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My friendly url does not work (page is not found) if the user has a comma or any symbol in their name.

Thread begun 3/17/2022 7:09 am by jo271221 | Last modified 1/23/2023 6:11 pm by Ray Borduin | 289 views | 2 replies |

3/17/2022 7:09 am | #1 jo271221

My friendly url does not work (page is not found) if the user has a comma or any symbol in their name.

More details in PM
I think I resolved by revising my replace code from
str_replace(' ', '-', trim
to
str_replace(' ', '-',',','&', trim

Is this logical and should work whenever a space, comma or ampersand exists?

3/18/2022 6:44 am | #2 Ray BorduinWebAssist

I think I'd replace:
str_replace(' ', '-', trim

with:
preg_replace('/[ \,&]/', '-', trim

Did this help? Tips are appreciated...

3/18/2022 7:23 am | #3 jo271221

Awesome! So much cleaner.
Thank you!!!

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