Last Updated: May 31, 2021
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· ichiriac

Generic way to sanitize url by stripping any special char

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OK, great. Now try to transform this 'sanitized' URL back?

Some religious rules disallow you use urlencode()?

By the way, do you happen to know this guy?)
https://coderwall.com/p/a-viza

over 1 year ago ·

@dimasmagadan Hi,

The short answer for not using urlencode is yes, I know about it and I don't want to use it.

For more explanations, the reason is that I need to build a unique URLs index and I don't care about retrieving the original title from the URL, but with these function I can filter all url variations and be sure that urls are not the same :

  • case sensitive
  • ignore any accents
  • removing tags
  • remove special chars
  • (optionnaly) only alpha numerics
over 1 year ago ·