summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html')
-rw-r--r--user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html560
1 files changed, 280 insertions, 280 deletions
diff --git a/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html b/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html
index dcf020821..53fde2c3a 100644
--- a/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html
+++ b/user_guide/helpers/url_helper.html
@@ -1,281 +1,281 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
-<head>
-
-<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
-<title>URL Helper : CodeIgniter User Guide</title>
-
-<style type='text/css' media='all'>@import url('../userguide.css');</style>
-<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='../userguide.css' />
-
-<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/nav.js"></script>
-<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/prototype.lite.js"></script>
-<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/moo.fx.js"></script>
-<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/user_guide_menu.js"></script>
-
-<meta http-equiv='expires' content='-1' />
-<meta http-equiv= 'pragma' content='no-cache' />
-<meta name='robots' content='all' />
-<meta name='author' content='ExpressionEngine Dev Team' />
-<meta name='description' content='CodeIgniter User Guide' />
-</head>
-<body>
-
-<!-- START NAVIGATION -->
-<div id="nav"><div id="nav_inner"><script type="text/javascript">create_menu('../');</script></div></div>
-<div id="nav2"><a name="top"></a><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="myHeight.toggle();"><img src="../images/nav_toggle_darker.jpg" width="154" height="43" border="0" title="Toggle Table of Contents" alt="Toggle Table of Contents" /></a></div>
-<div id="masthead">
-<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%">
-<tr>
-<td><h1>CodeIgniter User Guide Version 1.7</h1></td>
-<td id="breadcrumb_right"><a href="../toc.html">Table of Contents Page</a></td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-</div>
-<!-- END NAVIGATION -->
-
-
-<!-- START BREADCRUMB -->
-<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%">
-<tr>
-<td id="breadcrumb">
-<a href="http://codeigniter.com/">CodeIgniter Home</a> &nbsp;&#8250;&nbsp;
-<a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> &nbsp;&#8250;&nbsp;
-URL Helper
-</td>
-<td id="searchbox"><form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"><input type="hidden" name="as_sitesearch" id="as_sitesearch" value="codeigniter.com/user_guide/" />Search User Guide&nbsp; <input type="text" class="input" style="width:200px;" name="q" id="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" />&nbsp;<input type="submit" class="submit" name="sa" value="Go" /></form></td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-<!-- END BREADCRUMB -->
-
-<br clear="all" />
-
-
-<!-- START CONTENT -->
-<div id="content">
-
-
-<h1>URL Helper</h1>
-
-<p>The URL Helper file contains functions that assist in working with URLs.</p>
-
-
-<h2>Loading this Helper</h2>
-
-<p>This helper is loaded using the following code:</p>
-<code>$this->load->helper('url');</code>
-
-<p>The following functions are available:</p>
-
-<h2>site_url()</h2>
-
-<p>Returns your site URL, as specified in your config file. The index.php file (or whatever you have set as your
-site <dfn>index_page</dfn> in your config file) will be added to the URL, as will any URI segments you pass to the function.</p>
-
-<p>You are encouraged to use this function any time you need to generate a local URL so that your pages become more portable
-in the event your URL changes.</p>
-
-<p>Segments can be optionally passed to the function as a string or an array. Here is a string example:</p>
-
-<code>echo site_url("news/local/123");</code>
-
-<p>The above example would return something like: http://example.com/index.php/news/local/123</p>
-
-<p>Here is an example of segments passed as an array:</p>
-
-<code>
-$segments = array('news', 'local', '123');<br />
-<br />
-echo site_url($segments);</code>
-
-
-<h2>base_url()</h2>
-<p>Returns your site base URL, as specified in your config file. Example:</p>
-<code>echo base_url();</code>
-
-
-<h2>current_url()</h2>
-<p>Returns the full URL (including segments) of the page being currently viewed.</p>
-
-
-<h2>uri_string()</h2>
-<p>Returns the URI segments of any page that contains this function. For example, if your URL was this:</p>
-<code>http://some-site.com/blog/comments/123</code>
-
-<p>The function would return:</p>
-<code>blog/comments/123</code>
-
-
-<h2>index_page()</h2>
-<p>Returns your site "index" page, as specified in your config file. Example:</p>
-<code>echo index_page();</code>
-
-
-
-<h2>anchor()</h2>
-
-<p>Creates a standard HTML anchor link based on your local site URL:</p>
-
