/**
* Generates a permalink given a string
*
* @since 5.0
* @access public
* @param string
* @return
*/
public static function normalizePermalink($string)
{
$config = EB::config();
$permalink = '';
if (EBR::isSefEnabled() && $config->get('main_sef_unicode')) {
$permalink = JFilterOutput::stringURLUnicodeSlug($string);
return $permalink;
}
// Replace accents to get accurate string
$string = EBR::replaceAccents($string);
// no unicode supported.
$permalink = JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe($string);
// check if anything return or not. If not, then we give a date as the alias.
if (trim(str_replace('-', '', $permalink)) == '') {
$date = EB::date();
$permalink = $date->format("%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S");
}
return $permalink;
}
