Hide/shorten a long url in php

Hi,

need a solution to do this:

suppose there is a url more than 40 chars long, like:

fakekedomain.com/index.php?a=abd&b=bcd&page=5&set=12&name=url

I want to make it like this: fakedomain.com/index.php?...name=url
or, can i completely hide it from showing in the status bar?

how can i do it? waiting for suitable suggestion

 

Well, I suppose check length of string if it is more than 20 chars for example, then use

 substr 

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to cut first 10 and last 10 chars from it.

 

<a href="your-long-url-etc-etc-etc-etc" onmouseover="window.status=this.href.substring(0,10);" onmouseout="window.status='';">Link text</a>

Code (markup):

This only truncates (to 10 characters in this case), you can work with the this.href value to get a nicer value.

I don't recommend doing this though, besides seeming like a waste of time and effort, browsers have options to disable sites from working with the status bar, some even by default, such as Firefox.

 

oh, thanks for the help.

 

I think you are confused. Php is a server side language and can not message with a browsers status bar. I suggest you look into a javascript solution to hiding the link from the status bar mouseover.

if you want to shorten what is shown in <a href="">THiS PORTION</a> then that is different.

<?php
function sniphref($href)
{
  if(strlen($href) >= 20)
 {
    $starthref = substr($href,0,10);
    $endhref = substr($href,0,-10);
    $href = $starthref."...".$endhref;
 }
 else { }
  return $href;
}

echo "<a href='http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=404468'>".sniphref("'http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=404468")."</a>";

?>

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The above code has not been tested, but I think it works.

 

However, i'll try this code, and of course, thanks a lot for your kind help.

 

I redid it just a bit. Not much just the lengths are different.

<?php
function sniphref($href)
{

  if(strlen($href) >= 30)
 {
    $starthref = substr($href,0,15);
    $endhref = substr($href,0,-10);
    $href = $starthref."...".$endhref;
 }
 else { }
  return $href;
}

echo "<a href='http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=404468'>".sniphref("'http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=404468")."</a>";

?>

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Output

http://forums.digi...p?t=404468

I don't know, play with it a bit to get the desired length to show.

 

Fantastic job! i was looking for exactly this type of work. Thanks a lot friend

 

me too.. Thanks guys..

 

I know it sounds redundant but I guess you can redo the function in this way too.

function sniphref($href)
{

  if(strlen($href) >= 30)
 {
    $href= substr($href,0,15)."...".substr($href,0,-10);
 }

  return $href;
}

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