The use of mod_rewrite on a site can have a powerful effect on search engine positioning, but to do it properly you will need to create a "slug" for each page. A slug is a lowercase alphanumeric version of the page title, with any spaces removed.
To get a slug you will need to use a function to turn a readable page title into a string that can be used as part of a URI.
This function is taken from Bramus and his excellent article about creating a post slug, and it does the job very nicely.
function fixForUri($string){
$slug = trim($string); // trim the string
$slug= preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9 -]/','',$slug ); // only take alphanumerical characters, but keep the spaces and dashes too...
$slug= str_replace(' ','-', $slug); // replace spaces by dashes
$slug= strtolower($slug); // make it lowercase
return $slug;
}To use the function just pass your page title (and it can be as messy as you like) into the function and capture the output.
$string = '"I\'ve got a lovely *bunch* of coconuts!"';
echo fixForUri($string);UPDATE:
I recently found a bug in this function where any trailing spaces where converted into hyphens and used as part of the slug. To stop this I have added a call to trim() in order to prevent this from happening.
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nice explaination
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