/urlshortener

A very simple URL shortener website.

Primary LanguagePHP

URL Shortener

Turn long URLs into shorter, more sharable ones.

The current environment variables are set up to work with the domain http://urlshortener.dev for local development. The entry point for the app is public/index.php. There is an included .htaccess (copied from Laravel) which should enable mod_rewrite, or you can use the nginx equivalent.

The app and database settings are all stored in .env.php.

The current environment is set to development so all php errors will be shown. Change the environment (in .env.php) to production to disable these.

Database set up script

CREATE TABLE `urls` (
  `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `url` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `path` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `timestamp` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `url` (`url`),
  UNIQUE KEY `shortened` (`path`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin;

Testing

PHPUnit, Selenium and the Firefox webdriver are used for testing. These will all need to be installed and configured to run the tests. Note: running the tests will also clear the development database.