-<code>&lt;a href="http://example.com">Click Here&lt;/a></code>
-
-<p>The tag has three optional parameters:</p>
-
-<code>anchor(<var>uri segments</var>, <var>text</var>, <var>attributes</var>)</code>
-
-<p>The first parameter can contain any segments you wish appended to the URL. As with the <dfn>site_url()</dfn> function above,
-segments can be a string or an array.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Note:</strong>&nbsp; If you are building links that are internal to your application do not include the base URL (http://...). This
-will be added automatically from the information specified in your config file. Include only the URI segments you wish appended to the URL.</p>
-
-<p>The second segment is the text you would like the link to say. If you leave it blank, the URL will be used.</p>
-
-<p>The third parameter can contain a list of attributes you would like added to the link. The attributes can be a simple string or an associative array.</p>
-
-<p>Here are some examples:</p>
-
-<code>echo anchor('news/local/123', 'My News');</code>
-
-<p>Would produce: &lt;a href="http://example.com/index.php/news/local/123" title="My News">My News&lt;/a></p>
-
-<code>echo anchor('news/local/123', 'My News', array('title' => 'The best news!'));</code>
-
-<p>Would produce: &lt;a href="http://example.com/index.php/news/local/123" title="The best news!">My News&lt;/a></p>
-
-
-<h2>anchor_popup()</h2>
-
-<p>Nearly identical to the <dfn>anchor()</dfn> function except that it opens the URL in a new window.
-
-You can specify JavaScript window attributes in the third parameter to control how the window is opened. If
-the third parameter is not set it will simply open a new window with your own browser settings. Here is an example
-with attributes:</p>
-
-<code>
-
-$atts = array(<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'width'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '800',<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'height'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '600',<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'scrollbars' => 'yes',<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'status'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> 'yes',<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'resizable'&nbsp;&nbsp;=> 'yes',<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'screenx'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '0',<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'screeny'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '0'<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;);<br />
-<br />
-echo anchor_popup('news/local/123', 'Click Me!', $atts);</code>
-
-<p>Note: The above attributes are the function defaults so you only need to set the ones that are different from what you need.
-If you want the function to use all of its defaults simply pass an empty array in the third parameter:</p>
-
-<code>echo anchor_popup('news/local/123', 'Click Me!', array());</code>
-
-
-<h2>mailto()</h2>
-
-<p>Creates a standard HTML email link. Usage example:</p>
-
-<code>echo mailto('me@my-site.com', 'Click Here to Contact Me');</code>
-
-<p>As with the <dfn>anchor()</dfn> tab above, you can set attributes using the third parameter.</p>
-
-
-<h2>safe_mailto()</h2>
-
-<p>Identical to the above function except it writes an obfuscated version of the mailto tag using ordinal numbers
-written with JavaScript to help prevent the email address from being harvested by spam bots.</p>
-
-
-<h2>auto_link()</h2>
-
-<p>Automatically turns URLs and email addresses contained in a string into links. Example:</p>
-
-<code>$string = auto_link($string);</code>
-
-<p>The second parameter determines whether URLs and emails are converted or just one or the other. Default behavior is both
-if the parameter is not specified. Email links are encoded as safe_mailto() as shown above.</p>
-
-<p>Converts only URLs:</p>
-<code>$string = auto_link($string, 'url');</code>
-
-<p>Converts only Email addresses:</p>
-<code>$string = auto_link($string, 'email');</code>
-
-<p>The third parameter determines whether links are shown in a new window. The value can be TRUE or FALSE (boolean):</p>
-<code>$string = auto_link($string, 'both', TRUE);</code>
-
-
-<h2>url_title()</h2>
-<p>Takes a string as input and creates a human-friendly URL string. This is useful if, for example, you have a blog
-in which you'd like to use the title of your entries in the URL. Example:</p>
-
-<code>$title = "What's wrong with CSS?";<br />
-<br />
-$url_title = url_title($title);<br />
-<br />
-// Produces: whats-wrong-with-css
-</code>
-
-
-<p>The second parameter determines the word delimiter. By default dashes are used. Options are: <dfn>dash</dfn>, or <dfn>underscore</dfn>:</p>
-
-<code>$title = "What's wrong with CSS?";<br />
-<br />
-$url_title = url_title($title, 'underscore');<br />
