Query as Prefix

[Serverfrog]

Is it Possible to have a Query as Prefix before generated shortlink?

What i try to do:
I want to have https://example.com/watch?XXXXX where watch? is just a prefix and XXXXX are randomly generated Base62 String with a length (should be more than 4, but not 50, if you know what i mean )

Is this with YOURLS possible?

I could think a Workaround with the prefix via .htaccess but im not sure if that is possible

[ozh]

I don't understand your question, but the answer is : yes. See https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS/wiki/Possible-With-A-Plugin

[Serverfrog]

Well, the Answer was "Yhea, as a Programmer you can do things" which was not so helpfull. Especially because i don't know if its really Possible as a Plugin or do i need to Modify the Core Foles.

Ok Rephrasing was maybe the wrong words. I tried to tell you what i try to achieve, and that i don't know where i could find information about the different kinds of Action and Filters and What they do when. That is because there exist only a list Of the Names with there LineNumber where they occure without any real information about them.

The Main Problem i got was that YOURLS doesn't care about Query paramters and just throws them away. There exists a Plugin which can append the Query Parameters that YOURLS got to the URL you are redirect but not much more (and it is not what im try to do).

So now to the simple Question i tried: can you please pinpoint me to a location (beside "Read the Sourcecode") where i could find good information what i could try to implement that feature.
Feature: using the Query as ID, instead of the Path

[ozh]

You definitely don't need to modify core files and virtually everything is possible with a plugin.

2 options to find a "location where you find good information" :

• check others' plugins and how they work and code from there (particularly plugins playing with query strings)
• find a plugin coder to do it for you

I also respectfully suggest you put some more efforts into writing and proofreading your posts, which are quite hard to understand to be honest (typos, missing words and random Capitals).

[Serverfrog]

Ok.
Please understand that im not that used to write in English but thanks.

I will try to see, i think i will then use something different because it don't seem that a useful Documentation is existing beside Plugins of others as far as i understand you there.

I tried the "Discussion" section in the hope to have a more relaxed discussion where it isn't like everything is an attack on somebody but it seems it isn't

[ozh]

There really is some documentation besides all the plugins themselves.

Sorry if you felt attacked, not my intention and I don't think my messages were written this way, but to each their own I guess :)

[Serverfrog]

Na its ok now.
I was talking about exactly that documentation. To be precises about the Hook List which is just a List of the existing Hooks to the source code lines which is not really a Documentation for this kind.

I got it myself easier and programmed that thing now myself which should be the same speed as reading into that source code to find what Hook exactly i should use how it is then done.

Then the riding on how things of myself are written was also not the best kind of communication.