Problem with URL's from Views

You can create a view with an argument for title-- which will enable you to type the title into the address bar to navigate directly to the view you set up there. I had trouble understanding arguments at first too-- it's more difficult to explain than it is to use them.

Most of views2 documentation is in the advanced help, but some links that helped me grok it (i originally learned with views1):

• http://drupal.org/node/247205 -- it's for d5, so the UI looks different, but the ideas are exactly the same. It's definitely still worth watching.
• http://gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-views-arguments
• http://drupal.org/node/54455

For a tourist site we have got 95% of the basics working except..... spaces in the links to taxonomy...
Where mcfilms needs "catagory/place/this-is-the-title"
we need "tourism/monuments-and-buildings" but have space instead of hyphens.

Could this specific view be manually overriden, export the code and then tell this part:
'make_link' => 1,
'path' => '[name]/[name_1]',
that in 'path' the spaces should be substituted by hyphens?

Or could something like:

  $reg_ex = "[[:space:]]";
  $replace_word = "-";
  $str = "php string replace tutorial";
  echo ereg_replace($reg_ex, $replace_word, $str);
  

be applied somewhere? (or similar code, got it from somewhere, is not mine..)

McFilms/Hueij:

I think the way to accomplish this is to use the Views themeing layer to rewrite the node title (or whatever field you're using) with dashes and no spaces. You'd do this at the field level. You can place PHP inside a views template in your theme folder and use regular expressions to accomplish your rewrite.

WorldFallz advice and links are spot on and useful. However, it seems to me that what people are looking for in this thread is how to set up views to *output* URLs with dashes and no spaces. Getting views to accept these as arguments is a solved problem. Example: A view whose output is a list of links; these links are paths that trigger another view that accepts part of the path as an argument. The key problem is how to get the initial view to output the nicer (spaceless) links that then can be used to jump to a more specific view that accepts the URL arguments.

I don't know how to do this except via Views themeing...