Strip php variable, replace white spaces with dashes

Question

How can I convert a PHP variable from \"My company & My Name\" to \"my-company-my-name\"?

I need to make it all lowercase, remove all special characters and repl

Answer 1

Replacing specific characters: http://se.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

Example:

function replaceAll($text) { 
    $text = strtolower(htmlentities($text)); 
    $text = str_replace(get_html_translation_table(), "-", $text);
    $text = str_replace(" ", "-", $text);
    $text = preg_replace("/[-]+/i", "-", $text);
    return $text;
}