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This function outputs a string that is filename friendly. It removes all non-characters and punctuation from the input and converts to lowercase. I find this useful for seo friendly cms pages. This function is still being tweaked so any improvements would be most appreciated.

function checkCharacters($title) {
    $final_text = ”;
    $title = strtolower(trim(stripslashes($title)));
    for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($title); $i++) {
        $letter = substr($title,$i,1); 
        $ascii = ord($letter); 
        if (($ascii >= 97 && $ascii <= 122) || ($ascii>=48 && $ascii <= 57))
        {
            $final_text .= $letter; 
        }
        else 
        {
            $final_text .= "-"; 
        }

    return $final_text;
}
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