As I was building a special software for a client, I realized I needed a way to transform numeric ID into short alphanumeric case sensitive ID. After looking into the web, I found a great script that accomplished that purpose. I knew YouTube and many other services for URL shortening use this technique, so I asked myself, wouldn't it be great if anyone could have a personal URL Shortener in their site? Then, in 4 hours I made a little clone of a very famous URL shortener service. It's not a perfect clone, but it works great.
If you want to use this software, first you need a server that runs:
Then you can follow these instructions:
I have done most of the end-user side (front-end) but I haven't made any admin side (back-end), so if you want to contribute and make a good admin [interface?] to see statistics or add more functionality like an admin panel that could help me add, modify, remove anything and block IPs, you are welcome; I just don't have the time right now and I use a SQL GUI for this purpose.
If you're interested in help improving this software, right now I’m using Google Code to host this project so you can join anytime. http://code.google.com/p/php-url-shortener/
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and /or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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