Is there a hook that lets me filter the original long url that the user enters?

[Spatino19]

I am trying to make a plugin and i checked the hook list several times and tried different filters but none have worked.

I want to modify the original long url the user enters. The one url that the short url will redirect to

So with a filter I can add anything as a prefix to the original url
For example, "example.com/" can is the prefix and the user enters "text" then with the filter it creates the long url "example.com/text" that will be stored in the database and later used as the redirect url for the short url

[ozh]

The function called when shortening a new URL is yourls_add_new_link()

Here, there isn't indeed a straightforward $url = yourls_apply_filter("some_hook", $url);
That might be added, for instance after the yourls_do_action( 'pre_add_new_link', $url, $keyword, $title ); to filter the submitted URL, keyword and title.

An easy alternative is to hook to one of the numerous filters already called within this function or within functions called by this function (for instance yourls_sanitize_url() ...)

[luanfernandes]

oh I see. Well, still no luck with it.. hopefully I will figure it out soon. Thanks.

[Spatino19]

I was just trying to work on it. So, should it be something like this?

yourls_add_filter('yourls_sanatize_url', 'my_own_function' );

function my_own_function($unsafe_url) {
	$unsafe_url = "prefix" . $unsafe_url;
	
	return $unsafe_url;
}

I am just starting to learn how to code in general so I have no experience at all so I could be making newbie mistakes

[ozh]

I suggest you start with

• reading https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS/wiki/How-to-make-Plugins
• checking a few simple plugins on https://github.com/YOURLS/awesome-yourls to get the grasps of it
• eventually checking https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS/wiki/Possible-With-A-Plugin#find-a-plugin-coder if it's not within your reach

[Spatino19]

@luanfernandes were you able to do it? I have been trying for days and I can't add a prefix. I have been reading the tutorials and I have been using a similar structure to yourls-keyword-prefix but for some reason there's no prefix yet.

[luanfernandes]

No I was not. I didn't have much time to try other stuff yet though