Additional Charsets for YOURLS

Plugin for YOURLS 1.7.

Description

This plugin adds additional charset options that can be selected from config.php by setting the YOURLS_URL_CONVERT constant to different values. It allow allow you to provide a string as the constant value that will be used as the charset.

Installation

1. In /user/plugins, create a new folder named advanced-reserved-urls.
2. Drop these files in that directory.
3. Go to the Plugins administration page ( eg http://sho.rt/admin/plugins.php ) and activate the plugin.
4. Change YOURLS_URL_CONVERT value in config.php to select the charset you want.

Additional Charset Options

case 10:
    // Numbers Only
    $charset = '0123456789';
    
case 26:
    // Letters Only
    $charset = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
    
case 27:
    // No Vowels and No Leetspeak Vowels
    $charset = '256789bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz';
    
case 31:
    // No Vowels
    $charset = '0123456789bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz';

case 38:
    // Add "_" and "-"
    $charset = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-_';
    
case 48:
    // No Vowels and No Leetspeak Vowels (Mixed Case)
    $charset = '256789bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzBCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ';
    
case 52:
    // No Vowels (Mixed Case)
    $charset = '0123456789bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzBCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ';
    
case 64:
    // Add "_" and "-" (Mixed Case)
    $charset = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ-_';

Custom Charset

Do you want yo use your own custom charset? Simply supply a string value to the YOURLS_URL_CONVERT constant. Keep in mind that some characters are considerd reserved for URL use so this should be done with caution.

To quote section 2.3 of RFC 3986: (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt) "Characters that are allowed in a URI but do not have a reserved purpose are called unreserved. These include uppercase and lowercase letters, decimal digits, hyphen, period, underscore, and tilde."

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.