Comments on: Creating a TinyURL Clone

By: Milos M.

Milos M. — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:53:24 +0000

I was create all like it is in tut.. Only table name isnt turl, its 001.
PHP code is in go.php and form is in start.html

In php code action=”go.php”.
When i start domain.com/start.html its ok..
when click to shorten back url in new windows is root (domain.com)..
Where d fak is error??

By: david

david — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:49:10 +0000

Oh and also make sure it has http:// and a . in it otherwise display an error?

By: david

david — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:47:26 +0000

Hi, can you also add alias in this as well? (eg http://website.com/random goes to http://website1.com)

By: Rad

Rad — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:46:22 +0000

Hi,
It’s really nice work , however I noticed something wrong happens when using www in my site url , for example http://mysite.com/123 will always work great but http://www.mysite.com/123 may work and may not , I think there is something to do with .htaccess file to force http://www.mysite.com/123 to http://mysite.com/123 but i’m very bad in regEx and in editing .htaccess

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:08:41 +0000

hey, you say you can write it like this, exempel.com/xxxxxx but can you also write it like this xxxxxx.exempel.com then?

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:33:31 +0000

You can always add some kind of CAPTCHA system.

By: Jeevan

Jeevan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:06:44 +0000

How about the huge issue with spamming bots? How do you block them?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:47:47 +0000

Sorry about that. The regex should actually be \/([0-9a-z]+)$. The + means one or more characters.

By: Charly

Charly — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:24:45 +0000

Found out following:

When using this : RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/([0-9a-z]{2})$ [NC]
so adding the {2} it will work for e.g. 10 or 15 or 1b. But 1 of 5 or b or 130 still does not work

By: Charly

Charly — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:57:14 +0000

Hi!
Got some problems with the rewrite engine.
It only seems to allow characters 0-9 and a-z, but not e.g. 10 or 15. Then I just get page not found errors.
I’ve chanched your script a bit to also add hits when a shortened url is visited and the ones that give errors are also not updated for a hit.
Any suggestions?