Comments on: Converting a string to slug with JavaScript http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/ How am I supposed to know?? Ask Pipo! Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:56:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Flavia http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/#comment-12582 Flavia Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:52:15 +0000 http://dense13.com/?p=72#comment-12582 Thank you so much for this, I was going mad to achieve exactly this result in sanitizing a string (but didn't succeed of course...). You saved my day :) Muchissimas gracias!! Flavia Thank you so much for this, I was going mad to achieve exactly this
result in sanitizing a string (but didn't succeed of course...).
You saved my day :) Muchissimas gracias!! Flavia

]]> By: Wiseman http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/#comment-11987 Wiseman Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:13:10 +0000 http://dense13.com/?p=72#comment-11987 Thanks a lot! Nice snippet Thanks a lot! Nice snippet

]]> By: dense13 http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/#comment-3975 dense13 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:03:51 +0000 http://dense13.com/?p=72#comment-3975 @DOgi: sorry, the polish characters got all messed up. Feel free to email me (blog AT dense13 DOT com), and I'll fix it. Edit: Mmh, not easy, I can't just add them here, some of the characters you sent still get ignored (not sure if it's a WordPress or a browser issue). I'll try to sort that out. @DOgi: sorry, the polish characters got all messed up. Feel free to email me (blog AT dense13 DOT com), and I'll fix it.

Edit: Mmh, not easy, I can't just add them here, some of the characters you sent still get ignored (not sure if it's a WordPress or a browser issue). I'll try to sort that out.

]]> By: DOgi http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/#comment-3961 DOgi Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:25:35 +0000 http://dense13.com/?p=72#comment-3961 Polish language support added: <code>var from = "àáäâèéëêìíïîòóöôùúüûñç·/_,:;??????ó??"; var to = "aaaaeeeeiiiioooouuuunc------aceslnozz";</code> Polish language support added: var from =
"àáäâèéëêìíïîòóöôùúüûñç·/_,:;??????ó??"; var to =
"aaaaeeeeiiiioooouuuunc------aceslnozz";

]]> By: dense13 http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/#comment-1905 dense13 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:02:47 +0000 http://dense13.com/?p=72#comment-1905 @Paulius: found it! The problem wasn't the RegExp, but the square bracket notation for strings. Now it works, with: <code>str = str.replace(new RegExp(from.charAt(i), 'g'), to.charAt(i));</code> Maybe you were already suggesting that, since your comment got cut half-way through. @Paulius: found it! The problem wasn't the RegExp, but the square bracket notation for strings. Now it works, with:

str = str.replace(new RegExp(from.charAt(i), 'g'), to.charAt(i));

Maybe you were already suggesting that, since your comment got cut half-way through.

]]> By: dense13 http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/#comment-1900 dense13 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:23:52 +0000 http://dense13.com/?p=72#comment-1900 @Paulius: in fact it crashes both IE6 and IE7 (but not IE8). Here's the code I'm using: <code>slug = slug.replace(new RegExp(from[i], 'g'), to[i]);</code> Maybe there is a more efficient way to do this? Is this definitely an IE bug? Btw, sorry for the lack of proper formatting in comments, I know it's annoying. It works well when I post comments though, another thing to look at... @Paulius: in fact it crashes both IE6 and IE7 (but not IE8). Here's the code I'm using:

slug = slug.replace(new RegExp(from[i], 'g'), to[i]);

Maybe there is a more efficient way to do this? Is this definitely an IE bug?

Btw, sorry for the lack of proper formatting in comments, I know it's annoying. It works well when I post comments though, another thing to look at...

]]> By: dense13 http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/#comment-1899 dense13 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:07:53 +0000 http://dense13.com/?p=72#comment-1899 @Paulius: you're absolutely right, gotta fix that. The problem is that using a RegExp crashes IE6 (see comment 6 - it was a good reason after all). @Paulius: you're absolutely right, gotta fix that. The problem is that using a RegExp crashes IE6 (see comment 6 - it was a good reason after all).

]]> By: Paulius http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/#comment-1888 Paulius Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:30:32 +0000 http://dense13.com/?p=72#comment-1888 This script does not replace repetitive non-latin letters, i.e.: xxxààà wil become xxxa because of str.replace behaviour You should use RegExp object to replace these strings globally: for (var i=0, l=from.length ; i This script does not replace repetitive non-latin letters, i.e.:
xxxààà wil become xxxa because of str.replace behaviour You should
use RegExp object to replace these strings globally: for (var i=0,
l=from.length ; i

]]> By: dense13 http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/#comment-944 dense13 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:40:18 +0000 http://dense13.com/?p=72#comment-944 Hey, thanks to myself for writing this, now I can reuse it in my current Rails project. :) Hey, thanks to myself for writing this, now I can reuse it in my current Rails project. :)

]]> By: dense13 http://dense13.com/blog/2009/05/03/converting-string-to-slug-javascript/#comment-937 dense13 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:54:05 +0000 http://dense13.com/?p=72#comment-937 @Thomas Lopes: actually, you can't do that, it will crash IE6/7 (see comment #2 by David Prek). In fact that was my first version of the script, but later got rid of the regular expression (see comment #6, btw thanks to Pat Allan for the fix). Another consideration is that Regexp replacement might be less efficient (although in this case that probably wouldn't be a problem, this is not likely to be a function that's executed repeatedly). But your comment made think about the function, and I've made it a bit more compact (post has been updated): now it doesn't need to replace upper and lower case characters. @Thomas Lopes: actually, you can't do that, it will crash IE6/7 (see comment #2 by David Prek). In fact that was my first version of the script, but later got rid of the regular expression (see comment #6, btw thanks to Pat Allan for the fix). Another consideration is that Regexp replacement might be less efficient (although in this case that probably wouldn't be a problem, this is not likely to be a function that's executed repeatedly).

But your comment made think about the function, and I've made it a bit more compact (post has been updated): now it doesn't need to replace upper and lower case characters.

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