'Dots' in the url_title

Question

Is there any way of forcing EE to remove 'dots' from the url title? As in an entry called "thiscompany.com" I want the url title to be thiscompanycom because other things depend on not having dots and it generally is bad practice to have it in the url (browser gets confused)

I tried this in the config file:

$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%:_\-';

but the system won't override what seems to be a code ignitor default.

So my question is, where do I override this in the CI core if necessary, or some other way of doing it?

Answer 1

1. You can use any ee add-ons which can create url_titles from another field (for example - MX *Title Control) + somethink like low_replace to remove dot's.

2. You can replace it on JS level, you can use Foreign Character Extension

3. You can make your own ext. using entry_submission_start hook.

4. If you decide to hack core: \expressionengine\helpers\EE_url_helper.php, line 59 function url_title, after

   $trans = array(
                   '&\#\d+?;'              => '',
                   '&\S+?;'                => '',
                   '\s+'                   => $replace,
                   '[^a-z0-9\-\._]'        => '',
                   $replace.'+'            => $replace,
                   $replace.'$'            => $replace,
                   '^'.$replace            => $replace,
                   '\.+$'                  => ''
               );
   

just add new line

 $str = str_replace('.', '' , $str);