Pathauto added special characters in url alias - drupal 7

    To improve SEO, we need to clean our URLs. By default in drupal, we've an option called clean URLs at the configuration. In drupal 7, we can also manage the URLs. For instance, you have a content type called services. You wanted to each service page have url like services/page-name. To do that, we've a pathauto module in drupal 7. The pathauto module allow us to manage the URLs for every content types, files, taxonomy & users and also we can remove some unnecessary words from URL like an, the and so on.

   The pathauto module can remove some unnecessary words like a, an, the and so on & also remove special characters like !, @, $ and so on. Unfortunately, it doesn't included some other symbols like copyright(©), trademark(™), registered(®) and so on. But it provide a hook to add new symbols into the punctuation settings called hook_pathauto_punctuation_chars_alter. After created a content with some symbols which are represented above, your page URL looks like below image:

/**
 * Implements hook_pathauto_punctuation_chars_alter().
 */
function phponwebsites_pathauto_punctuation_chars_alter(array &$punctuation) {
  $punctuation['copyright']          = array('value' => '©', 'name' => t('Copyright'));
  $punctuation['registered']         = array('value' => '®', 'name' => t('Registered trademark'));
  $punctuation['trademark']          = array('value' => '™', 'name' => t('Trademark'));
}

   After implemented above code into your module, you cold see added symbols are listing on Pathauto module's settings page at /admin/config/search/path/settings. If You didn't get these symbols, clear cache & test it again. It looks like below image:

Now you can create a content with those symbols. The pathauto module didn't added those symbols into the URL.

Now I hope you know how to remove some special characters from URL alias using pathauto module in drupal 7.

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