Question

My script is generating a very long URL just like the one below and I wonder how this can be shorten with an algorithm or technique?

This is the long URL:
http://example.com/script.php?param1=value1&param2=value2&param3=value3&param4=value4&param5=value5

I want to shorten it to something like this:
http://example.com/script.php?p=430×2920

How can I do this with out caching the original link the database?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You could always just use a single param with a delimiter and then split it back out in code.

http://example.com/script.php?p=1x2x3x4x5

with x or whatever you want that isn’t part of the possible values as a delimeter.