Hi perlmonks

After writing a blog post and publishing it, WordPress transforms the given title to a permalink.

Title: "Test title"
Permalink: http://blogname.com/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/test-title

WordPress does some magic to transform the given title (strips out certain characters, replaces others, ...). I checked the WordPress source code, but all I could find was a function called sanitize_title within wp_includes/formatting.php (I'm not good at PHP) 
function sanitize_title($title, $fallback_title = '') {
    $title = strip_tags($title);
    $title = apply_filters('sanitize_title', $title);

    if ( '' === $title || false === $title )
        $title = $fallback_title;

    return $title;
}

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I want to write a script that supports me in writing a blog post offline by generating some html code which I could paste easily in the online editor later.

The thing is, I need the "sanitized title" within some URLs within the generated html code. So Perl has to sanitize the given title in the same way as WordPress to generate valid urls.

I've searched google and Super Search but couldn't find anything useful. Has anybody already written a perl version of "sanitize_title" or a clue where WordPress does its magic to convert a user given title to its final form?

My goal would be a function which I can pass my title to and which returns the sanitized title.

Cheers Klammer

In reply to WordPress 'sanitize_title' by Klammer

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