-<br />
-// Produces: whats_wrong_with_css
-</code>
-
-
-<h3>prep_url()</h3>
-<p>This function will add <kbd>http://</kbd> in the event it is missing from a URL. Pass the URL string to the function like this:</p>
-<code>
-$url = "example.com";<br /><br />
-$url = prep_url($url);</code>
-
-
-
-
-<h2>redirect()</h2>
-
-<p>Does a "header redirect" to the local URI specified. Just like other functions in this helper, this one is designed
-to redirect to a local URL within your site. You will <strong>not</strong> specify the full site URL, but rather simply the URI segments
-to the controller you want to direct to. The function will build the URL based on your config file values.</p>
-
-<p>The optional second parameter allows you to choose between the "location"
-method (default) or the "refresh" method. Location is faster, but on Windows servers it can sometimes be a problem. The optional third parameter allows you to send a specific HTTP Response Code - this could be used for example to create 301 redirects for search engine purposes. The default Response Code is 302. The third parameter is <em>only</em> available with 'location' redirects, and not 'refresh'. Examples:</p>
-
-<code>if ($logged_in == FALSE)<br />
-{<br />
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;redirect('/login/form/', 'refresh');<br />
-}<br />
-<br />
-// with 301 redirect<br />
-redirect('/article/13', 'location', 301);</code>
-
-<p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> In order for this function to work it must be used before anything is outputted
-to the browser since it utilizes server headers.<br />
-<strong>Note:</strong> For very fine grained control over headers, you should use the <a href="../libraries/output.html">Output Library</a>'s set_header() function.</p>
-
-
-
-
-
-
-</div>
-<!-- END CONTENT -->
-
-
-<div id="footer">
-<p>
-Previous Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="typography_helper.html">Typography Helper</a>
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-<a href="#top">Top of Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-<a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-Next Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="xml_helper.html">XML Helper</a>
-</p>
-<p><a href="http://codeigniter.com">CodeIgniter</a> &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Copyright &#169; 2006-2008 &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; <a href="http://ellislab.com/">Ellislab, Inc.</a></p>
-</div>
-
-</body>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<head>
+
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<title>URL Helper : CodeIgniter User Guide</title>
+
+<style type='text/css' media='all'>@import url('../userguide.css');</style>
+<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='../userguide.css' />
+
+<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/nav.js"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/prototype.lite.js"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/moo.fx.js"></script>
+<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/user_guide_menu.js"></script>
+
+<meta http-equiv='expires' content='-1' />
+<meta http-equiv= 'pragma' content='no-cache' />
+<meta name='robots' content='all' />
+<meta name='author' content='ExpressionEngine Dev Team' />
+<meta name='description' content='CodeIgniter User Guide' />
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<!-- START NAVIGATION -->
+<div id="nav"><div id="nav_inner"><script type="text/javascript">create_menu('../');</script></div></div>
+<div id="nav2"><a name="top"></a><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="myHeight.toggle();"><img src="../images/nav_toggle_darker.jpg" width="154" height="43" border="0" title="Toggle Table of Contents" alt="Toggle Table of Contents" /></a></div>
+<div id="masthead">
+<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%">
+<tr>
+<td><h1>CodeIgniter User Guide Version 1.7</h1></td>
+<td id="breadcrumb_right"><a href="../toc.html">Table of Contents Page</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+<!-- END NAVIGATION -->
+
+
+<!-- START BREADCRUMB -->
+<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%">
+<tr>
+<td id="breadcrumb">
+<a href="http://codeigniter.com/">CodeIgniter Home</a> &nbsp;&#8250;&nbsp;
+<a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> &nbsp;&#8250;&nbsp;
+URL Helper
+</td>
+<td id="searchbox"><form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"><input type="hidden" name="as_sitesearch" id="as_sitesearch" value="codeigniter.com/user_guide/" />Search User Guide&nbsp; <input type="text" class="input" style="width:200px;" name="q" id="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" />&nbsp;<input type="submit" class="submit" name="sa" value="Go" /></form></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+<!-- END BREADCRUMB -->
