External links and php

craptakular · 9 Jan 2011 at 19:28

I have some external links on my wordpress site that are very long and filled with a lot of symbols. I have noticed on some sites that people seem to have "buried/hidden" these long external urls and simply have links like this:

/externallink1.php

I'm not sure what this technique is called but it would be very handy for me. Can anyone shed any light?

craptakular · 10 Jan 2011 at 07:25

ran my site through a validator and fixed all the errors, so the links are fine now.

Dj_Jestar · 10 Jan 2011 at 10:29

Isn't it called "using an anchor tag"?

Code:

<a href="http://www.host.com/stupidlylonglinkwithalotofsymbols.php?asdasdjaniuwnonqokwmelqmwe123123123123iudhfgpu9p82u349hu123n">notalonglink.php</a>

Snooble · 10 Jan 2011 at 10:55

You can set up POST's to a redirect.php file. And have the redirect file header(""); the external link.

Crowze · 10 Jan 2011 at 10:57

I think what the OP is after is redirection - you'd put something like this in your externallink1.php:

PHP:

header('Location: http://someothersite.com/with/a/ridiculously/long/path/to/the/page.html');

There's plenty of examples in the PHP documentation for the header function.