***BOGO*** Re: [PHP] Splitting up long URLs

["Daniel Brown" <parasane@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Brian Dunning <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a web page that lists "most recent comments" in a left margin.
> Sometimes people post long URLs, or even just really really long words, that
> force that margin to display way too wide, screwing up the page layout. Is
> there a way to make sure URLs or other text in a string gets split up so
> this doesn't happen?

    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";
?>

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