PHP Convert String to SEO Friendly Url For Bengali Language Type-CodePudding

I am trying to convert string to seo friendly url. For this I have written below code and set the table column collation type to utf8_general_ci It is working for English but not working for Bengali Language. Just outputting single hypen(-) for bengali string

 function seo_url( $string, $separator = '-' )
 {
   $accents_regex = '~&([a-z]{1,2})(?:acute|cedil|circ|grave|lig|orn|ring|slash|th|tilde|uml);~i';
   $special_cases = array( '&' => 'and', "'" => '');
   $string = mb_strtolower( trim( $string ), 'UTF-8' );
   $string = str_replace( array_keys($special_cases), array_values( $special_cases), $string );
   $string = preg_replace( $accents_regex, '$1', htmlentities( $string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8' ) );
   $string = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9]/u", "$separator", $string);
   $string = preg_replace("/[$separator] /u", "$separator", $string);
   return $string;
 }

Is there any solution for unicode like bengali language for the same

CodePudding user response：

To accept glyph in Bengali (or any other language) you have to change the regex on this line :

 $string = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9]/u", "$separator", $string);

Currently, it means "change any character wich in not a letter or a number by a -". By another regex asking "change any character wich is not a letter or a number in any language" :

$string = preg_replace("/[^\p{L}\p{M}]/u", "$separator", $string);

Changing this line, your function will work fine ! More information and related anwser here : https://stackoverflow.com/a/6005511/15282066