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rny/slugutf8
============

generate UTF-8 URL slug

1.0.1(9y ago)1191MITPHP

Since Oct 28Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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SlugUtf8
========

[](#slugutf8)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/1bd27edb5ee29ced138c4fb2f6920b696cd2118b9cf8e10fd481425d69dcf3cf/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f726e792f536c7567557466382e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/rny/SlugUtf8)

SlugUtf8 is a simple library to generate friendly URL slug from a UTF-8 string. It keeps most of the UTF-8 charaters unchanged to better support Chinese/Japanese. SlugUtf8 is modified from

Highlights
----------

[](#highlights)

- Removes all special characters but keeps UTF-8 charaters unchanged.
- Support Chinese / Japanese.
- Dot between numbers is unchanged, e.g. 3.8.5
- Composer ready, PSR-4 compatible.
- PHPUnit tested.

Install
-------

[](#install)

Install `SlugUtf8` using Composer.

```
$ composer require rny/slugutf8

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use Rny\SlugUtf8\SlugUtf8;

$slug = SlugUtf8::SlugUtf8($str);

```

```
$slug = \Rny\SlugUtf8\SlugUtf8::SlugUtf8($str);

```

```
$options = array(
    'delimiter' => '-',
    'limit' => null,
    'lowercase' => true,
    'replacements' => array(),
    'transliterate' => false,
    'strip_non_utf8' => false,
);
$slug = \Rny\SlugUtf8\SlugUtf8::SlugUtf8($str, $options);

```

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

```
$ composer test

```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 57% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

3531d ago

Major Versions

0.9.0 → 1.0.02016-10-28

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

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