How to Create URL Slug from Post Title

If you are working with PHP and developing portal like any CMS, you must need user friednly URL and for that you have to create dynamic auto generated URL. A slug is a part of the URL to access the content. Here I will let you know how to create URL slug from post title.

You can replace spaces with dashes later to make it more like a slug. As you can see this isn’t the most user friendly URL so you need to be able to replace the spaces with hyphens. This is a really basic question – but what is meant by the term ‘category slug‘ when … See, now, I was thinking how cool it would be if I could use a tag like, regular expression function that replaces spaces between words with hyphens.

Code for How to Create URL Slug from Post Title

<?php
function create_slug($string){
$myslug=preg_replace(‘/[^A-Za-z0-9-]+/’, ‘-‘, $string);
return $myslug;
}
echo create_slug(‘This is working good’);
//returns ‘this-is-working-good’
?>


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