A safe path generator from a string (item title) that wont break your router, using regex. In Javascript.

safe-path-generator.js

var pathGen = function(title){
  // replaces all special characters and white spaces with DASH.
  var path = title.replace( /([\s`~!@#$%^&*()_|+=?;:'",.<>\{\}\[\]\\\/])/gi, "-");
  path = path.replace(/([-]{2,})/gi, '-');
  return path;
};

// source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11090301/