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How to replace spaces and dashes when they appear together with only dash in PHP?
e.g below is my URL
http://kjd.case.150/1 BHK+Balcony- 700+ sqft. spacious apartmetn Bandra Wes In this I want to replace all special characters with dash in PHP. In the URL there is already one dash after "balcony". If I replace the dash with a special character, then it becomes two dashes because there's already one dash in the URL and I want only 1 dash.
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The str_replace() function replaces some characters with some other characters in a string. This function works by the following rules: If the string to be searched is an array, it returns an array. If the string to be searched is an array, find and replace is performed with every array element.
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. }
I'd say you may be want it other way. Not "spaces" but every non-alphanumeric character. Because there can be other characters, disallowed in the URl (+ sign, for example, which is used as a space replacement)
So, to make a valid url from a free-form text
$url = preg_replace("![^a-z0-9]+!i", "-", $url); If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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