# Simple-PHP-URL-Shortener A Simple PHP Script for URL shortening. This script is Open Source, please feel free to contribute written by Yusha /* Author: Yusha Y. Web: www.yusha.ca */ Installation: Create a database with a user and run this sql `CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `url_shorten` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, `url` tinytext NOT NULL, `short_code` varchar(50) NOT NULL, `hits` int(11) NOT NULL, `added_date` timestamp NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=1 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; ` Copy the index.php file to your domain or subdomain root directory and change the db name, username and password. You can add additional protection to make the page private.