this function

PHP Code:

    function skipURL($string){
        $string = preg_replace("`\[.*\]`U","",$string);
        $string = preg_replace('`&(amp;)?#?[a-z0-9]+;`i','-',$string);
        $string = htmlentities($string, ENT_COMPAT, 'utf-8');
        $string = preg_replace( "`&([a-z])(acute|uml|circ|grave|ring|cedil|slash|tilde|caron|lig|quot|rsquo);`i","\\1", $string );
        $string = preg_replace( array("`[^a-z0-9]`i","`[-]+`") , "-", $string);
        return strtolower(trim($string, '-'));
    } 


this works like what i need.

but im haveing a problem this function works good with english language but what if there is any kind of other language

like arabic for examble

if i have this string with english

LOREM _ DolOr :^*(

the function going to make like that

lorem-dolor

but what if there a string like that

english :: عربى

it's going to be like that

english

i just want it to be like that

english-عربى

so please if anyone can help me with this

thanks

any ideas

try using multibyte functions. it seem there is no multibyte version for preg_replace. but there is one for ereg_replace

http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio...eg-replace.php