Convert any title to url slug and back from url slug to title

Question

I want to convert any title e.g. of a blog entry to a user friendly url. I used rawurlencode() to do that but it gives me a lot of strange strings like %s.

Answer 1

The most elegant way I think is using a Behat\Transliterator\Transliterator.

I need to extends this class by your class because it is an Abstract, some like this:

And then, just use it:

$text = "Master Ápiu";
$urlizer = new Urlizer();
$slug = $urlizer->transliterate($slug, "-");
echo $slug; // master-apiu

Of course you should put this things in your composer as well.

composer require behat/transliterator

More info here https://github.com/Behat/Transliterator