String sanitizer for filename

file.php

public static function normalizeString ($str = '')
{
    $str = strip_tags($str); 
    $str = preg_replace('/[\r\n\t ]+/', ' ', $str);
    $str = preg_replace('/[\"\*\/\:\<\>\?\'\|]+/', ' ', $str);
    $str = strtolower($str);
    $str = html_entity_decode( $str, ENT_QUOTES, "utf-8" );
    $str = htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES, "utf-8");
    $str = preg_replace("/(&)([a-z])([a-z]+;)/i", '$2', $str);
    $str = str_replace(' ', '-', $str);
    $str = rawurlencode($str);
    $str = str_replace('%', '-', $str);
    return $str;
}