Laravel String Helper Function: slug

The slug helper method will format the given $title to resemble a URI slug. It does this through a series of steps:

• Convert the $title to ASCII formatting (using the ascii function);
• Converts whitespace, dashes, underscores to the $separator;
• Reduces whitespace and separators to a single character, and trims the whitespace and separators from the beginning and end of the string.

The signature for the slug helper method is:

slug($title, $separator = '-')

This function will also convert the entire string to its lower cased alternative.

 1use Illuminate\Support\Str;
 2 
 3// laravel-ninja
 4echo Str::slug('laravel ninja');
 5 
 6// laravel-ninja
 7echo Str::slug(' laravel ninja ');
 8 
 9// laravel-nin-ja
10echo Str::slug('  Laravel NIN JA  ');
11 
12// laravel-ninja
13echo Str::slug('Laravel - Ninja - ');
14 
15// laravel-ninja
16echo Str::slug('Laravel-_-_Ninja - ');

#str_slug($title, $separator = '_')

The str_slug function is a shortcut to calling Str::slug. This function is declared in the global namespace.

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