+
+<br clear="all" />
+
+
+<!-- START CONTENT -->
+<div id="content">
+
+
+<h1>URL Helper</h1>
+
+<p>The URL Helper file contains functions that assist in working with URLs.</p>
+
+
+<h2>Loading this Helper</h2>
+
+<p>This helper is loaded using the following code:</p>
+<code>$this->load->helper('url');</code>
+
+<p>The following functions are available:</p>
+
+<h2>site_url()</h2>
+
+<p>Returns your site URL, as specified in your config file. The index.php file (or whatever you have set as your
+site <dfn>index_page</dfn> in your config file) will be added to the URL, as will any URI segments you pass to the function.</p>
+
+<p>You are encouraged to use this function any time you need to generate a local URL so that your pages become more portable
+in the event your URL changes.</p>
+
+<p>Segments can be optionally passed to the function as a string or an array. Here is a string example:</p>
+
+<code>echo site_url("news/local/123");</code>
+
+<p>The above example would return something like: http://example.com/index.php/news/local/123</p>
+
+<p>Here is an example of segments passed as an array:</p>
+
+<code>
+$segments = array('news', 'local', '123');<br />
+<br />
+echo site_url($segments);</code>
+
+
+<h2>base_url()</h2>
+<p>Returns your site base URL, as specified in your config file. Example:</p>
+<code>echo base_url();</code>
+
+
+<h2>current_url()</h2>
+<p>Returns the full URL (including segments) of the page being currently viewed.</p>
+
+
+<h2>uri_string()</h2>
+<p>Returns the URI segments of any page that contains this function. For example, if your URL was this:</p>
+<code>http://some-site.com/blog/comments/123</code>
+
+<p>The function would return:</p>
+<code>blog/comments/123</code>
+
+
+<h2>index_page()</h2>
+<p>Returns your site "index" page, as specified in your config file. Example:</p>
+<code>echo index_page();</code>
+
+
+
+<h2>anchor()</h2>
+
+<p>Creates a standard HTML anchor link based on your local site URL:</p>
+
+<code>&lt;a href="http://example.com">Click Here&lt;/a></code>
+
+<p>The tag has three optional parameters:</p>
+
+<code>anchor(<var>uri segments</var>, <var>text</var>, <var>attributes</var>)</code>
+
+<p>The first parameter can contain any segments you wish appended to the URL. As with the <dfn>site_url()</dfn> function above,
+segments can be a string or an array.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Note:</strong>&nbsp; If you are building links that are internal to your application do not include the base URL (http://...). This
+will be added automatically from the information specified in your config file. Include only the URI segments you wish appended to the URL.</p>
+
+<p>The second segment is the text you would like the link to say. If you leave it blank, the URL will be used.</p>
+
+<p>The third parameter can contain a list of attributes you would like added to the link. The attributes can be a simple string or an associative array.</p>
+
+<p>Here are some examples:</p>
+
+<code>echo anchor('news/local/123', 'My News');</code>
+
+<p>Would produce: &lt;a href="http://example.com/index.php/news/local/123" title="My News">My News&lt;/a></p>
+
+<code>echo anchor('news/local/123', 'My News', array('title' => 'The best news!'));</code>
+
+<p>Would produce: &lt;a href="http://example.com/index.php/news/local/123" title="The best news!">My News&lt;/a></p>
+
+
+<h2>anchor_popup()</h2>
+
+<p>Nearly identical to the <dfn>anchor()</dfn> function except that it opens the URL in a new window.
+
+You can specify JavaScript window attributes in the third parameter to control how the window is opened. If
+the third parameter is not set it will simply open a new window with your own browser settings. Here is an example
+with attributes:</p>
+
+<code>
+
+$atts = array(<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'width'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '800',<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'height'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '600',<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'scrollbars' => 'yes',<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'status'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> 'yes',<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'resizable'&nbsp;&nbsp;=> 'yes',<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'screenx'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '0',<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'screeny'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;=> '0'<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;);<br />
+<br />
+echo anchor_popup('news/local/123', 'Click Me!', $atts);</code>
+
+<p>Note: The above attributes are the function defaults so you only need to set the ones that are different from what you need.
