biozshock/short-url-bundle

Provides a service and twig extension for getting short urls like http://your.host/~short

ShortUrlBundle

This bundle provides a service and twig extension for getting short urls like http://your.host/~short, _(*1)

, _(*2)

Installation

Add this bundle to your project

Using the vendors script, _(*3)

Add the following lines in your deps file:, _(*4)

[BumzShortUrlBundle]
    git=git://github.com/biozshock/ShortUrlBundle.git
    target=bundles/Bumz/ShortUrlBundle

Run the vendors script:, _(*5)

$ php bin/vendors install

Using Git submodule, _(*6)

$ git submodule add git://github.com/biozshock/ShortUrlBundle.git vendor/bundles/Bumz/ShortUrlBundle

Add the Bumz namespace to your autoloader

<?php
// app/autoload.php

$loader->registerNamespaces(array(
    'Bumz' => __DIR__.'/../vendor/bundles',
    // your other namespaces
));

Add this bundle to your application's kernel

<?php
// app/AppKernel.php

public function registerBundles()
{
    return array(
        // ...
        new Bumz\ShortUrlBundle\BumzShortUrlBundle(),
        // ...
    );
}

Add bundle's routing

# /app/config/routing.yml
BumzShortUrlBundle:
    resource: "@BumzShortUrlBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml"
    prefix:   /

Examples

Short url in a controller

<?php

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;

class UsersController extends Controller
{
    public function getUserProfileShortAction()
    {

        ...

        $longUrl = $this->get('bumz_short_url.shortener')->shorten('http://example.com');
        // $longUrl = '/~ShE'

        ...
    }
}

Get long url in controller

<?php

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;

class UsersController extends Controller
{
    public function getUserProfileShortAction()
    {

        ...

        $shortUrl = 'aUty';
        $longUrl = $this->get('bumz_short_url.shortener')->getLong($shortUrl);
        // $longUrl = 'http://example.com'

        ...
    }
}

Get short url in a twig template

{{ 'http://example.com' | shortenUrl }}
{# this will output something like /~ShE #}