How to create SEO URLs from String in PHP

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.URLs or web address used to locate exact information page on the web like http://blog.webcomers.com/how-to-create it’s a URL , where how-to-create is  created from a string and in this tutorial I will give you a method to know about that function of PHP. This is a very basic solution for PHP Developers.

Here is the code snippet to create URLs from a String.

Step 1: It is very simple just create the function with the name prety_url as shown below in the code.

<?php
function prety_url($str){
if($str !== mb_convert_encoding( mb_convert_encoding($str, ‘UTF-32’, ‘UTF-8’), ‘UTF-8’, ‘UTF-32’) )
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, ‘UTF-8’, mb_detect_encoding($str));
$str = htmlentities($str, ENT_NOQUOTES, ‘UTF-8’);
$str = preg_replace(‘`&([a-z]{1,2})(acute|uml|circ|grave|ring|cedil|slash|tilde|caron|lig);`i’, ‘\1’, $str);
$str = html_entity_decode($str, ENT_NOQUOTES, ‘UTF-8’);
$str = preg_replace(array(‘`[^a-z0-9]`i’,’`[-]+`’), ‘-‘, $str);
$str = strtolower( trim($str, ‘-‘) );
return $str;
}

?>

Step 2: Now call the function with passing the string  parameter.

<?php
$str = “How to Create OPTIMIZE URL”; // this string will be submitted in parameter.
echo prety_url($str); // show optimized url string.
?>

Output: After calling the function the string(How to Create OPTIMIZE URL) will be converted to how-to-create-optimize-url

This function first of all convert string to utf-8 after that use perg_replace and change white spaces to “-” and remove special characters.

These URLs also make good impact on your SEO and recommended by Google.

I hope it will be helpful for web developers..