This is a function that checks a string and makes it work nicely for friendly urls
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// Make sure a url string is nicely formatted
function makeSafeUrl($myUrl, $allowSpace=0, $allowCase=0){
$sSafe = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890-_';
$disallowed = array();
$disallowed['c'] = 'ç';
$disallowed['n'] = 'ñ';
$disallowed['y'] = 'ýÿ';
$disallowed['e'] = 'èéêë';
$disallowed['a'] = 'àáâãäå';
$disallowed['o'] = 'ðóòôõöø';
$disallowed['u'] = 'ùúûü';
$disallowed['i'] = 'ìíîï';
if(!$allowSpace) $disallowed['-'] = ' ';
if($allowSpace) $sSafe .= ' ';
if($allowCase){
$sSafe .= 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
$disallowed['C'] = 'Ç';
$disallowed['N'] = 'Ñ';
$disallowed['Y'] = 'ÝŸ';
$disallowed['E'] = 'ÈÉÊË';
$disallowed['A'] = 'ÀÁÂÃÄÅ';
$disallowed['O'] = 'ÐÓÒÔÕÖØ';
$disallowed['U'] = 'ÙÚÛÜ';
$disallowed['I'] = 'ÌÍÎÏ';
}else{
$myUrl = strtolower($myUrl);
}
$newString = array();
for($i = 0; $i $var){
if(stristr($var, $thisChar)){
$newString[$i] = $key;
}
}
}
}
return implode('', $newString);
}