Category: PHP Script Codes > LinkShort v3.0
What is LinkShort? LinkShort is a url shortening/masking application written in php and making use of mod_rewrite. It allows for people to take exceedingly long urls and shorten them to something that will not break in emails. It allows users to mask urls and hide such things as affiliate links. For instance, a user has a url from a site that looks like this

http://www.somesite.com/index.php?a=1&id=asass7ds76756saf8df9g0dhfg87s6df89s8df8&mod=go&search=some+search+phrase+bla+blah

it is so super long and incredulous to look at. By using LinkShort the user can turn that link into

http://usersdomain.com/dJt6

A much more pleasant url to look at. Not only does this allow for link masking, it allows registered users to track their link activity.