On Aug 3, 2006, at 2:18 PM, anarchitect wrote:

>
> Good afternoon everbody, i have some troubles turning special
> characters into "clean characters" to use for a slug (read: clean url
> string). I am running a str_replace() over the data that i receive  
> from
> the model, yet it seams that special characters (such as öäü...) are
> encoded in something special, so that str_replace() won't work.
>
>       $title = $entry['Post']['title'];
>       $title = strtolower($title);
>       $umlaute = array ("ü", "ö", "ä", "ß");
>       $replace  = array ("ue", "oe", "ae", "ss");
>       $title = str_replace($umlaute, $replace, $title);
>       $title = preg_replace("/\W/", "", $title);
>       $entry['Post']['slug'] = $title;
>
> Any hints how i could turn de-code them from the model?
>
> Thanks for any help

Can you use urlencode()?

-- John
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