Re: Splitting up long URLs

From:	tedd	Date:	Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:54:47 +0000
Subject:	Re: Splitting up long URLs
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At 11:57 AM -0400 7/7/08, Daniel Brown wrote:

    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"; ?>

Very nice. However, there isn't a way to change what the user see's in the browser's url box, is there? For example, can you send a user to http://example.com/a.php, but they see http://example.com/b.php in their browser? Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com