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Created January 21, 2014 13:34
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  1. boffey created this gist Jan 21, 2014.
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    function parameterize($string, $sep = '-') {

    # Get rid of anything thats not a valid letter, number, dash and underscore and
    # replace with a dash
    $paramterized_string = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9\-_]/i", $sep, $string);

    # Remove connected dahses so we don't end up with -- anyhwere.
    $paramterized_string = preg_replace("/$sep{2,}/", $sep, $paramterized_string);
    # Remove any trailing spaces from the string
    $paramterized_string = preg_replace("/^$sep|$sep$/", '', $paramterized_string);
    # Downcase the string
    return strtolower($paramterized_string);
    }