Looking for a URL shortening script

[Whatthe?]

Can any one suggest one... something like what the others have? I have seem to be having prob's with some of my links not working... and getting warnings from them, so I thought I would just use a domain that is somewhat short for this.

Would be nice if it had some type of tracking. What are some options that are GOOD for this purpose.

 

[sksugo]

bit.ly is a good website for that... if you are talking about an actual script, I could probably code one in php but it would require sending info to and from a database, and probably take too long as I am super busy with other things at the moment.

If you are trying to make ur own URL shortening script, you will need to:

-Use the site to transform original URL to shortened one.. while storing it in a database
-When a user inputs the shortened URL it will bring them to a page on the URL shortener website.
-When the user visits the page from the shortened URL, the website will recognize this and find the re-directing URL from the database.
-Website will re-direct that person to the proper website.

Thats my $.02

 

[Whatthe?]

Thanks for the reply KeeperOfScript, do you know of any scripts off the shelve that can handle this? I will continue to use bit.ly, but I am looking for something down the road that I can host.

 

[skorot]

Back in the days I was using a script called shorty.

Just google: get-shorty url
and it's second hit

 

[Whatthe?]

Back in the days I was using a script called shorty.

Just google: get-shorty url
and it's second hit

Thanks... I did a google... seems alittle out of date but I did find these 2

http://yourls.org
http://www.redspiral.net/spiralurl

Any one try either of these ones? Both look promising, will try to play with them next week, but if any one has any comments, pls share.