replacing characters

[isedeasy]

I have a function that replaces certain characters with a hyphen

 

function addHyphens($string) {

$chars = array(" ", "&", "_", "/", "\\", "(", ")", "#", "?", "%", "\"","'", ".", ",", ":", ";", "[", "]", "!", "$", "£", "+", "=");
$newstring = str_replace( $chars, '-', $string);

return $newstring;

}

 

at the minute I get

 

echo addHyphens('foo - bar'); // returns foo---bar

echo addHyphens('foo! bar!'); // returns foo--bar-

 

I would like the following to happen

 

echo addHyphens('foo - bar'); // returns foo-bar

echo addHyphens('foo! bar!'); // returns foo-bar

 

What's the best way to go about this?

[Coolkat]

to get both of those to work you'll have to replace all spaces with a - and all other symbols with a nothing..

 

try:

 

function addHyphens($string) {

$chars = array("&", "_", "/", "\\", "(", ")", "#", "?", "%", "\"","'", ".", ",", ":", ";", "[", "]", "!", "$", "£", "+", "=");
$string = str_replace( $chars, '', $string);
$string = str_replace( ' ', '-', $string);

return $string;

}

[isedeasy]

Ah yeah did not think of that. Cheers