replace(/[^\w-]+/g, ”); } The first replace method will change spaces to hyphens, second, replace removes anything not alphanumeric, underscore, or hyphen. If you don’t want things “like – this” turning into “like—this” then … Read more
You will need to use the slugify function. >>> from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify >>> slugify(“b b b b”) u’b-b-b-b’ >>> You can call slugify automatically by overriding the save method: class Test(models.Model): q = models.CharField(max_length=30) s = models.SlugField() def save(self, *args, **kwargs): self.s = slugify(self.q) super(Test, self).save(*args, **kwargs) Be aware that the above will cause … Read more
There is a python package named python-slugify, which does a pretty good job of slugifying: pip install python-slugify Works like this: from slugify import slugify txt = “This is a test —” r = slugify(txt) self.assertEquals(r, “this-is-a-test”) txt = “This — is a ## test —” r = slugify(txt) self.assertEquals(r, “this-is-a-test”) txt=”C\”est déjà l\’été.’ r … Read more
The slugs make the URL more user-friendly and you know what to expect when you click a link. Search engines such as Google, rank the pages higher if the searchword is in the URL.
There are two steps to solve this problem. First, create a new route or change the default route to accept an additional parameter: routes.MapRoute( “Default”, // Route name “{controller}/{action}/{id}/{ignoreThisBit}”, new { controller = “Home”, action = “Index”, id = “”, ignoreThisBit = “”} // Parameter defaults ) Now you can type whatever you want to … Read more