Discussion on: php link shortener (simplelink)

[Siarhei Siniak]

1. links 1.1. github.com/topics/url-shortener 1.2. github.com/luke10x/urlshortnr 1.3. github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS 1.4. github.com/738/awesome-url-shortener 1.5. polrproject.org/ 1.5.1. demo.polr.me/shorten 1.5.2. docs.polrproject.org/en/latest/use... 1.5.3. github.com/cydrobolt/polr 1.5.4. github.com/fauskanger/mypolr 1.5.5. github.com/ajanvier/docker-polr a docker image, a single onliner to spawn the service. 1.6. github.blog/2011-11-10-git-io-gith... towardsdatascience.com/github-url-... interesting interface via curl, yet only restricted to github.com urls.
2. Well, there're pretty quite many url shorteners on github. polr is open source, written in PHP, has a docker image that gives a simple one liner to make it running. If you are really concerned with MySQL configuration, make sense just to refactor that project to use some in memory database, reddis perhaps.