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How to make a url shortener using php?
Please help me... This maybe offtopic but please tell me how this works. I have been willing to make a url shortener using php. But i dont know where to start. After reading some articles, I found out that I should make a database, when a person comes to the short url, php should search database and find where to go. But in this case the url people get will be something like this: www.mysite.com/short.php?key="atom" Here the atom is the shortened url. But i want it to be like this: www.mysite.com/atom Here there is no extension named php also there is no "?". But I dont how to do THIS. Please answer if you know anything related to this, because that could help solve my problem
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Steve Sajeev here is one of many examples to help get you started https://nomadphp.com/blog/64/creating-a-url-shortener-application-in-php-mysql
there are many other options
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Thanks, BroFar
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Thanks đ©đ»đ»đźđ¶ .
I guess I'll have to learn more about htaccess.
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This is a great idea Joshua Schaeffer .
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Hi,
I implemented this using php with no database needed. Each time I create a directory based from the shortened URL and then added a single file called index.php with a redirect to the user specified URL. You can see it in action here https://joshuaschaeffer.work/s/
I will also post the 2 php files I used. Hopefully this helps and maybe gives you some ideas!
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index.php
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>URL Shortener</h1>
<form action="./generate.php" method="post">
<label for="shortened_url_label">New shortened URL: https://joshuaschaeffer.work/s/ </label><input type="text" id="shortened_url" name="shortened_url" value=""><br><br>
<label for="full_url_label">Redirect to this URL: </label><input type="text" id="full_url" name="full_url" value=""><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
generate.php
<?php
$full_url = $_POST['full_url'];
$shortened_url = $_POST['shortened_url'];
if(is_dir($shortened_url))
{
echo "Shortened URL already in use!";
}
else
{
//make the directory based on the shortened url
mkdir($shortened_url, 0777, true);
//add index.php file in /shorted_url directory
//this way we can simply link to website.com/shortened_url
$file_handle = fopen($shortened_url . "/index.php", "x+");
//prepare content to write to index.php
//simple redirect to whatever url is specified
$write_to_file = "<?php header(" . "\"Location: " . $full_url . "\"" . "); ?>";
fwrite($file_handle, $write_to_file);
fclose($file_handle);
echo $full_url . " successfully mapped to " . "/s/" . $shortened_url;
}
?>
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