这是我最初的想法，可以做更多的思考，或者做一些模拟，看看是否有效或需要改进:

我的答案是记住数据库中的长URL，并使用ID 0到999999999999999999(或所需的任意大的数字)。

但是ID 0到999999999999999999可能是个问题，因为

如果我们使用十六进制，甚至base62或base64，它可以更短。(base64就像YouTube使用A-Z A-Z 0-9 _和-) 如果它从0均匀地增加到999999999999999999，那么黑客就可以按照这个顺序访问它们，并知道人们相互发送的url，所以这可能是一个隐私问题

我们可以这样做:

have one server allocate 0 to 999 to one server, Server A, so now Server A has 1000 of such IDs. So if there are 20 or 200 servers constantly wanting new IDs, it doesn't have to keep asking for each new ID, but rather asking once for 1000 IDs for the ID 1, for example, reverse the bits. So 000...00000001 becomes 10000...000, so that when converted to base64, it will be non-uniformly increasing IDs each time. use XOR to flip the bits for the final IDs. For example, XOR with 0xD5AA96...2373 (like a secret key), and the some bits will be flipped. (whenever the secret key has the 1 bit on, it will flip the bit of the ID). This will make the IDs even harder to guess and appear more random

按照这种方案，分配id的单个服务器可以组成id，请求分配id的20或200个服务器也可以组成id。分配服务器必须使用锁/信号量来防止两个请求服务器获得相同的批处理(或者如果它一次接受一个连接，这已经解决了问题)。因此，我们不希望等待分配的队列太长。所以这就是为什么一次分配1000或10000个可以解决问题。

不知道是否有人会发现这个有用-它更像是一个“hack n斜杠”的方法，但如果你只想要特定的字符，它很简单，工作得很好。

$dictionary = "abcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz23456789";
$dictionary = str_split($dictionary);

// Encode
$str_id = '';
$base = count($dictionary);

while($id > 0) {
    $rem = $id % $base;
    $id = ($id - $rem) / $base;
    $str_id .= $dictionary[$rem];
}


// Decode
$id_ar = str_split($str_id);
$id = 0;

for($i = count($id_ar); $i > 0; $i--) {
    $id += array_search($id_ar[$i-1], $dictionary) * pow($base, $i - 1);
} 

你是故意省略O 0和i的吗?

我刚刚基于Ryan的解决方案创建了一个PHP类。

<?php

    $shorty = new App_Shorty();

    echo 'ID: ' . 1000;
    echo '<br/> Short link: ' . $shorty->encode(1000);
    echo '<br/> Decoded Short Link: ' . $shorty->decode($shorty->encode(1000));


    /**
     * A nice shorting class based on Ryan Charmley's suggestion see the link on Stack Overflow below.
     * @author Svetoslav Marinov (Slavi) | http://WebWeb.ca
     * @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/742013/how-to-code-a-url-shortener/10386945#10386945
     */
    class App_Shorty {
        /**
         * Explicitly omitted: i, o, 1, 0 because they are confusing. Also use only lowercase ... as
         * dictating this over the phone might be tough.
         * @var string
         */
        private $dictionary = "abcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz23456789";
        private $dictionary_array = array();

        public function __construct() {
            $this->dictionary_array = str_split($this->dictionary);
        }

        /**
         * Gets ID and converts it into a string.
         * @param int $id
         */
        public function encode($id) {
            $str_id = '';
            $base = count($this->dictionary_array);

            while ($id > 0) {
                $rem = $id % $base;
                $id = ($id - $rem) / $base;
                $str_id .= $this->dictionary_array[$rem];
            }

            return $str_id;
        }

        /**
         * Converts /abc into an integer ID
         * @param string
         * @return int $id
         */
        public function decode($str_id) {
            $id = 0;
            $id_ar = str_split($str_id);
            $base = count($this->dictionary_array);

            for ($i = count($id_ar); $i > 0; $i--) {
                $id += array_search($id_ar[$i - 1], $this->dictionary_array) * pow($base, $i - 1);
            }
            return $id;
        }
    }
?>

我的方法是:获取数据库ID，然后对其进行Base36编码。我不会同时使用大写字母和小写字母，因为这会使通过电话传输这些url成为一场噩梦，但您当然可以轻松地将该功能扩展为62 en/解码器。

为什么要使用哈希呢?

您只需将自动递增值简单地转换为字母数字值。你可以通过使用一些基数转换很容易做到这一点。假设您的字符空间(a-z, a-z, 0-9等)有62个字符，将id转换为以40为基数的数字并使用这些字符作为数字。

这是我的PHP 5类。

<?php
class Bijective
{
    public $dictionary = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->dictionary = str_split($this->dictionary);
    }

    public function encode($i)
    {
        if ($i == 0)
        return $this->dictionary[0];

        $result = '';
        $base = count($this->dictionary);

        while ($i > 0)
        {
            $result[] = $this->dictionary[($i % $base)];
            $i = floor($i / $base);
        }

        $result = array_reverse($result);

        return join("", $result);
    }

    public function decode($input)
    {
        $i = 0;
        $base = count($this->dictionary);

        $input = str_split($input);

        foreach($input as $char)
        {
            $pos = array_search($char, $this->dictionary);

            $i = $i * $base + $pos;
        }

        return $i;
    }
}