That’s right. And it’s URL is bloq.in. I like to experiment with the scripts that other developers create and PHPurl is an awesome one. Written by Nile Flores, it’s a simple script that does exactly what you need it to do: shorten your URL. It also has the nice feature of allowing you to set a keyword for the URL you are shortening. For example, if the link is about the late Michael Jackson (we miss you, MJ), then your URL would be something like “http://bloq.in/michaeljackson“. If a keyword has already been used, you will be prompted to enter something else. Simple and awesome.
The other beauty of Bloq.in and PHPurl is that instead of using a random 3 or 4 characters as the URL, it goes by single digits counting up from 1. So until it reaches the 1,000′s, the URL is gonna be short and sweet (unless you use some /longobnoxioustaginstead).
The admin panel is also fantastic. It shows the amount of hits for each link users have added, which IP each link was posted from and you can also create new links and edit existing ones.
Making it all look purdy
I’m the type that likes to redesign everything to my liking and PHPurl wasn’t going to escape from my web developer clutches. So I took it upon myself to redesign the administrator panel, as well as the front-end so that everything matched Bloqhead.com.
Redesigned PHPurl admin panel
So there you have it. A plug for my new URL shortener Bloq.in and a small review for PHPurl.
Update: In regards to the delete checkbox, I was an idiot and somehow removed the ‘Delete’ button from the top of the form. I re-added it and now the single delete checkboxes work as expected.
Thank you for the plug and the review for PHPurl. The motivation for the simple backend was to allow things like this. It is nice to see people harness that and design it to what they liked. I have found a lot of developers and designers like to do that with scripts, so that is how I design my scripts.
I will be designing a WordPress plugin to go hand-in-hand with the script so you will be able to plug in your Short url script choice if it is a PHPurl based script.
I think it’s a great script. I figured that was the reason you left it simple and that’s why I took it upon myself to make it match my website. I changed some of your php to my liking also, but only really the HTML it would echo out when something was submitted, changed, etc. I also made the nav into a
ul.The only thing I was confused by was that each link on the admin panel has a check box for deleting single or multiple ones, but when I ticked a few and clicked ‘delete all’, it deleted ALL of them (even the unticked ones). Maybe I removed a button during my tweaking but I don’t recall. That threw me off a bit. Luckily at the time I only had a few links on there so I was able to manually enter them, but it would’ve been disastrous if I had 100 or more.