How to generate fixed length key?

[cuixiping]

For example, always generate 6-chars key for id 1 to 1,000,000?

[JMcrafter26]

There is no simple way of doing it, you need to dive into the code and rewrite it

PS: I made an ui for shorty: Here

[cuixiping]

There is no simple way of doing it, you need to dive into the code and rewrite it

PS: I made an ui for shorty: Here

The demo doesn't work.

[JMcrafter26]

There is no simple way of doing it, you need to dive into the code and rewrite it PS: I made an ui for shorty: Here

The demo doesn't work.

There is a note saying that this is a demo and the demo doesn't work, please read that

[cuixiping]

There is no simple way of doing it, you need to dive into the code and rewrite it PS: I made an ui for shorty: Here

The demo doesn't work.

There is a note saying that this is a demo and the demo doesn't work, please read that

Your UI demo looks pretty! :+1:

[JMcrafter26]

Hello, it's me again. I found a way that does this. In the config.php file there is a $padding variable. But it behaves strange, for example if you set it to 7 the length of the short link will be 5.

IMPORTANT: Changing the padding variable will permanently change all short links

[cuixiping]

Thank you for your research. Yes, the $padding is confusing. I set $padding=8;, tested from 1 to 50. Results of 1~9, 16, 27, 39 and 42 are 6 chars, others are 7 chars.

id     result
1	roa8l2
2	jxmktn
3	71f8bj
4	i9n61s
5	dq1gvt
6	okj96f
7	mr3zyb
8	qbvze1
9	r3lelx
10	25b5hpw
11	m5qiq92
12	2la55op
13	r433th3
14	2tv9uax
15	mjpk6hv
16	atao75
17	r6ojucu
18	mk1e7lm
19	oed6r5s
20	2g6741w
21	mks9ywf
22	2lbcrtn
23	r2tu8c1
24	m7rc3th
25	mjo6fx4
26	ogmiark
27	vuf6sq
28	d5vli7j
29	o3p9mes
30	mlxy1jv
31	drqvf9f
32	rffe9hp
33	r7uf1rj
34	2fjzl4s
35	2z2kpbw
36	o1ts189
37	m3qauie
38	ozfof3i
39	y9oa1l
40	otdzusg
41	29ssayc
42	vcvrho

I decided to use HashIds for php instead, which can generate fixed length key easily.

There are many implementations of HashIds.