How can I replace ":" with "/" in slugify function? - php

Question

I have a function which slugifies the text, it works well except that I need to replace ":" with "/". Currently it replaces all non-letter or digits with "-". Here it is :
function slugify($text)
{
// replace non letter or digits by -
$text = preg_replace('~[^\\pL\d]+~u', '-', $text);
// trim
$text = trim($text, '-');
// transliterate
if (function_exists('iconv'))
{
$text = iconv('utf-8', 'us-ascii//TRANSLIT', $text);
}
// lowercase
$text = strtolower($text);
// remove unwanted characters
$text = preg_replace('~[^-\w]+~', '', $text);
if (empty($text))
{
return 'n-a';
}
return $text;
}

Answer 1

I made just a couple modifications. I provided a search/replace set of arrays to let us replace most everything with -, but replace : with /:
$search = array( '~[^\\pL\d:]+~u', '~:~' );
$replace = array( '-', '/' );
$text = preg_replace( $search, $replace, $text);
And later on, this last preg_replace was replacing our / with an empty string. So I permited foward slashes in the character class.
$text = preg_replace('~[^-\w\/]+~', '', $text);
Which outputs the following:
// antiques/antiquities
echo slugify( "Antiques:Antiquities" );