[pede69]

Hi...

Would someone please be kind enough to help me with php code to insert into my webpage?

I have a site that shortens a url. It uses an SQL DB. (not important for this, I believe)

I need the php code to keep the shortened url in the address bar after redirecting to the landing page. The way it works now is that it shortens the url but the original url shows in the address bar after reaching the landing page.

Would someone please help me out here?

I hope I am allowed to put the url here? I am not promoting the site. I can not even use it the way it is now.

Moderators, delete this if it is not ok to be here. Thank you.

URL: gourlgo.com

If you would like, I will give you a free webhosting account for helping me get this the way I want it.
(pretty fast server) cPanel, Fantasico, RV Skin, RV Sitebuilder... the works.

Thank you,
John

[phpdoctor]

Im having trouble understanding your question...

You want to have a url look shortened and get the url from the database?

Maybe an ID?:

PHP Code:

$sql = 'select * from table_name where Id="'.mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['id']).'"' ;

$result = mysql_query($sql) ;



    if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))

    {

        require 'pages/'.$row['page_name'] ;

    } 

Hope this is what you mean lol... Have you had any experiance with php? Otherwise i can explain thing more in depth

Lex

[Jay6390]

Basically, you are going to need to use a .htaccess file and mod_rewrite to send all URI's for your URL to a script. that script will take the data, and process it by doing as Lex has said above. To add them, you would simply need to generate a random string of characters of a predefined length, and add them to the database along with the URL of the site as long as the URL and random string arent already in the db, then you will either output the random string already in the database for the URL or generate a new random string until a unique one is created respectively

Jay