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A PHP snippet to create a url slug filtering symbols and making url friendly phrases.

function slug($string)
{
$string= strtolower(trim($string));
$string= preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-]/', '-', $string);
$string= preg_replace('/-+/', "-", $string);
return $string;
}

// Input
$title = "Snippet: Create a url slug";
echo slug($title);

// Output
// snippet-create-a-url-slug

Happy Slugging