artoodetoo/urly

Minimum viable URL shortener class

Urly - Minimum viable URL shortener

Do you want to encode URLs like tinyurl.com does?
This is helper tool for you., _(*1)

Features

Urly uses PDO interface to store URLs. Just refer to your existing connection., _(*2)

Optionally you can specify table name, key encode base and XOR mask., _(*3)

Access methods are quite obvious: set($url) and get($key)., _(*4)

Install

To install with composer:, _(*5)

composer require artoodetoo/urly

Required table structure:, _(*6)

CREATE TABLE `urly` (
  `id` int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `url` varchar(1000) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
)

Basic Usage

Save URL and het encoded key:, _(*7)

$db = new \PDO(
    'mysql:dbname=homestead;host=127.0.0.1;charset=utf8',
    'homestead', 
    'secret'
);

// Set 62 base to get alfa-numeric key in both cases and 
// some magic number to make key sequence be less predictable
$shortener = new \R2\Utility\Urly($db, 'my_urly', 62, 990749);

$key = $shortener->set('http://localhost/test.txt');
echo 'http://go.to/'.$key."\n"; // Something like 'http://go.to/49Jz'

Get URL by key:, _(*8)

echo $shortener->get('49Jz'); // Saved URL or empty string if not found

License

The Urly is open-source software, licensed under the MIT license, _(*9)