How can I convert a node title to a lowercase string with hyphens? [closed]

Question

I need to convert the title of a node, for example, from this

John Doe

to

john-doe

Is there Drupal function for it? (Easier to use than using preg_preplace etc.)

Hi, glad you got an answer but what you're asking has nothing to do with Drupal, and I think keeping this open is going to confuse people as it's entirely a PHP issue. I removed the confusing terminology about "human readable node names" etc, and changed the question only to contain what you're really asking — Clive♦, Nov 28 '13 at 13:32
I don't fully agree with "off-topic". There is drupal_html_class($class) function in core. — milkovsky, Sep 3 '14 at 10:52
I don't think this question is off-topic either. module_load_include('inc', 'pathauto', 'pathauto'); $hyphened = pathauto_cleanstring('John Doe'); — Francisco Luz, Nov 18 '14 at 7:30
not off-topic, Drupal has functions to achieve a lot of things that PHP sucks at. — scor, Sep 11 '15 at 16:31

littledynamo · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-28 13:12:35Z

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If you're just looking for a way to convert the title into a URL friendly machine name, then the following regex will do what you need:

$machine_name = preg_replace('@[^a-z0-9-]+@','-', strtolower($title));

answered Nov 28 '13 at 13:04

littledynamo

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Thank you @littledynamo This is exactly what I needed. Also thank you for making my question clearer. – Boutros AbiChedid Nov 28 '13 at 13:16
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@BoutrosAbiChedid Bear in mind this method will not mimic your pathauto settings - if you change those, to exclude/include a certain character, for example, this method will not keep up-to-date. It's much better to use the API methods (if you're not using Pathauto just ignore this) – Clive♦ Nov 28 '13 at 13:20
@littledynamo I am not using Pathauto so your method is great. Thanks. – Boutros AbiChedid Nov 28 '13 at 13:21
You can also user $name = str_replace(' ', '-', strtolower('John Doe')); – inizio Nov 28 '13 at 14:48
Yeah that will work and is more performant (provided the title doesn't contain any slashes or such like). – littledynamo Nov 28 '13 at 16:16

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-13 12:46:59Z

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If you are on the node template (ie. node.tpl.php), you should have $node->nid available.

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answered Nov 28 '13 at 13:11

Batandwa

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Not sure how this answers the question? $node->nid returns a number, not at all what the OP asked. – user1731 Jun 13 '17 at 12:44

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