On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:49:34 +0200 (CEST), Henri Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > The principle is that you enter your long url in their > form and it gives you a shorten url like > tinyurl.com/h4599 > > I was wondering how it works. I think it must use PHP. >
It would use a feature of an HTTP server such as Apache -- URL rewriting Basically, you can make rules such that urls like http://tinyurl.com/h4599 become http://tinyurl.com/index.php?id=h4599 you would then handle it from there. But this is off topic :) ---- ramil http://ramil.sagum.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
