A single-file url shortener

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• One file

Requirements:

• PHP
• mysqli
• htaccess

Installation

1. Create a database.
2. Run the setup.sql and confirm that a table called link was created.
3. Add the .htaccess and index.php files to the webroot. Visiting your web root with no query args or path should return 404. It's working!

Instructions

Shorten a url

• Visit yourdomain.com?url=url-to-encode where url-to-encode is the url you want to encode e.g. yourdomain.com?url=https://twitter.com/gelform.
• You should see a shortened url e.g. yourdomain.com/1aw3se4dr5t.

Using a shortened url

• Visiting a shortened url e.g. yourdomain.com/1aw3se4dr5t will redirect you to the original url e.g. https://twitter.com/gelform with a 301 (permanent redirect).