passing random variable string into url

Website · Jun 9, 2010

I have two scripts. One is a tinyurl API and the other gnerates random strings. What I want to do it pass a random string into the tiny URL API script such that the tiny URL generated is always different

Code:

<?php

function createRandomPassword() { 

    $chars = "abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz023456789"; 
    srand((double)microtime()*1000000); 
    $i = 0; 
    $pass = '' ; 

    while ($i <= 7) { 
        $num = rand() % 33; 
        $tmp = substr($chars, $num, 1); 
        $pass = $pass . $tmp; 
        $i++; 
    } 

    return $pass; 

} 

// Usage 
$password = createRandomPassword(); 

?>


<?php


//gets the data from a URL  
function get_tiny_url($url)  
{  
	$ch = curl_init();  
	$timeout = 5;  
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'http://t1nyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url);  
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);  
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);  
	$data = curl_exec($ch);  
	curl_close($ch);  
	return $data;  
}

//test it out!
$new_url = get_tiny_url('http://domain.com/?password);


echo $new_url

?>

where it says http://domain.com/?password i want the password value in the first script to be passed before a tiny url is generated

thanks

voyevoda · Jun 10, 2010

That's a, uh,... really interesting (and not very good) random string generator!

I think this does what you want:

PHP:

<?php

function createRandomPassword() { 

    $chars = "abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz023456789"; 
    srand((double)microtime()*1000000); 
    $i = 0; 
    $pass = '' ; 

    while ($i <= 7) { 
        $num = rand() % 33; 
        $tmp = substr($chars, $num, 1); 
        $pass = $pass . $tmp; 
        $i++; 
    } 

    return $pass; 

} 

// Usage 
$password = createRandomPassword(); 

//gets the data from a URL  
function get_tiny_url($url)  
{  
	$ch = curl_init();  
	$timeout = 5;  
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,"http://t1nyurl.com/api-create.php?url=$url");  
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);  
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);  
	$data = curl_exec($ch);  
	curl_close($ch);  
	return $data;  
}

//test it out!
$new_url = get_tiny_url("http://domain.com/?$password");


echo $new_url;

?>

Here's how I would do it:

PHP:

<?php

function get_tiny_url($url)
{
	$ch = curl_init();
	$timeout = 5;
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://t1nyurl.com/api-create.php?url=$url");
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
	$data = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $data;
}

//test it out!
$new_url = get_tiny_url('http://domain.com/?' . uniqid());

echo $new_url;

?>

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