Remove underscore from segment variable.
How Do I?
I’m using a segment variable to display a title on our website. However, in the URL the segment I’m pulling from sometimes has an underscore. Is there a way I can display the contents of {segment_2} with a space instead of an underscore?
e.g {segment_2} contains: “some_text” but I just want to display “some text” on the website.
You really only have the option for dashes - or underscores _ when it comes to URL segments. You can set this using the word_separator config variable, like $config['word_separator'] = 'dash';
That said, even if you COULD use spaces as a separator, there isn’t a single browser on the planet that would allow that, since a space isn’t a valid URL character; instead, every browser will convert every space to the encoded value of %20. So a URL like /my/url title with spaces would be converted to /my/url%20title%20with%20spaces instead.
I’m sorry if that wasn’t clear. The URL has the underscore in it. I don’t want to create a new URL. I want to pull {segment_2} FROM the URL and display it on the website.
<html opening tag>{segment_2}</html closing tag>
But when I do that, I get something that looks like this:
My_Webpage_Title
But I want it to look like this:
My Webpage Title
Again, this has nothing to do with the url itself having spaces. That’s not what I’m going for.
Oh! Missed that. You can use the replace variable modifier, like so:
{segment_2:replace find='_' replace=' '}
The docs have more details if you’re curious
Amazing! Thank you! That did the trick.
Also, thank you for the docs link. I had browsed through them, but didn’t know where to look either. I’ll be sure to review your link on that. Seems like that replace function could be super powerful!
