How can I create slugify in symfony2?

Question

I have started to use symfony2 and I have found some functions that exists in symfony 1.4 like slugify. I need this in order to improve the furl.

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '15 at 00:42

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If you have php-intl :

/**
 * Transform (e.g. "Hello World") into a slug (e.g. "hello-world").
 *
 * @param string $string
 *
 * @return string
 */
public function slugify($string)
{
    $rule = 'NFD; [:Nonspacing Mark:] Remove; NFC';
    $transliterator = \Transliterator::create($rule);
    $string = $transliterator->transliterate($string);

    return preg_replace(
        '/[^a-z0-9]/',
        '-',
        strtolower(trim(strip_tags($string)))
    );
}

Otherwise, have a look on the doctrine extensions

answered Jun 08 '15 at 00:42

Abdoul Ndiaye

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This answer is very simple and seems to work great so far as long as Transliterator is enabled. Thank you. – mr1031011 Oct 03 '15 at 15:19
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not enough people know that transforming a non-ascii input (like french with accents or æ that should be transformed into ae etc.) into ascii is a problem long solved in a standard way by unicode – allan.simon Nov 16 '16 at 00:05
Doctrine extension is using [Behat Transliterator](https://github.com/Behat/Transliterator) – ryabenko-pro May 03 '17 at 04:18

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '13 at 04:05

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Use either l3ppard's sluggable extension ( GitHub repository) ...

... or KnpLabs sluggable behavior ( GitHub repository ).

answered Jun 23 '13 at 04:05

Nicolai Fröhlich

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thanks a lot nifr. I'll try them. I have also see [stof](https://github.com/stof/StofDoctrineExtensionsBundle/blob/master/Resources/doc/index.rst). Witch do you think is the best option – gastonnina Jun 23 '13 at 15:02
StofDoctrineExtensions provides easier integration ( registering services, setting up the listeners ) in symfony2 but not the extensions themselves. – Nicolai Fröhlich Jun 23 '13 at 16:52
Late to the game but a non unique slug is next to useless for most use cases. – RichieHH Sep 29 '17 at 11:02
I've found this library - https://github.com/cocur/slugify. Works great. – Sergiy Zaharchenko Nov 22 '19 at 20:35

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 03 '15 at 19:10

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I used util.php for slugify. It doesn't require Symfony though, but works well with it.

util::slugify('This is a random --string with an Ãccent');
=> Returns 'this-is-a-random-string-with-an-accent'

answered Jun 03 '15 at 19:10

gorodezkiy

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How can I create slugify in symfony2?

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