With Obscure Your Links you may obscure internal and external links. There are two obfuscation methods: manual and automatic redirections. With the manual method, you can manually obscure certain links. The linking is done via a self-selected alias. In the automatic method, all links by a specific domain are completely obscured and automatically redirected via an additional script.

 

Manual Redirection

Using the settings of the plugin you may define the desired alias and the real link. For each forwarding, you must use a new line.

Syntax [ALIAS][PIPE Symbol][Forwarding to URL]

Example:

12345|http://www.kubik-rubik.de
67890|https://kubik-rubik.de

You may set a link with desired options (new window, nofollow-attribute, title) to an alias. If this alias link is called, OYL will automatically forward to the defined site.

There are two ways of linking. If you select the query method, then you can use the aliases with the query function call (http://www.your-website.com/?QUERYSTRING=ALIAS). The query string is by default oyl, but can be set individually. This option has to be selected if mod_rewrite (.htaccess) is not used. If mod-rewrite (.htaccess) is enabled, then the aliases can also be directly addressed: http://www.eigene-website.de/ALIAS (no question mark). Therefore, the query method has to be disabled.

In the example above the plugin would forward the link http://www.your-website.com/12345 (with query method: http://www.your-website.com/?oyl=12345) to http://www.kubik-rubik.de and so on.

 

Automatic redirection

With this method, links to specific domains are obscured automatically. The Blowfish algorithm is used for the obfuscation.

Syntax [DOMAIN]

Example:

amazon.com
google.com
ebay.com

If you now set any link to one of the specified domains, it is obscured and automatically redirected via an additional script. You also can use the list as a white list (all external links are obscured except the list entries).

 

The security token is needed for the Blowfish algorithm and is a required field. You don't have to remember the token.

It can't be easier to obscure your links!

 

Obscures internal and external links - sets up redirection for long URLs

Plugin: OYL - Obscure Your Links
Function: With this plugin links can be obscured. You can also use it to shorten (example: web code) long URLs.
Languages: English and German

With this plugin you may obscure internal and external links. There are two obfuscation methods: manual and automatic redirections. With the manual method you can manually obscure certain links. The linking is done via a self-selected alias. In the automatic method, all links by a specific domain are completely obscured and automatically redirected via an additional script.

Of course, the plugin can also be used for internal redirects. So you can build up a webcode system. Long URLs can be called with short aliases. The web code can be distributed easily and comfortably in forums, etc..

In the manual method you can also specify whether you want to call the aliases via a query. This is necessary if mod_rewrite (.htaccess) is not activated. If you want to call the aliases directly, then you have to activate mod_rewrite.

In version 1.7-2 a second method was added. It allows fully automatic redirections of links to domains that have been previously defined in the settings of the plugin. The plugin will find all links of the specified domains on the loaded side and will convert them automatically. For the concealment the Blowfish algorithm is used. The link is converted by an additional script and afterwards redirected. The Blowfish algorithm requires a security token for the concealment. Without the security token the decryption of the encrypted links is not possible.

In version 1.7-3 another option was added: "Obscure all external links." This option allows you to obscure all external links automatically. The blacklist turns then to a white list. All links from domains that are entered in the list are not obscured!

On 28 January 2012 version 2.5-1 for Joomla! 2.5 was released.

Features

• Obscure internal and external links - call is done by an alias
• Completely automatic obfuscation of links that lead to certain domains
• Automatic obfuscation of all external links (with whitelist feature)
• Set up redirects using short pregnant codes at long URLs
• No limitation at the number of redirects
• Query method
• Query can be set manually
• Individual security token for Blowfish algorithm
• Languages: English and German