🔗 URLify

Description

Convert any string into an valid and readable string for usage in the url.

This is a PHP port of "URLify.js" from the Django project + fallback via "Portable ASCII". We handles symbols from many languages via an matching-array and others via "ASCII::to_transliterate()".

• https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/js/urlify.js
• https://github.com/voku/portable-ascii
• https://github.com/voku/portable-utf8

Install via "composer require"

composer require voku/urlify

Usage:

namespace: "voku\helper\URLify"

To generate slugs for URLs:

echo URLify::filter(' J\'étudie le français ');
// "J-etudie-le-francais"

echo URLify::filter('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "Lo-siento-no-hablo-espanol"

To generate slugs for file names:

echo URLify::filter('фото.jpg', 60, '', true);
// "foto.jpg"

To simply transliterate characters:

echo URLify::downcode('J\'étudie le français');
// "J'etudie le francais"

echo URLify::downcode('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "Lo siento, no hablo espanol."

/* Or use transliterate() alias: */

echo URLify::transliterate('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "Lo siento, no hablo espanol."

To extend the character list:

URLify::add_chars(array(
  '¿' => '?', '®' => '(r)', '¼' => '1/4',
  '½' => '1/2', '¾' => '3/4', '¶' => 'P'
));

echo URLify::downcode('¿ ® ½ ¼ ¾ ¶');
// "? (r) 1/2 1/4 3/4 P"

To extend or replace the default replacing list:

URLify::add_array_to_seperator(array(
  "/®/"
));

echo URLify::filter('¿ ® ½ ¼ ¾ ¶');
// "12-14-34-P"

To extend the list of words to remove for one language:

URLify::remove_words(array('remove', 'these', 'too'), 'de');

To prioritize a certain language map:

echo URLify::filter(' Ägypten und Österreich besitzen wie üblich ein Übermaß an ähnlich öligen Attachés ', 60, 'de');
// "Aegypten-und-Oesterreich-besitzen-wie-ueblich-ein-Uebermass-aehnlich-oeligen-Attaches"
   
echo URLify::filter('Cağaloğlu, çalıştığı, müjde, lazım, mahkûm', 60, 'tr');
// "Cagaloglu-calistigi-mujde-lazim-mahkum"

Please note that the "ü" is transliterated to "ue" in the first case, whereas it results in a simple "u" in the latter.

Available languages

• Arabic: 'ar'
• Austrian (German): 'de_at'
• Austrian (French): 'fr_at'
• Azerbaijani: 'az'
• Bulgarian: 'bg'
• Burmese: 'by'
• Croatian: 'hr'
• Czech: 'cs'
• Danish: 'da'
• English: 'en'
• Esperanto: 'eo'
• Estonian: 'et'
• Finnish: 'fi'
• French: 'fr'
• Georgian: 'ka'
• German: 'de'
• Greek: 'el'
• Hindi: 'hi'
• Hungarian: 'hu'
• Kazakh: 'kk'
• Latvian: 'lv'
• Lithuanian: 'lt'
• Norwegian: 'no'
• Polish: 'pl'
• Romanian: 'ro'
• Russian: 'ru'
• Serbian: 'sr'
• Slovak: 'sk'
• Swedish: 'sv'
• Switzerland (German): 'de_ch'
• Switzerland (French): 'fr_ch'
• Turkish: 'tr'
• Ukrainian: 'uk'
• Vietnamese: 'vn'

Support

For support and donations please visit Github | Issues | PayPal | Patreon.

For status updates and release announcements please visit Releases | Twitter | Patreon.

For professional support please contact me.

Thanks

• Thanks to GitHub (Microsoft) for hosting the code and a good infrastructure including Issues-Managment, etc.
• Thanks to IntelliJ as they make the best IDEs for PHP and they gave me an open source license for PhpStorm!
• Thanks to GitHub Actions for providing the CI pipeline for this project!
• Thanks to StyleCI for the simple but powerful code style check.
• Thanks to PHPStan && Psalm for really great Static analysis tools and for discovering bugs in the code!