PHP Replace All Spaces with Hyphens

PHP replace all spaces with hyphens

Use a regular expression changing multiple spaces or hyphens with one hyphen:

$final = preg_replace('#[ -]+#', '-', $text);

Replacing spaces only between words with a hyphen and remove all other spaces

You could trim the $string first

$string = " Cow jumped over the moon ";
$string_with_dashes = str_replace(' ','-',trim($string));
echo $string_with_dashes;

If you want to reduce multiple spaces between the words you can match 1+ horizontal whitespaces \h+ the replace those with a hyphen.

$string_with_dashes = preg_replace("/\h+/", "-", trim($string));

Strip php variable, replace white spaces with dashes

This function will create an SEO friendly string

function seoUrl($string) {
    //Lower case everything
    $string = strtolower($string);
    //Make alphanumeric (removes all other characters)
    $string = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9_\s-]/", "", $string);
    //Clean up multiple dashes or whitespaces
    $string = preg_replace("/[\s-]+/", " ", $string);
    //Convert whitespaces and underscore to dash
    $string = preg_replace("/[\s_]/", "-", $string);
    return $string;
}

should be fine :)

Replace Dash with Space in PHP

<?php
echo '<div><a href="http://www.envisionforce.com/local/'.$row[website].'-seo-services">'.ucwords(str_replace("-"," ",$row[website])).'</a></div>';

In the above example you can use str_replace() to replace hyphens with spaces to create separate words. Then use ucwords() to capitalize the newly created words.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.ucwords.php

Php make spaces in a word with a dash

Oldschool without regex

$test = "jjfnj 948";
$test = str_replace(" ", "", $test);  // strip all spaces from string
echo substr($test, 0, 3)."-".substr($test, 3);  // isolate first three chars, add hyphen, and concat all characters after the first three

How to replace spaces with dash and remove some characters?

preg_replace will do the job for you:

preg_replace(array('/[\\/:\*\?"<>|\.,;]+/', '/\s/'), array('', '-'), 'Strange string.');

Check out some manuals for help.

Replace space with hyphen in link

You can do it like this if you want:

<a href="/quote/tag/<?php echo str_replace(" ", "-", get_post_meta($post->ID, 'user_submit_customauthor2', true)); ?>">My Link></a>

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