You know tinyurl, googl and adfly well been studying these sites and I was able to come up with a url shortener that can help serve Nigerians better because I am a Nigerian! I built this service from scratch just to make it original! Please just for fun and testing purpose I will be glad if you use this service to share links with your friends!
features
- turn long url to short easy url that u can share even over telephone call.
- correct title for original link when you share/visit short link.
- no need to wait 5 seconds before skipping ads(like annoying adfly).
-share links to Facebook and Twitter easy after shortening.

More features to come as we show interest and support.
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I just checked out ur url shortener, not bad. You mind if i say a thing or two?

patrickojeh:
I just checked out ur url shortener, not bad. You mind if i say a thing or two?

i don't mind at all,

directonpc:
i don't mind at all,

Just some minor things i noticed... The gif inside the container with a class of jumbotron causes the div to flunctuate in height, which obviously doesnt seem so nice. You could create a div that has the gif and then position it absolute. Secondly, you're not checking for blank fields before going ahead with the gif. What i'd consider most important is, you're not verifying for valid urls before going ahead with rewriting the url which isn't cool.
Aside that, great job. I could help check for more bugs...whatever you say man.

patrickojeh:

Just some minor things i noticed... The gif inside the container with a class of jumbotron causes the div to flunctuate in height, which obviously doesnt seem so nice. You could create a div that has the gif and then position it absolute. Secondly, you're not checking for blank fields before going ahead with the gif. What i'd consider most important is, you're not verifying for valid urls before going ahead with rewriting the url which isn't cool.
Aside that, great job. I could help check for more bugs...whatever you say man.

Thanks man will see to all the things you pointed out! This is a test run of the service if it gets enough interest I will launch the full thing! And in that final release things will be more stable! U can check for more bugs and report back! Thanks again

directonpc:

Thanks man will see to all the things you pointed out! This is a test run of the service if it gets enough interest I will launch the full thing! And in that final release things will be more stable! U can check for more bugs and report back! Thanks again

Ok. You didn’t specify a doctype. After result from the ajax request request url is shown, the main text-box for shortening url doesn’t work. The result url page form that shows the shortened url should have a readonly property...as in "<input type="text" readonly/>". Not compulsory tho.
You should also should direct all external requests coming to /engine.php, back to the index, or better still a 404.

patrickojeh:

Ok. You didn’t specify a doctype. After result from the ajax request request url is shown, the main text-box for shortening url doesn’t work. The result url page form that shows the shortened url should have a readonly property...as in "<input type="text" readonly/>". Not compulsory tho.
You should also should direct all external requests coming to /engine.php, back to the index, or better still a 404.

can't make that text field readonly.
Having direct access to engine won't hurt if the file is well secured!
Will take other points into consideration. Thanks

i tried this, nice but you have to do 1 thing, set seconds for ads to switch to main redirect and not giving chance to visitors to click on skip themself

you really tried guy.... one of the things I noticed is that you dont validate d url field before shortenung the long url to short one..
2. one of the factors that ppl look into before using a link shortener is the number of characters in the shortened url should they decide to share such links,from your own its 18 characters without http/https protocol.. http://yahoo.com for example is 17 characters shortened to 18 characters I do hope you understand this. will shorten to 11 characters so der will b stiff competition just be prepared for it. ds are some of the researches I made when I started this same application. I had to stop after finishing the core shortening module...
then make sure you gt a domain name with a short domain name as much as possible....
we can hook up still need to ask some few questions. though still planning to incorporate da into my commenting API application...

Danyl:
you really tried guy.... one of the things I noticed is that you dont validate d url field before shortenung the long url to short one..
2. one of the factors that ppl look into before using a link shortener is the number of characters in the shortened url should they decide to share such links,from your own its 18 characters without http/https protocol.. http://yahoo.com for example is 17 characters shortened to 18 characters I do hope you understand this. will shorten to 11 characters so der will b stiff competition just be prepared for it. ds are some of the researches I made when I started this same application. I had to stop after finishing the core shortening module...
then make sure you gt a domain name with a short domain name as much as possible....
we can hook up still need to ask some few questions. though still planning to incorporate da into my commenting API application...

thanks for your review, I will fix or point noted in next update to the script! And if I will ever launch this product officially I will get a super short domain name. That's once more: am at www.facebook.com/aboyipius

Tassembly:
i tried this, nice but you have to do 1 thing, set seconds for ads to switch to main redirect and not giving chance to visitors to click on skip themself

there is a skip ad there! The site shouldn't auto redirect because I plan to integrate a system where users that shorten links can make money off their links too.