How can I forward a dynamic URL to twitter using .htaccess or PHP?

Question

I need to rewrite a dynamic URL. The content myurl and mytext is always different and should be insert in the "text" and "url" from the Twitter string.

This is the string:

http://example.com/share/?myurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com&mytext=helloworld
   /* forward to: */
http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?related=Example%3Aname&text=helloworld&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com&via=example

How can that be made? (I browsed the .htaccess suggestions but couldn't find a solution for my specific problem.)

Answer 1

Does your server support PHP?

You could just put something like the following in a PHP file:

Header("Location: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?related=Example%3Aname&text=$_GET['mytext']&url=$_GET['myurl']&via=example");

Answer 2

It will be more efficient to handle it with rewrite Rules.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^myurl=(.*)&mytext=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?related=Example%3Aname&text=%2&url=%1&via=example [R,L]

If you want this to be permanent redirect then replace R with R=301.

With permanent redirects, these links will always be redirected by browser and your server will have to deal with less traffic if that is desired.