zend framework slug creator for utf8 character

Question

I want to create a SEO friendly url, so after a few research, i come up with creating slug and do something with the router. However, it seems that the slug creator around internet only support english alphabet character. So, i need a better slug creator for my vietnamese alphabet.

Anyone got a plugin, or a suggestion for me?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You could extend an existing Slugifier to normalize the vietnamese characters.

From a similar post in the Django context:

A simple version for you case would be:

vietnamese_map = {
    ord(u'ư'): 'u',
    ord(u'ơ'): 'o',
    ord(u'á'): 'a',
    ord(u'n'): 'n',
    ord(u'h'): 'h',
    ord(u'ữ'): 'u',
    ord(u'n'): 'n',
    ord(u'g'): 'g',
    ord(u'v'): 'v',
    ord(u'i'): 'i',
    ord(u'ê'): 'e',
    ord(u'n'): 'n',
    ord(u'k'): 'k',
    ord(u'ẹ'): 'e',
    ord(u'o'): 'o',
}

And then you can call:

print u"những-viên-kẹo".translate(vietnamese_map) To get:

u"nhung-vien-keo"

But of course you'll need to write that in PHP.

If you don't want to extend the builtin slugifier, Boris Guery's Bgy_Filter_Slugify works well for me:

https://github.com/borisguery/bgylibrary/blob/master/library/Bgy/Filter/Slugify.php

You could also extract the slugification code used by WordPress, if that still isn't robust enough for you.

EDIT:

WordPress code may already handle the conversion of accented characters into their latin equivalent.

Here for example is their remove_accents function.