shorten url

[jebster]

How do I shorten a urls name like the forum does like this:
http://www.whatever.com/blahblahblah/blahblahblahblah/blahblah.php

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[uniflare]

i dont know hw the forum does it, but here is one way....

<?php

$URL = "http://www.mydomain.com/someforums/somefolder/someotherfolder/somefile.php?somevar=somevalue";

$shorten_to = "20";

$split_var = $shorten_to / "2";

$url_array = explode(":|:",chunk_split($URL, $split_var, ':|:')); 

$num = count($url_array) - "2";

$new_url = $url_array[0]."...".$url_array[$num];

echo'<a href="'.$URL.'">'.$new_url.'</a>';

?>

[uniflare]

I guess this is another way...

<?php
$URL = "http://www.mydomain.com/someforums/somefolder/someotherfolder/somefile.php?somevar=somevalue";
$the_link = explode("?",$URL);
$url = str_replace("http://","",$the_link[0]);
$url_array = explode("/",$url);
$split_count = count($url_array) - 1;
$link = '<a href="'.$URL.'">'.$url_array[0].'...'.$url_array[$split_count].'</a>';
echo($link);
?>

[jebster]

Thank you! 🙂