Hello all,

I like to use COOL (nice) URIs, example: http://example.com/try-something
I'm using UTF8 as input, so I have to write a function UTF8toASCII to have nice URI. Here is what I come with:

<?php
function urlize($url) {
 $search = array('/[^a-z0-9]/', '/--+/', '/^-+/', '/-+$/' );
 $replace = array( '-', '-', '', '');
 return preg_replace($search, $replace, utf2ascii($url));
}     

function utf2ascii($string) {
 $iso88591  = "\\xE0\\xE1\\xE2\\xE3\\xE4\\xE5\\xE6\\xE7";
 $iso88591 .= "\\xE8\\xE9\\xEA\\xEB\\xEC\\xED\\xEE\\xEF";
 $iso88591 .= "\\xF0\\xF1\\xF2\\xF3\\xF4\\xF5\\xF6\\xF7";
 $iso88591 .= "\\xF8\\xF9\\xFA\\xFB\\xFC\\xFD\\xFE\\xFF";
 $ascii = "aaaaaaaceeeeiiiidnooooooouuuuyyy";
 return strtr(mb_strtolower(utf8_decode($string), 'ISO-8859-1'),$iso88591,$ascii);
}

echo urlize("Fucking ?m?l");

?>

I hope this helps someone.