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Echo 'clean' acf field that strips all spaces and special characters

  • Hi,

    I’m trying to add a css id to an element that is the same as the value it is given, but stripped from all spaces and special characters.
    So for example if I have a field with a value of “*Title& example” I want it to output something like this: <h3 id=”1-title-example”>Title example</h3>

    Normally this would be simply done by something like this:
    <h3 id" <?php the_field('title'); ?> "><?php the_field>('title'); ?></h3>

    But of course that doesn’t work with outputting clean values (without spaces, etc.).

    Is this possible?

  • Alright, got this fixed myself with using sanitise_title_for_query.
    With some great help from:
    http://zoerooney.com/blog/web-development/custom-fields-flexible-layouts/

    <h3 id="<?php $page_link = sanitize_title_for_query( get_field('title') ); echo esc_attr( $page_link ); ?>"><?php the_field('title');?></h3>

  • Hey @ardblok, thanks for that, however I am unable to strip the accents (French lang) off the field. It looks like this “marquage-int%c3%a9rieur” any ideas on how to clean this? 🙂

    Thanks!

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