URLify for PHP 
A PHP port of URLify.js
from the Django project. Handles symbols from Latin languages as well as Arabic, Azerbaijani, Czech, German, Greek, Kazakh,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Slovak. Symbols it cannot
transliterate it will simply omit.
Installation
Install the latest version with:
$ composer require jbroadway/urlify
Usage
To generate slugs for URLs:
<?php
echo URLify::filter (' J\'étudie le français ');
// "jetudie-le-francais"
echo URLify::filter ('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "lo-siento-no-hablo-espanol"
To generate slugs for file names:
<?php
echo URLify::filter ('фото.jpg', 60, "", true);
// "foto.jpg"
To simply transliterate characters:
<?php
echo URLify::downcode ('J\'étudie le français');
// "J'etudie le francais"
echo URLify::downcode ('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "Lo siento, no hablo espanol."
/* Or use transliterate() alias: */
echo URLify::transliterate ('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "Lo siento, no hablo espanol."
To extend the character list:
<?php
URLify::add_chars ([
'¿' => '?', '®' => '(r)', '¼' => '1/4',
'½' => '1/2', '¾' => '3/4', '¶' => 'P'
]);
echo URLify::downcode ('¿ ® ¼ ¼ ¾ ¶');
// "? (r) 1/2 1/2 3/4 P"
To extend the list of words to remove:
<?php
URLify::remove_words (['remove', 'these', 'too']);
To prioritize a certain language map:
<?php
echo URLify::filter ('Ägypten und Österreich besitzen wie üblich ein Übermaß an ähnlich öligen Attachés', 60, 'de');
// "aegypten-und-oesterreich-besitzen-wie-ueblich-ein-uebermass-aehnlich-oeligen-attaches"
echo URLify::filter ('Cağaloğlu, çalıştığı, müjde, lazım, mahkûm', 60, 'tr');
// "cagaloglu-calistigi-mujde-lazim-mahkum"
Please note that the "ü" is transliterated to "ue" in the first case, whereas it results in a simple "u" in the latter.