Re: Splitting up long URLs

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:54 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > apache's mod_rewrite can do that -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat