Posted by Vhit on 12/30/05 07:13

<alt.html , Rob McAninch , rob_13@excite.com>
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<Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:57:26 -0500>

> > I sometimes I post or email a link to a page on my web site. I would
> > like to make it as short as possible [...] Any suggestions?
>
> Well if you do this with a lot of links. Run them through a database.
>
> e.g. example.com/link?0001
>
> Where 0001 gets looked up in a database for its actual location. You
> could do it with Perl/PHP and MySQL or perhaps a simpler database or
> even a flat text file
>

(below) I started at 1000000 and used flatfiles .

Its not a high traffic website and no need to use mysql at this stage .


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