Removing Special Characters for Creating a Clean URL

[Usman Haider]

Mostly custom scripts requires to create a clean SEO friendly URL by removing all special characters from the given text and converting all spaces to dashes. This can be done very easily by using the following simple code:

Creating a clean SEO Friendly URL

PHP

//removing special characters and converting spaces to dashes. $string = "A string with MULTIPLE spaces and -- dashes and Speci@l Ch@r@ct$ERS %^&!@#)*&%*(){}<>?/\;:.-+=_-"; $string = str_replace("-"," ",$string); //converting dashes to spaces, to avoid multiple dashes in a url afterwards. $string = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\s\s+]/', "", $string); //removing everything except spaces, capital letters, small letters and numbers. $string = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $string); //replacing multiple spaces into a single space. $clean_seo_url = str_replace(" ","-",$string); //this will give you a clean seo friendly url.

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//removing special characters and converting spaces to dashes. $string = "A string with  MULTIPLE spaces and -- dashes and [email protected] [email protected]@ct$ERS %^&[email protected]#)*&%*(){}<>?/\;:.-+=_-"; $string = str_replace("-"," ",$string); //converting dashes to spaces, to avoid multiple dashes in a url afterwards. $string = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\s\s+]/', "", $string); //removing everything except spaces, capital letters, small letters and numbers. $string = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $string); //replacing multiple spaces into a single space. $clean_seo_url = str_replace(" ","-",$string); //this will give you a clean seo friendly url.

hope your SEO problem regarding URLs is solved. 🙂

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