in my functions.php if have this code:
echo '<a href="'.preg_replace('/\s/','-',$search).'-keyword1.html">'.urldecode($search).'</a>';
this removes the special chars..
but how can i additonally add remove space and replace it with - and remove "
so, if someone types in "yo! here" i want yo-here
Try:
<?php
$str = '"yo! here"';
$str = preg_replace( array('/[^\s\w]/','/\s/'),array('','-'),$str);
var_dump($str); // prints yo-here
?>
You can remove any non-words:
preg_replace('/\W/', '-', $search);
If you want to replace a run of unwanted characters with a single dash, then you can use something like this:
preg_replace('/\W+/', '-', $search);
To remove surrounding quotes, and then replace any other junk with dashes, try this:
$no_quotes = preg_replace('/^"|"$/', '', $search);
$no_junk = preg_replace('/\W+/', '-', $no_quotes);
This will replace multiple spaces / "special" chars with a single hyphen. If you don't want that, remove the "+".
You might want to trim off any trailing hyphens, should something end with an exclamation point / other.
<?php preg_replace("/\W+/", "-", "yo! here check this out"); ?>