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Richard
Richard

Reputation: 289

Regex to turn url into a clean page title

I use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to get this /res/about_us.php, I want the output to be About Us, I know I can use preg_replace for this, it is the regular expression I am struggling with.

I have this pitiful attempt thus far:

echo str_replace('.php', '', $uri);

I realised after this that I cant replace two cases using str_replace... So I thought I need preg_replace with regex, but not a clue how it works, cant seem to find a similar example through Google.

Regards

Upvotes: 2

Views: 129

Answers (2)

hatef
hatef

Reputation: 6199

Actually you can replace multiple cases with str_replace by passing an array of things you'd like to replace as first parameter of the function! Something like this:

echo ucwords(str_replace(array('_', '-', '.php'), ' ', basename($uri)));

Inside the array you could put whatever you'd like to replace.

Upvotes: 0

George Reith
George Reith

Reputation: 13476

Without regular expressions you can do:

// Get the filename, e.g., 'about_us'.
$filename = pathinfo($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PATHINFO_FILENAME);
// Replace underscore with spaces and capitalise words
$title = ucwords(str_replace('_', ' ', $filename));

See pathinfo, ucwords

Upvotes: 1

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