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Posted by ROHIT SINGLA
ROHIT SINGLA
Courses Plus Student 708 Points

How to automatically create seo friendly php-slugs like wordpress for my blog?

Hi How can I automatically create seo friendly php-slugs like wordpress for my blog and Later on after creating them, how will I be able to fetch the data from the database?

1 Answer

Petros Sordinas
Petros Sordinas
16,181 Points
Petros Sordinas
Petros Sordinas
16,181 Points

Hi Rohit,

I suppose your blog posts have title, therefore you can create a slug out of the title automatically. However, slugs must have url-friendly characters so you must pass the value to a 'slugify' (or whatever else you want to call it function). See this thread in stackoverflow for a function example (1st reply) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2955251/php-function-to-make-slug-url-string

Once you have the slug, you will save it as a field on your posts table in your db. If your blog now retrieves posts by an id or some other key, you will have to modify your code to search for the slug.

ROHIT SINGLA
ROHIT SINGLA
Courses Plus Student 708 Points

Thank You. I got my answer.