+If you want the function to use all of its defaults simply pass an empty array in the third parameter:</p>
+
+<code>echo anchor_popup('news/local/123', 'Click Me!', array());</code>
+
+
+<h2>mailto()</h2>
+
+<p>Creates a standard HTML email link. Usage example:</p>
+
+<code>echo mailto('me@my-site.com', 'Click Here to Contact Me');</code>
+
+<p>As with the <dfn>anchor()</dfn> tab above, you can set attributes using the third parameter.</p>
+
+
+<h2>safe_mailto()</h2>
+
+<p>Identical to the above function except it writes an obfuscated version of the mailto tag using ordinal numbers
+written with JavaScript to help prevent the email address from being harvested by spam bots.</p>
+
+
+<h2>auto_link()</h2>
+
+<p>Automatically turns URLs and email addresses contained in a string into links. Example:</p>
+
+<code>$string = auto_link($string);</code>
+
+<p>The second parameter determines whether URLs and emails are converted or just one or the other. Default behavior is both
+if the parameter is not specified. Email links are encoded as safe_mailto() as shown above.</p>
+
+<p>Converts only URLs:</p>
+<code>$string = auto_link($string, 'url');</code>
+
+<p>Converts only Email addresses:</p>
+<code>$string = auto_link($string, 'email');</code>
+
+<p>The third parameter determines whether links are shown in a new window. The value can be TRUE or FALSE (boolean):</p>
+<code>$string = auto_link($string, 'both', TRUE);</code>
+
+
+<h2>url_title()</h2>
+<p>Takes a string as input and creates a human-friendly URL string. This is useful if, for example, you have a blog
+in which you'd like to use the title of your entries in the URL. Example:</p>
+
+<code>$title = "What's wrong with CSS?";<br />
+<br />
+$url_title = url_title($title);<br />
+<br />
+// Produces: whats-wrong-with-css
+</code>
+
+
+<p>The second parameter determines the word delimiter. By default dashes are used. Options are: <dfn>dash</dfn>, or <dfn>underscore</dfn>:</p>
+
+<code>$title = "What's wrong with CSS?";<br />
+<br />
+$url_title = url_title($title, 'underscore');<br />
+<br />
+// Produces: whats_wrong_with_css
+</code>
+
+
+<h3>prep_url()</h3>
+<p>This function will add <kbd>http://</kbd> in the event it is missing from a URL. Pass the URL string to the function like this:</p>
+<code>
+$url = "example.com";<br /><br />
+$url = prep_url($url);</code>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>redirect()</h2>
+
+<p>Does a "header redirect" to the local URI specified. Just like other functions in this helper, this one is designed
+to redirect to a local URL within your site. You will <strong>not</strong> specify the full site URL, but rather simply the URI segments
+to the controller you want to direct to. The function will build the URL based on your config file values.</p>
+
+<p>The optional second parameter allows you to choose between the "location"
+method (default) or the "refresh" method. Location is faster, but on Windows servers it can sometimes be a problem. The optional third parameter allows you to send a specific HTTP Response Code - this could be used for example to create 301 redirects for search engine purposes. The default Response Code is 302. The third parameter is <em>only</em> available with 'location' redirects, and not 'refresh'. Examples:</p>
+
+<code>if ($logged_in == FALSE)<br />
+{<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;redirect('/login/form/', 'refresh');<br />
+}<br />
+<br />
+// with 301 redirect<br />
+redirect('/article/13', 'location', 301);</code>
+
+<p class="important"><strong>Note:</strong> In order for this function to work it must be used before anything is outputted
+to the browser since it utilizes server headers.<br />
+<strong>Note:</strong> For very fine grained control over headers, you should use the <a href="../libraries/output.html">Output Library</a>'s set_header() function.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+</div>
+<!-- END CONTENT -->
+
+
+<div id="footer">
+<p>
+Previous Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="typography_helper.html">Typography Helper</a>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+<a href="#top">Top of Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+<a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+Next Topic:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="xml_helper.html">XML Helper</a>
+</p>
+<p><a href="http://codeigniter.com">CodeIgniter</a> &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; Copyright &#169; 2006-2008 &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; <a href="http://ellislab.com/">Ellislab, Inc.</a></p>
+</div>
+
+</body>
</html> \ No newline at end of file