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Hello,

How to make slug in routes (links) .. I have to convert " " in "-" and characters like "ä" in "a" , "ë" in "e" ...

Foe example:

I have in cars database table car_name "Aston Martin" .. when I want to open that car, url should bee api.car.dev/cars/aston-martin

For now i have cars id in my url but i want to change it to names.

// https://api.cars.dev/cars/{cars_id}
$router->addGet("/cars/{cars_id:[0-9]+}", array(
    'module' => 'cars',
    'controller' => 'cars',
    'action' => 'car'
));


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Hello, phalcon does not have such built in function. Here is a function i use:

    // Slugalize
    public static function slugalize($text)
    {
        // Latinize
        $cyrillic = array('А', 'Б', 'В', 'Г', 'Д', 'Е', 'Ж', 'З', 'И', 'Й', 'К', 'Л', 'М', 'Н', 'О', 'П', 'Р', 'С', 'Т', 'У', 'Ф', 'Х', 'Ц', 'Ч', 'Ш', 'Щ', 'Ъ', 'Ь', 'Ю', 'Я', 'а', 'б', 'в', 'г', 'д', 'е', 'ж', 'з', 'и', 'й', 'к', 'л', 'м', 'н', 'о', 'п', 'р', 'с', 'т', 'у', 'ф', 'х', 'ц', 'ч', 'ш', 'щ', 'ъ', 'ь', 'ю', 'я');
        $latin    = array('A', 'B', 'V', 'G', 'D', 'E', 'J', 'Z', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'F', 'H', 'C', 'Ch', 'Sh', 'Sht', 'Y', 'I', 'U', 'Ja', 'a', 'b', 'v', 'g', 'd', 'e', 'j', 'z', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'f', 'h', 'c', 'ch', 'sh', 'sht', 'y', 'i', 'u', 'ja');                
        $latinized = str_replace($cyrillic, $latin, $text);

        // Unaccent
        $unaccent = strtr($latinized, 'ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿ', 'AAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYTsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiienoooooouuuuyty');                

        // Urlize
        $urlized = trim(strtolower(preg_replace('/[^A-Z^a-z^0-9^\/]+/', '-', preg_replace('/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/','\1-\2', preg_replace('/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/','\1-\2', preg_replace('/::/', '/',$unaccent))))));

        return str_replace(array('_','/'), array('-',''), $urlized);        
    }

Its mostly for cyrilic alphabet, but should do the job for you as well, or you can modify it to fit your needs.



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edited Dec '15

But what problem you have ? Its only link. You can just put it like:

$router->addGet("/cars/{cars_brand}-{cars_model}", array(
    'module' => 'cars',
    'controller' => 'cars',
    'action' => 'car'
));

Then in controller:

$name="$cars_brand $cars_model";


23.6k
in reply to Wojciech Ślawski

But what problem you have ? Its only link. You can just put it like:

$router->addGet("/cars/{cars_brand}-{cars_model}", array(
   'module' => 'cars',
   'controller' => 'cars',
   'action' => 'car'
));

Then in controller:

$name="$cars_brand $cars_model";

Problem is when i have cars_brand like "Aston Martin" .. my link must looks like: api.cars.dev/cars/Aston-Martin

Also, Fiat "Stilö" .. my link must looks like: api.cars.dev/cars/Fiat/Stilo <--- (So ö is replaced with o)



145.0k

So let it look like this, i give you example above. Router and url have nothing to do with content in database.



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Accepted
answer

i use this in my ControllerBase :

 public function URLGenerator($str)
    {
        setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF8');
        $clean = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $str);
        $clean = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\/_| -]/", '', $clean);
        $clean = strtolower(trim($clean, '-'));
        $clean = preg_replace("/[\/_| -]+/", '-', $clean);
        return $clean;
    }


79.0k
edited May '16