You know, like myblog.com/posts/donald-e-knuth. Should I do this with the built in parameterize method? What about a plugin? I could imagine a plugin being nice for handling duplicate slugs, etc. Here are some popular Github plugins — does anyone have any experience with them? http://github.com/rsl/stringex/tree/master http://github.com/norman/friendly_id/tree/master Basically it seems like slugs are a totally solved … Read more
So I have searched and browsed through the slug tag on SO and only found two compelling solution: Slugify and Character Transliteration in C# How to convert super- or subscript to normal text in C# Which are but partial solution to the problem. I could manually code this up myself but I’m surprised that there … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 9 years ago. Improve this question Many websites, including this one, add what are apparently called slugs – descriptive but as far as I can tell useless bits of … Read more
I am in search of the best way to “slugify” string what “slug” is, and my current solution is based on this recipe I have changed it a little bit to: s = ‘String to slugify’ slug = unicodedata.normalize(‘NFKD’, s) slug = slug.encode(‘ascii’, ‘ignore’).lower() slug = re.sub(r'[^a-z0-9]+’, ‘-‘, slug).strip(‘-‘) slug = re.sub(r'[-]+’, ‘-‘, slug) Anyone … Read more
I’m working on an app in CodeIgniter, and I’m trying to make a field on a form dynamically generate the URL slug. What I’d like to do is remove the punctuation, convert it to lowercase, and replace the spaces with hyphens. So for example, Shane’s Rib Shack would become shanes-rib-shack. Here’s what I have so … Read more
I want to have a function to create slugs from Unicode strings, e.g. gen_slug(‘Andrés Cortez’) should return andres-cortez. How should I do that? Answer Instead of a lengthy replace, try this one: public static function slugify($text, string $divider = ‘-‘) { // replace non letter or digits by divider $text = preg_replace(‘~[^\pL\d]+~u’, $divider, $text); // … Read more
I am trying to create a SlugField in Django. I created this simple model: from django.db import models class Test(models.Model): q = models.CharField(max_length=30) s = models.SlugField() I then do this: >>> from mysite.books.models import Test >>> t=Test(q=”aa a a a”, s=”b b b b”) >>> t.s ‘b b b b’ >>> t.save() >>> t.s ‘b … Read more
This question already has answers here: Convert string into slug with single-hyphen delimiters only (10 answers) Closed 2 years ago. I am facing an issue with URLs, I want to be able to convert titles that could contain anything and have them stripped of all special characters so they only have letters and numbers and … Read more
What is a good complete regular expression or some other process that would take the title: How do you change a title to be part of the URL like Stack Overflow? and turn it into how-do-you-change-a-title-to-be-part-of-the-url-like-stack-overflow that is used in the SEO-friendly URLs on Stack Overflow? The development environment I am using is Ruby on Rails, … Read more
I have a string that I want to use as a filename, so I want to remove all characters that wouldn’t be allowed in filenames, using Python. I’d rather be strict than otherwise, so let’s say I want to retain only letters, digits, and a small set of other characters like “_-.() “. What’s the … Read more
