Re: Splitting up long URLs
| From: | Daniel Brown | Date: | Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:57:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Splitting up long URLs | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Brian Dunning <brian@briandunning.com> wrote:
> I have a web page that lists "most recent comments" in a left margin.
> Sometimes people post long URLs, or even just really really long words, that
> force that margin to display way too wide, screwing up the page layout. Is
> there a way to make sure URLs or other text in a string gets split up so
> this doesn't happen?
You could display the URL's the way Google handles them:
<?php
function shortenURL($longURL) {
preg_match('/\/?[a-z0-9\.\-]+\//Ui',$longURL,$matches);
$shortURL = str_replace('/','',$matches[0]);
return $shortURL;
}
$longURL = "http://some-SPAM-URL-011.example.com/v14gra/p3n15_pump.php?affil=43ERG3245wert002934&boo=yaa!";
echo "<a
href=\"".$longURL."\">".shortenURL($longURL)."</a><br
/>\n";
?>
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</Daniel P. Brown>
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