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Morpheus NS

06-20-2011 09:51 AM

Removing accented UTF8 characters from URL

Hello, everyone! I am using .htaccess to make my links simpler, but there is a problem.

My forum is in serbian, and I have a problem because my thread names sometimes contain accented letters (š, ć, đ, etc.). Those letters look different in URLs, or doesn't show at all. I am trying to replace them with non-accented letters (s, c, dj in this case) which are easily readable in my language. I got this code:

Code:

function google($input){

    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.UTF8");

    $input = str_replace(array("'", "-", "đ"), array("", "", "dj"), $input);

    $input = mb_convert_case($input, MB_CASE_LOWER, "UTF-8");

    $input = iconv("UTF-8", "ASCII//TRANSLIT", $input);

    $input = preg_replace("#[^a-zA-Z0-9]+#", "-", $input);

    $input = preg_replace("#(-){2,}#", "$1", $input);

    $input = trim($input, "-");

    return $input;

}

which should do the trick for me, but I don't know where (in which file) do I have to put this code to work. Any idea? I am using vBulletin 4.1.1

LifesGreatestGift

06-21-2011 11:08 PM

probably a file that has to do with creating new threads ;)

Morpheus NS

06-25-2011 01:42 PM

class_friendly_url.php seems to be doing that part of the job. :) If I am right, where do you think I should put this code?

Videx

06-26-2011 12:49 AM

I'm willing to bet this has been done before so you really shouldn't need to write code for it. I mean. vb has been international for years, so you can't be the first person with the problem.

Have you searched at vb.com?

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