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Description PHP

This function trims, converts spaces to dashes, converts &'s to 'and' and removes commas. It was designed to convert page titles to url-safe names for rewrite rules, thus helping search engines.

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function GenerateUrlSafe($text) {
    $text = convert_smart_quotes(strtolower($text));
    $text = str_replace(" ","-",trim(stripslashes($text)));
    $text = str_replace(",","",$text);
    $text = str_replace("'","",$text);
    $text = str_replace('"','',$text);
    $text = str_replace("#","_",$text);
    $text = str_replace("!","",$text);
    $text = str_replace("?","",$text);
    $text = str_replace("&","and",$text);
    $text = str_replace("/","",$text);
    $text = str_replace("\","",$text);
    $text = str_replace(":","",$text);
    $text = str_replace(";","",$text);
    $text = str_replace("<","",$text);
    $text = str_replace(">","",$text);
    $text = str_replace("@","",$text);
    $text = str_replace("*","",$text);
    $text = str_replace("---","-",$text);
    $text = str_replace("--","-",$text);
    return $text;
}

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