How to send response to a URL, where page dose not exits?

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I am Creating a URL shortning service with core php, I created a Database storing long and short (generated after submission of the form) URL's. Is there any way i can make it like this that i dont have to use a page to acess the short URL, Let me explain in detail.

  • I have a index.php and it has a form, it takes a URL or long URL from the user and after validation of the URL i save the Long Url with a short 5-6 character string, i save this to my database, and i will send back the short URL to the User.

  • To acess the short URL i created another page called link.php and i am listining for the querystring in this page request like this http://localhost:80/link.php?q=d3432hnc.

Ans i am looking for this question -

So i am asking that is there any other way i can acess the short url just like https://localhost:80/jfkdasjfkajsd without making a page and passing this url in the queryStrings like http://localhost:80/link.php?q=jfkdasjfkajsd.

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Search for "php URL rewriting".

You can setup Apache or nginx to rewrite the first url into the second.

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look into mod_rewrite module and .htaccess of apache/php

In essence, it allows treating URL segments as parameters and passing them to a script

.htaccess

Options FollowSymLinks
ReWriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}  !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}  !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [QSA,L]

now if your website is called by an URL http://website.com/this/is/great

index.php gets invoked and URL segments are passed via GET parameter

In index.php you can use: 

$url = explode('/', htmlspecialchars($_GET['q']));

to get an array of URL segments. Use them to figure out what file to return

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