tinyurl (small url, short url) script

[ryoh]

Hi all,

Has anyone out there developed a tinyurl script that runs on cf? There are several version availble out there for php, but my ISP's set up has CF and PHP mutually-exclusive from each other on the same server. Basically, I want to be able to turn an URL like http://www.mydomain.com/query.cfm?id=54687856456454545645645624564564234544sd54fdsfw5e4r654265445623... into http://www.mydomain.com/123.

Can anyone please help? Thank you very much.

[MikerRoo]

Check out the tinyURL cfc.

[ryoh]

MikerRoo,

Thank you for the reply. Will it return an URL with the tinyurl.com domain name or my own domain name?

[MikerRoo]

It uses tinyurl.com.

It should be pretty simple to roll your own tiny url generator: You just need one DB table and two functions.

Keep in mind that studies show it is usually better to use short, understandable urls like: http://mysite.com/history/sernum/1234?page=2 .