gistfile1.txt

/**
 * Once every few years, a jobbing programmer must commit an act of great evil.
 * 
 * See the following bug for why this massive heap of fail exists.
 * 
 * http://bug.corp.yahoo.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3505022&mark=6#c6
 * 
 */
private function generateUrlByUsingEvil($show)
{
.... Some time later in the method ....


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*/
        $string = strtolower( $string );
        $map = array(
        	'/[àáåâ]/u' => 'a',
        	'/[èéê?ë]/u' => 'e',
        	'/[ìíî]/u' => 'i',
        	'/[òóôø]/u' => 'o',
        	'/[ùú?û]/u' => 'u',
        	'/ç/u' => 'c',
        	'/ñ/u' => 'n',
        	'/[äæ]/u' => 'ae',
        	'/ö/u' => 'oe',
        	'/ü/u' => 'ue',
        	'/Ä/u' => 'ae',
        	'/Ü/u' => 'ue',
        	'/Ö/u' => 'oe',
        	'/ß/u' => 'ss',
        	"/['\"]/ieu" => '',
        	'/[^\w\s-]+/u' => ' ',
        	'/\s+/u' => '-',
        	'/-+/u' => '-'
        );
        $string = preg_replace( array_keys( $map ), array_values( $map ), $string );

}