Comments on: Free PHP URL shortener script that kicks ass

By: Gaurav Dadhania

Gaurav Dadhania — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:18:07 +0000

Thanks a lot Brian, the script works like a charm. Added a password field to prevent misuse

@Gabriel Thanks for that pointer, totally ignored the tags!

By: Mo

Mo — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:26:20 +0000

Excellent script! Question – how to integrate CAPTCHA? I pulled it down because of a lot of requests in a short period of time.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:07:06 +0000

So where should the php start and end tags be?

I get a 500 error when I put in on my domain off a sub directory, but couldnt seem to be able to load it.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Fri, 28 May 2010 07:34:55 +0000

Steve, Paul: I ran into the same problem and finally found what’s causing it. Check the config.php, redirect.php and shorten.php files, they are missing some start and end PHP tags just make sure you have them everywhere and it will start working.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:17:43 +0000

Am I missing something? I installed on my webserver (without any problems) however when I enter a URL in the form, nothing happens. The page reloads and the form/box clears.

I tried on the sample form here on this site, and am getting the same results. I’ve tried with IE 7, IE 8, Firefox and Chrome.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:57:52 +0000

@Steve same problem here.
Using PHP5.2 on CentOS

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:30:59 +0000

When i go to shorten a URL, it’s just writing the source of shorten.php into the textbox instead of returning the shortURL. Any ideas what I’ve done wrong?

By: Url Shortening

Url Shortening — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:21:24 +0000

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By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:05:22 +0000

Hello,

Firstly, many thanks to the OP for this script, works great.

One question however… It appears that the URLs stored in my database are then subsequently referred to in the ID field, which is defined as an INT(10) datatype. If this script does indeed generate shortened URLS that end alphanumeric, how can this data be stored in this field?

Or perhaps I’m being really stupid here…

Thanks!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:41:21 +0000

I like your call to LOCK TABLES, and consequently, UNLOCK TABLEs =) .. I used PHP to lock the table via usleep(n), where n is something like 3,000. Urlshorts.info... It still needs tracking implementation, and I'm thinking of open-sourcing it.