/**
* Converts a string to a normalized (no-spaces, non-letters) string
*
* @param string $subject original string
* @return string normalized string
*/
public static function normalize($region)
{
// this is influenced by the setlocale() call with category LC_CTYPE; see PopulateDatabases.php
$normalized = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $region);
$normalized = Parser::strtolower($normalized);
$normalized = str_replace("&", "", $normalized);
$normalized = str_replace("'", "", $normalized);
$normalized = str_replace("+", "-", $normalized);
$normalized = str_replace(" ", "-", $normalized);
$normalized = Parser::preg_replace('/\\W/', "-", $normalized);
while (strstr($normalized, "--")) {
$normalized = str_replace("--", "-", $normalized);
}
return $normalized;
}
/**
* Create a normalize category name (lowercase, just alpha and dashes)
* from supplied name
*
* @param string $name [optional] will otherwise use name property
*/
public function setNormalizedFromName($name = null)
{
if ($name == null) {
$name = $this->name;
}
// convert accented character and the like to just ascii equivalent
// this is influenced by the setlocale() call with category LC_CTYPE
$this->normalized = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $name);
$this->normalized = Parser::strtolower($this->normalized);
// strip out weird characters
$this->normalized = str_replace("&", "", $this->normalized);
$this->normalized = str_replace("'", "", $this->normalized);
// convert these to dashes
$this->normalized = str_replace("+", "-", $this->normalized);
$this->normalized = str_replace(" ", "-", $this->normalized);
// now any other non-word character to a dash
$this->normalized = Parser::preg_replace('/\\W/', "-", $this->normalized);
// pair multiple dashes down to one
while (strstr($this->normalized, "--")) {
$this->normalized = str_replace("--", "-", $this->normalized);
}
return $this;
}
