I creating seo friendly url permalinks , I have words like below which contains extra spaces , symbols etc.
INPUT examples:
software version 1.2.33 !##$%@~_+:";,|}{[];,;#&*^{2014}
Вася Обломов - Многоходовочка! (2014) MP3 [bitsnoop]
Дельфин - Андрей $$ (2014) MP3 [bitsnoop]
Laidback Luke & Uberjak'd – Go (Original Mix) [Hysteria] [bitsnoop]
Bob Dylan - Down In The Groove [320k MP3] [bitsnoop]
Desired OUTPUT:
software version 1.2.33
Вася Обломов Многоходовочка MP3
Дельфин Андрей MP3
Laidback Luke Uberjakd Go
Bob Dylan Down In The Groove
What i Tried :
$string = "ABC (Test1) hello$";
$string = preg_replace("/\([^)]+\)/","",$string); // 'ABC hello$'
$string = preg_replace("/[^ \w]+/", "", $string);
So in simple words i need to remove everthing inside brackets like {}[]()
,and remove all symbols except . (dot)
.
P.s : this contains utf8 encoded strings aswel