Is there a php or vbulletin function that will

[amykhar]

strip any character out of a string that can't be in a url?

Amy

[Marco van Herwaarden]

html_specialcharacters? or do you want to have them really removed?

[Zero Tolerance]

I think she means strip any character of a string that would cause it to be invalid URL, i'd personally just bash the string against a function to check the string is a valid URL in the first place.

- Zero Tolerance

[amykhar]

What I'm trying to do is remove spaces and punctuation and anything goofy from a string that would make it mess up a url if I were to put the string in a url.

I know I can use eregi, but figured there might be a standard function designed for this.

For example, given "Amy's Wonderful Userpage Hack", it would return, AmysWonderfulUserpageHack

no apostrophes and no spaces.

Amy

[AN-net]

i thought i saw once in functions_newpost.php(3.0.x) something about sanitize url>_>

[amykhar]

What about this one? urlencode() I think that puppy may do what I need.

Amy

[amykhar]

I'm going to look at sanitize url and see if it's any better. I'm not crazy about the looks of this:

http://www.eaforums.com/forums/quiz/Art+and+Artists+Quizzes/116-Renaissance+Artists.htm

[amykhar]

I ended up going with str_replace and defining the characters that I wanted stripped:

http://www.eaforums.com/forums/quiz/MiscQuizzes/70-AQuizYouHAVEtoLookuptheAnswersFor.htm

[sabret00the]

What about this one? urlencode() I think that puppy may do what I need.

Amy

that's the one i woudl've gone with.