URLify PHP port for Laravel4

A PHP port of URLify.js from the Django project. Handles symbols from Latin languages, Czech, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian. Symbols it cannot transliterate it will simply omit.

• Author: jbroadway
• License: MIT

Install:

• Add "require": { "mascame/urlify": "dev-master" } to composer.json

• Run composer update

• Add to app/config at the bottom of Providers:

'Mascame\Urlify\UrlifyServiceProvider'

Usage:

To generate slugs for URLs:

<?php

echo Mascame\Urlify::filter (' J\'étudie le français ');
// "jetudie-le-francais"

echo Mascame\Urlify::filter ('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "lo-siento-no-hablo-espanol"

?>

To simply transliterate characters:

<?php

echo Mascame\Urlify::downcode ('J\'étudie le français');
// "J'etudie le francais"

echo Mascame\Urlify::downcode ('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "Lo siento, no hablo espanol."

/* Or use transliterate() alias: */

echo Mascame\Urlify::transliterate ('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "Lo siento, no hablo espanol."

?>

To extend the character list:

<?php

Mascame\Urlify::add_chars (array (
	'¿' => '?', '®' => '(r)', '¼' => '1/4',
	'¼' => '1/2', '¾' => '3/4', '¶' => 'P'
));

echo Mascame\Urlify::downcode ('¿ ® ¼ ¼ ¾ ¶');
// "? (r) 1/2 1/2 3/4 P"

?>

To extend the list of words to remove:

<?php

Mascame\Urlify::remove_words (array ('remove', 'these', 'too'));

?>

To priorize a certain language map:

<?php

echo Mascame\Urlify::filter (' Ägypten und Österreich besitzen wie üblich ein Übermaß an ähnlich öligen Attachés ',60,"de");
// "aegypten-und-oesterreich-besitzen-wie-ueblich-ein-uebermass-aehnlich-oeligen-attaches"
   
echo Mascame\Urlify::filter ('Cağaloğlu, çalıştığı, müjde, lazım, mahkûm',60,"tr");
// "cagaloglu-calistigi-mujde-lazim-mahkum"

?>

Please note that the "ü" is transliterated to "ue" in the first case, whereas it results in a simple "u" in the latter.