I have a simple PHP website. Let's call it youtubex.com. I want to redirect youtubex URLs (in the format shown on STEP2) to my website in the format shown on STEP3. Here, I am using YouTube, just for illustration.
STEP1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU
STEP2: https://www.youtubex.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU
STEP3: https://www.youtubex.com/#url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU
STEP1 shows any desired URL. STEP2 shows the same URL from STEP1 with youtubex as domain. STEP3 shows the final required URL. I am trying to redirect STEP2 to STEP3.
I tried finding some solutions to this on the internet and SO, but, none help. Here is one.
This should do the work:
RedirectMatch 301 /watch$ https://www.youtubex.com/#url=https://www.youtube.com/watch
An inefficient but full php solution can be using the location header in php :
$vid = $_GET['v']
if($vid){ header("location:https://www.youtubex.com/#url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$vid");
}
by the way you can't get the text after the hash mark in php because it is not sent to the server.
javascript can do it in a more neat way without the second reload by checking window.location.href to see if the hash does not exist already and then get the v parameter in url then change url without refreshing the page by using window.history.pushState({"html":response.html,"pageTitle":response.pageTitle},"", urlPath);
using php str_replace and header :
$step2_url = "https://www.youtubex.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU";
$part2_url = str_replace("youtubex","youtube",$step2_url);//the output is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU
$step3_url = "https://www.youtubex.com/#url=".$part2_url; //the output is : https://www.youtubex.com/#url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj62iuaKAhU
now you have the final url , simply redirect
header($step3_url);