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    <p>I'm new here I and need your help. I started playing with .htaccess and php and I came across a problem. When doing url rewriting, I pass into the url a string which is the title of an article extracted from the database. The problem is that the string(title) has a lot of characters who in the url are misspelled. EG: localhost/news/php%5%is%out Here % are the blank spaces. I tried to format every title with preg_replace and I replaced every space with '-' but there are a lot of characters and I wanted to know if there is any way of doing this without preg_replace so any string can be good for a query. In news.php I get the string from the url and I use it for the query in the database from which I extract the body of the entire article. </p> <pre><code>RewriteRule ^news/([a-zA-Z0-9._]+)/?$ /news.php?news_title=$1 </code></pre> <p>This is my .htaccess file so in the news.php i get the 'news_title' variable through $_GET and then query the database to find the articol with this title. So my question is, am I doing this all wrong? Is there any other way of doing this? I started working with htaccess only 2 days ago and I want to make my urls more friendly. I hope my question is clear. Thank everyone who helps me.</p> <p>Just for an example, this is what I use to transform the normal tile in a string that won't be change with symbols(;amp, %, ?, etc) in the url</p> <pre><code>function generateUrl($url) { $v1 = preg_replace("/[\s\:\;\,\_\'\`\"\?\!\%\(\)\+\=\#\@\[\]\{\}\/]/", "-", $url ); $v2= preg_replace('/[-]{2,}/', '-', $v1); $v3 = preg_replace('/^[-]/', '', $v2); $final = preg_replace('/[-]$/', '', $v3); return $final; } </code></pre>
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    1. COThe only thing in that character class that actually needs to be escaped is `/`. Personally I prefer to do this: `$urlSlug = trim(preg_replace('/[\W_]+/', '-', $urlSlug), '-');` so that any sequence of non-alphanum characters becomes a single `-`
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