PHP random URL names (short URL)

Asked 2011-03-24T16:05:06.963

After using sites like JSFiddle I noticed that they auto generate a random and unique URL made up of various upper and lower case characters.

We could benefit from this for our booking pages. How is it done?

php url random unique short-url

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You could simply create an array of all potential characters then randomly pick out however many you want and return them as the URL "code"?

$arr = array('a','b','c','d');
$count = count($arr) - 1;
$str = $arr[rand(0, $coun)].$arr[rand(0, $coun)];

answered 2011-03-24T16:07:58.037