urlFriendly.js

[jnbdz]

/*

---
description: Clean a string to make it friendly for the URL.

license: MIT-style

authors:
- Jean-Nicolas Boulay Desjardins (http://jean-nicolas.name/)

requires:
 core/1.2.1:   '*'

provides:
- urlFriendly

...
*/

var urlFriendly = new Class({

    initialize: function(val){

        this.val = val;

    },

            escape: function(){

                    return escape(this.val);
            },

            humanReadable: function(){

                    return this.val
                    .toLowerCase()
                    .replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "") // trim leading and trailing spaces
                    .replace(/[_|\s]+/g, "-") // change all spaces and underscores to a hyphen
                    .replace(/[^a-z0-9-]+/g, "") // remove all non-alphanumeric characters except the hyphen
                    .replace(/[-]+/g, "-") // replace multiple instances of the hyphen with a single instance
                    .replace(/^-+|-+$/g, ""); // trim leading and trailing hyphens
            }

    });