Url Shortener

This service shortens long URLs and verifies each submission with a reputable antivirus provider. Users can then share these links on social media or save them as QR codes. Deferred redirects can increase the overall revenue.

Features

• Unlimited short URLs
• Deferred redirect
• URL diagnostic
• Auto-copy button
• QR code generation
• Social Sharing
• Responsive UI
• Developer API
• Admin panel

Applications demo

Online Demo

Documentation

Online Documentation

Requirements

Download and upload the https://short.php8developer.com/requirements.php (copy and open in a new tab) file to your web server and run it via a browser to see whether you can run URL Shortener on your server.

Developer API

Developers can use the API to shorten long URLs. Example Request https://short.php8developer.com/api?url=http%3A%2F%2Fphp8developer.com Response {"long":"http:\/\/php8developer.com","short":"https:\/\/short.php8developer.com\/pB"}

Changelog

v 1.10 – 2026.08.10

• Cloudflare Turnstile support
• Rework of the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions pages
• New Cookie Consent widget
• Support of any CMP
• Support of private shortening
• New URL validator
• Better error handling
• Revise HTTP headers used for request fingerprints
• Opt out of public CDNs in favor of local hosting
• Meta tags improvements
• Bug fixes

v 1.9 – 2026.04.08

• PHP 8.3, PHP 8.4 support
• Additional antivirus services support
• SEO rel canonical support
• Better error handling UX
• HTTP request refactoring and improvements
• Other small fixes

v 1.8 – 2024.01.05

• PHP 8.2 support
• Framework update
• Added Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions pages to meet Google Ads 16 January 2024 requirements
• Changed QR code generator provider
• Small fixes

v 1.7 – 2022.03.27

• Added possibility to restrict certain URLs
• Integrated Google Safe Browsing API

v 1.6 – 2021.09.18

• Small bug fix

v 1.5 – 2021.06.26

• Classname typo fix
• UI text bug fix

v 1.4 – 2021.06.25

• PHP 7.4/8 support
• MySQL strict mode support
• Updated theme

v 1.3 – 2019.05.30

• PHP 7.3, PHP 7.2, PHP 7.1 Support
• MySQL strict mode support

v 1.2 – 2018.02.11

• Flash clipboard replaced by javascript clipboard
• Timer on redirect page is not active when the browser tab is not active

v 1.1 – 2016.11.20

• Excluded possibility to generate short URLs from the same host. i.e. you can’t short “mydomain.com/xxx” URL if you installed script in “mydomain.com”

v 1.0 – 2016.01.10

• Updated Cookie EU Law Javascript plugin

v 0.9 – 2015.09.28

• Solution for EU cookie law

v 0.8 – 2015.03.23

• Small bug fixes

v 0.7 – 2015.02.17

• Improved URL recognition pattern

v 0.6 – 2015.02.06

• HTML, JS, PHP bug fixes

v 0.5 – 2015.01.07

• Some bug fixes

v 0.4 – 2014.06.05

• Unique title on “redirect” page
• Possibility to set a limit of requests for users
• The same URL can be shortened only once

v 0.3

• Standalone QR code generator

v 0.2

• Deferred redirect

v 0.1

• Bug fixes