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public static function friendly_title($str, $sep = '-', $lowercase = false)
 {
  // Allow underscore, otherwise default to dash
  $sep = $sep != '_' ? '-' : $sep;

  // Decode all entities to their simpler forms
  $str = html_entity_decode($str, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

  $trans = array(
   '\s+' => $sep,   // one or more spaces => seperator
   $sep.'+' => $sep,  // multiple seperators => 1 seperator
   $sep.'$' => '',   // ending seperator => (nothing)
   '^'.$sep => '',   // starting seperator => (nothing)
   '\.+$' => '',   // ending dot => (nothing)
   '\?' => ''    // question mark
  );
  
  foreach ($trans as $key => $val)
  {
   $str = preg_replace("#".$key."#i", $val, $str);
  }

  // Only allow 7bit characters
  $str = static::ascii($str);
  
  // only allow chars and numbers
  $str = preg_replace("#[^a-z0-9\-\._]#i", '', $str);

  $str = \Security::strip_tags($str);
  
  if ($lowercase === true)
  {
   $str = \Str::lower($str);
  }

  return $str;
 }