Side Project
Shrinking your long URLs
Friday February 13, 2009 | Filed in: Side projects
I have recently begun to teach myself PHP through a wonderful course on Lynda.com in some of my ‘spare time.’
In the process I thought it would be a good idea to give myself a project to use as a testing ground for my new found, limited PHP knowledge. I set out to make a URL shortening service for myself. Rather than reinvent the wheel I used a little bit of open source code as a base and built up from there.
After a couple of days of work I ended up with Thurly. Hop on over and check it out. I’d love to get some feedback on it. I will probably tweak it over time and may even add more functionality. For not though it offers a web site for shortening URLs, a back-end API for applications and other sites, and a boomarklet to make shortening your URLs easy to do on the fly.
Feel free to use Thurly for your projects, Twitter, other social networking, whatever you like.
In the process I thought it would be a good idea to give myself a project to use as a testing ground for my new found, limited PHP knowledge. I set out to make a URL shortening service for myself. Rather than reinvent the wheel I used a little bit of open source code as a base and built up from there.
After a couple of days of work I ended up with Thurly. Hop on over and check it out. I’d love to get some feedback on it. I will probably tweak it over time and may even add more functionality. For not though it offers a web site for shortening URLs, a back-end API for applications and other sites, and a boomarklet to make shortening your URLs easy to do on the fly.
Feel free to use Thurly for your projects, Twitter, other social networking, whatever you like.