PHP URL Shortening Algorithm

Question

Could anyone recommend a preferred algorithm to use for URL shortening? I\'m coding using PHP. Initially I thought about writing something that would start at a character su

Answer 1

You can use base_convert function to do a base convertion from 10 to 36 with the database IDs.

<?php
   $id = 315;
   echo base_convert($id, 10, 36), "\n";
?>

Or you can reuse some of the ideas presented in the comments on the page bellow:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.base-convert.php