Title in url with codeigniter

I think it's best to create another field with the "fight-club" slug. So you will always find the correct result as long as you limit not having 2 records with the same slug.

This solution will work also when you have special characters. Example:

Name: Maximum Temperature

Slug: temperature-maximum or maximum-temperature (if special characters are removed).

Without the "from / to" reference it would be very difficult to find the correct record, since the slug itself has all the characters.

If you simply replace the hyphen with white, it will work in very specific situations and another problem would happen. For example, when the original name of the movie has a hyphen:

Name: Star Wars: The Awakening of Strength

Slug: star-wars-the-awakening-of-forca

If you look for "star wars the awakening of the gallows" in the bank you will not find.

You can use the str_replace () function to remove the hyphens from the slug .

$filme = 'clube-da-luta';
str_replace('-', ' ', $filme);
//Resultado: clube da luta

To format the text, you can use ucfirst () or ucwords () .