Replace underscore in URL with a hyphen

[rebel]

using Pligg 9.5 i am able to get stage one working fine, replacing the underscore in libs/utils.php file in line 243.

$output = preg_replace("/\s/e" , "_" , $output); with a "-" hyphen.

however, when submitting new stories the "link_url_title" field in the links table is not updated.

any ideas?

where should i be looking and what files should i be looking at to fix this?

[rebel]

anyone with an idea on this please?

[Simon]

How about - in the same function you referened above, makeUrlFriendly() - adding a line like this to the end of the function:

$output = str_replace("_", "-", $output);

You might also want to replace any resulting double dashes with a single dash.

[rebel]

that did the trick - thanks Simon

[P1mpPanther]

Just to clarify for those reading this thread from the top - ONLY add Simons bit of code (not the code in the first post) to get this to work.

[wanderingmind]

Is this something I can do once and forget it, or will this need to be repeated in some other way with every release of pligg?

thanks

[P1mpPanther]

Hmm, not sure what files are going to be changing in the next version of Pligg (perhaps someone can answer that directly) but it's probably good practice to keep a log of what files you modify just in case.

[wanderingmind]

Is that possible - to maintain the integrity of the new version while keeping the old libs/util.php?

Sorry for the questions - I am not a programmer and has to follow suggestions blindly without knowing its consequences, hence the pestering