Re: Splitting up long URLs

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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:54 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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apache's mod_rewrite can do that

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