Masking URLs With PHP

Question

Is there any way to mask URLs with PHP or something else? I want to use a custom domain with goo.gl, basically I want to be able to send someone to http://l.bearce.me/iS7tz and have them reidrect to http://goo.gl/iS7tz automatically.

I swear I've seen something like this before, but I can't remember the name of it.

Answer 1

You mean this? (URL cloaking, plain HTML with onclick event)

<a href="http://google.com" onclick="window.location='http://yahoo.com';return false;">Google</a>

Or this? (HTTP redirect)

<?php
// get $path form the url (I suppose you're using mod_rewrite or similar)
$path =  $_GET['some_url_var'];

header("location: http://goo.gl/$path"); // redirect
?>