In a recent changeset a nice, little function has been introduced: Inflector::slug(). Such a function is used for example in blogs to create urls from titles.
Its usage is simple:
echo Inflector::slug('This is a test');
// outputs: This_is_a_test
echo Inflector::slug('This is a test', '-');
// outputs: This-is-a-test
You have to be careful with this function if you use it for example with german umlauts, as you may get an unexpected result:
echo Inflector::slug('Es sind Kühe auf der Wiese');
// outputs: Es_sind_K_he_auf_der_Wiese
I think you should help write the new 1.2 docs!!!
This was a great find. And thanks for sticking around and writing about cake ;)
This is a cool find, but I guess the utility is restricted to the English charset
I’ve made such function myself 2 days ago :)
It’s pretty simple to do it, but I hed some problem with non English characters. I have to test this one, but from the explanation it’s looking very good.
keep up the good work Daniel :)
@all: Thanks for your comments!
@Beth: Well, as I don’t agree with the way the documentation is developed it doesn’t make sense for me to help with the 1.2 docs. And another reason is that I no longer get credits for what I did for the 1.1 manual… So I better invest my time into other projects resp. this blog :)
@Nik: As I showed with the German umlauts you may get an unexpected result when using non-English characters. But of course it is worth a test.
Wow! So cool!
It’s worth a look at how WordPress does this conversion — it accounts for encoding and everything. I’ve used that technique for many projects.
@Pat: Thanks for the tip with Wordpress. Do you know in which file this conversion happens?