Base10 to base64 url shortening

Question

I\'m coding an url shortener function for a project in which I\'m learning php, here is the code (btw I suppose that global here is not a good thing to do :P):<

Answer 1

These two functions are very convenient, thanks to @malhal:

function shorten_int($id)
{
    $id=dechex($id);
    $id=strlen($id)%2===0?hex2bin($id):hex2bin('0'.$id);
    $id=base64_encode($id);
    $id=strtr($id, array('/'=>'_', '+'=>'-', '='=>''));
    return $id;
}

function unshorten_int($id)
{
    $id=strtr($id, array('-'=>'+', '_'=>'/'));
    $id=base64_decode($id);
    $id=bin2hex($id);
    return base_convert($id, 16, 10);
}

echo shorten_int(43121111)."\n";
echo unshorten_int(shorten_int(43121111))."\n";