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Bijection URL shortening: Encode and decode values for short URLs

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This class can encode and decode values for short URLs.

It can take a given id number for a short URL that will eventually be stored in a database and generates a sequence of random characters that will be used to associate to the short URL of the given id.

The generated short URL may have an optional check digit.

The class can also that a previously generated short URL and decode it to find the original identifier number or the URL.

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PHP Programming Innovation award nominee
September 2015
Number 9		 URL shortening services are very popular. Usually they store in a database a long URL that corresponds to a short character sequence.

This class implements an algorithm that makes the short URL character sequence be derived by a number that can be the id of the database record stored in a database.

This fact allows saving an additional field that would otherwise be used to store the short URL key.

The use of a check digit allows doing prior validation of short URLs without performing a database lookup.

These details make this algorithm more efficient than the traditional ways used to map short to long URLs.

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Example

<?php

use rbib\util\string\encode\Bijection;

include 'rbib/util/string/encode/Bijection.php';

$bijection = (new Bijection());
//create short url based on int(100)
$encode_id = $bijection->encode(100);
echo $encode_id; //aNbC

//decode the short url to int (100)
$decode_id = $bijection->decode($encode_id);
echo $decode_id; //100



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  Plain text file Bijection.php Class URL shortening algorithm

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