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Do you want to encode URLs like tinyurl.com does?
This is helper tool for you.

Features

Urly uses PDO interface to store URLs. Just refer to your existing connection.

Optionally you can specify table name, key encode base and XOR mask.

Access methods are quite obvious: set($url) and get($key).

Install

To install with composer:

composer require artoodetoo/urly

Required table structure:

CREATE TABLE `urly` (
  `id` int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `url` varchar(1000) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
)

Basic Usage

Save URL and het encoded key:

$db = new \PDO(
    'mysql:dbname=homestead;host=127.0.0.1;charset=utf8',
    'homestead', 
    'secret'
);

// Set 62 base to get alfa-numeric key in both cases and 
// some magic number to make key sequence be less predictable
$shortener = new \R2\Utility\Urly($db, 'my_urly', 62, 990749);

$key = $shortener->set('http://localhost/test.txt');
echo 'http://go.to/'.$key."\n"; // Something like 'http://go.to/49Jz'

Get URL by key:

echo $shortener->get('49Jz'); // Saved URL or empty string if not found

License

The Urly is open-source software, licensed under the MIT license