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URL Friendly Username in PHP?

Asked 2010-01-20T18:14:18.303
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On my PHP site, currently users login with an email address and a password. I would like to add a username as well, this username they g\set will be unique and they cannot change it. I am wondering how I can make this name have no spaces in it and work in a URL so I can use there username to link to there profiles and other stuff. If there is a space in there username then it should add an underscore jason_davis. I am not sure the best way to do this?

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In other words... you need to create a username slug. Doctrine (ORM for PHP) has a nice function to do it. Doctrine_Inflector::urlize()

EDIT: You should also keep username slug in database, as a Unique Key column. Then every search operation should be done based on that column, not original username.

answered 2010-01-20T18:18:51.697

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