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[Nocturne]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get some nice clean urls for my website. Right now they include () , & , " and so on and some letters are uppercase....

Is there any way to automatically remove all the special characters and convert the url to lowercase?

This is the code which output my urls:

<a href="{$item.id}/{$item.title|replace:" ":"-"|escape:"htmlall"}" class="sitelink">{$item.title|truncate:30:"...":true|replace:"_":" "}</a>

Thanks in advance & merry christmas

[rc69]

What language are you working with?! That almost looks like something is ran through a template class, but it is nothing i recognize.

If you're in php, i'd say use strtolower() and then replace everything but the accepted characters (which preg_replace() could do easily).

If you are actually using a template class, then which one is it? Short of knowing that, i would recommend asking whom ever made it for support on how to use it.

[Nocturne]

rc69, on Dec 19 2007, 12:09 AM, said:

What language are you working with?! That almost looks like something is ran through a template class, but it is nothing i recognize.

If you're in php, i'd say use strtolower() and then replace everything but the accepted characters (which preg_replace() could do easily).

If you are actually using a template class, then which one is it? Short of knowing that, i would recommend asking whom ever made it for support on how to use it.

Hi, thanks for your quick answer. I think the template class is "Smarty" and yes it is a php script.

Should I write it as this?

preg_replace:" ":"-","&":"-"

Sorry for being such a noob, but I really appreciate the help...