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ptrlol
ptrlol

Reputation: 3

How to remove a specific part of a link whilst redirecting in PHP?

I was looking at other places and it seems to be confusing me still.
Here is an example of what I'm trying to do:

Here is the link: https://example.com/redirect/abc?123
And I'd like it to redirect to the page: https://example.com/newlink/abc - Which removes the ?123 and redirecting to that

Edit: The website specifically is a shortlink website and theres a website that does it but adds something next to the link like https://example.com/newlink/NewLink?SomethingHere which then breaks it - I'm trying to find a way to remove the ?SomethingHere part, if you get what I mean.

How would I do that in PHP specifically?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 620

Answers (2)

Khoa Phùng
Khoa Phùng

Reputation: 31

You can use strtok function to remove the parameters after the URL, and use the following instruction header("Location: ...") to perform the redirection.

Take a look at the following example:

 $url = strtok($url, '?');
 header("Location: $url")

Upvotes: 1

RiggsFolly
RiggsFolly

Reputation: 94682

Using parse_url() which breaks up the parts of a URL into an assoc array, you can simply do

$url = 'https://example.com/redirect/abc?123';
$bits = parse_url($url);

$NewLocation = $bits['scheme'] . '://' . $bits['host'] . $bits['path'];
echo $NewLocation;

RESULT

https://example.com/redirect/abc

If you were to print_r($bits) you would see the array like this

Array
(
    [scheme] => https
    [host] => example.com
    [path] => /redirect/abc
    [query] => 123
)

Upvotes: 4

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