Jesse Forrest

This function converts strings into a format that can be used in URLs. For example, the string “Mike’s Karate School” would be returned as “mikes-karate-school”. This function is recommended to be used on non-multibyte character sets. So this is not recommended for UTF-8, since certain PHP functions (like strtolower) should not be used on multibyte strings.

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/**
 * Returns a string in a URL friendly format.
 * @param string $str The input string.
 * @return string The URL friendly string.
 */
public static function getUrlFriendlyString($str)
{
   // convert spaces to '-', remove characters that are not alphanumeric
   // or a '-', combine multiple dashes (i.e., '---') into one dash '-'.
   $str = ereg_replace("[-]+", "-", ereg_replace("[^a-z0-9-]", "",
      strtolower( str_replace(" ", "-", $str) ) ) );
   return $str;
}

In 2011, Joimo took a big leap and started offering a variety of different sports and recreational activities.  I’m happy to say that we now offer bowling, dodgeball, indoor soccer, outdoor soccer,  and kickball!

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